Knowledge and Skill Driven Manufacturing of High Value Added Products - Human Aspects
Production systems are getting more complex. Introduction of new technologies, new products and production paradigms do have an affect also on system design and how human operators collaborate with these complex intelligent systems. At the same time global competition, customers wish on personalized products, shorter life-cycles of products makes profitable automation and information management at factory floor demanding. The challenges are most important in labour intensive small series production where old fashioned ways of production is not competitive in the Western countries. Thus there is a need for new Smart Manufacturing Paradigm, to fulfil needs and to create new way of working. Authors are searching methods to create the smart manufacturing systems and enabling technologies to fulfil the needs focusing on the role of human operator. The article is based on the authors’ experience from industrial collaboration and on a literature study as well on-going feasibility studies at VTT.
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Dear authors,
Thank you for presenting your vision for the future at I*PROMS'07.
I have a couple of questions for you.
(i) Which are the main research centres in Europe (other than VTT) working in the area of human-centred automation?
(ii) How do you define context?
Many thanks,
Rossi
(Cardiff)
Dear Rossi
Question A)
The large research organisation, like Fraunhofer institute, IPA,IPK and so on, TNO, Tekniker in Spain, universities Chalmers, Lund in Sweden, just to mentioned some, it would be a long list, actually many of the I*Proms partner would be in the list
- I can provide some EU-level networks doing research on robotics and human collaboration
- SMERobot, www.smerobot.org
- PISA, www.pisa-ip.org (VTT is partner in PISA)
For information side wearit@work is one good example, how use wearable hardware
http://www.wearitatwork.com/ or in general AMI@Work
http://www.ami-communities.eu/wiki/AMI%40Work_on-line_Communities
Industustrial Ambient intelligence projects as well.
Question B)
Definition of context, we still working on it, as a draft. Our context is at the moment limited to factory work. There is two kinds of task at factory floor, manual and congnitive and we cannot or should not serapate these. Robot is a solution for manual task, machine power and the challenge is putting both human and automated device in same work space. Information, control or congnitive task is also important, it also defines the Human Machine or Technology Interaction (HMI, HTI, ..)
Juhani
We realyy need to understand human operators in planning of new production system. Our visio is that human operators stays as a key resource in manufacturing. We must just provide the human operator suitable tools to increase productive. It is task for automation of manual task and cognitive tasks. Our research main question is: How to do transition to knowledge and skill based manufacturing.
Juhani