Mind the Body: How Embodied Cognition Matters in Manufacturing

Kolbeinsson, Ari; Lindblom, Jessica

doi:10.1016/j.promfg.2015.07.576

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“…Lindblom, 2015b). Furthermore, investigating the role of the body in manual assembly from an embodied cognition perspective has been done by Kolbeinsson and Lindblom (2015) who applied an embodied interpretation to interruption management.…”

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Manufacturing in the wild – viewing human-based assembly through the lens of distributed cognition

Lindblom

Thorvald

2017

Production & Manufacturing Research

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The interdisciplinary field of cognitive science has been and is becoming increasingly central within human factors and ergonomics (HF&E) and, since at the same time, there has long been a call for a more systems perspective in the area with a somewhat wider unit of analysis. This paper argues that the theoretical framework of distributed cognition would greatly benefit the application of HF&E to manufacturing and would offer a more holistic understanding of the interactions between different entities within a greater context, including the social, cultural and materialistic. We aim to characterize and analyse manufacturing as a complex socio-technical system from a distributed cognition perspective; focusing on the use, mediation and integration of different forms of representations, tools and artefacts in this domain. We present illustrative examples from authentic manual assembly, showing the cognitively distributed nature of the work, ranging from scaffolding strategies of the individual worker to the emergent properties of a whole assembly line. The paper further proposes and provides benefits of using a distributed cognition framework as a novel approach in the toolbox for the HF&E discipline, where it may have been found before, but the application to manufacturing has been absent.

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Manufacturing in the wild – viewing human-based assembly through the lens of distributed cognition

Lindblom

Thorvald

2017

Production & Manufacturing Research

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“…It has been pointed out by several researchers that the physical body has a fundamental role and relevance for our interactions with the social and material world (e.g. Clark, 1997;Gallagher, 2005;Kolbeinsson & Lindblom, 2015;Lakoff & Johnson, 1999;Lindblom, 2015aLindblom, , 2015b. Consequently, the way we embody and interact with the external resources in our environment affects and changes the ways we perceive, act and think, offering a 'philosophy in the flesh' (Lakoff & Johnson, 1999).…”

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“…Manufacturing as a whole is a very diverse domain and this study is part of a larger research purpose of studying several kinds of manufacturing and various types of assembly processes from a more situated, embodied, and distributed cognition (DCog) perspective. Our previous work has ranged from traditional line assembly, almost of a Tayloristic (Taylor, 1911) kind Thorvald & Lindblom, 2015) and interruption management (Kolbeinsson & Lindblom, 2015;, to process oriented monitoring of machines (Andreasson, Lindblom, & Thorvald, 2017). This paper further adds to the body of work through including more complex dock assembly where the longer assembly times and varying work (as opposed to the traditional line assembly) adds to the complexity of the unit of analysis.…”

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Tool use and collaborative work of dock assembly in practice

Andreasson

Lindblom

Thorvald

2017

Production & Manufacturing Research

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In order to deepen the understanding of the intrinsic interactions and interplay between humans, tools, and environment from a systems perspective, research in the wild (RITW) approaches have gained traction during recent decades as they provide a higher ecological validity of findings. This paper presents a RITW study, investigating how assembly, in this case dock assembly of forwarders, was done in practice. As our theoretical foundation, we used the framework of distributed cognition, which is one of the main pillars of RITW. The findings are presented in narrative form, describing and highlighting that the workers achieve an efficient production outcome by being integral parts of the whole production process and doing so through coordination of activities benefitting the shared goal of the distributed socio-technical system.

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“…The social and labor incorporation of humans involves their integration into the socio-technical framework of work systems, and starts with the assessment of their possibilities of articulating a set of competences and capacities in the workplace. New paradigms of embodied or enactive cognition appear from cognitive science [ 32 ], in which it is argued that cognition is based on and deeply limited by the nature of the body of human and established from situated knowledge, more specifically the field of manufacturing systems studies aimed at conceiving manual work under the embodied mind [ 33 ]. Enactivism stresses that the beginning of intelligence is in the body in action [ 34 ].…”

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Framework for the Development of Affective and Smart Manufacturing Systems Using Sensorised Surrogate Models

Ávila-Gutiérrez

Aguayo-González

Lama-Ruiz

2021

Sensors

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Human Factor strategy and management have been affected by the incorporation of Key Enabling Technologies (KETs) of industry 4.0, whereby operator 4.0 has been configured to address the wide variety of cooperative activities and to support skills that operate in VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous) environments under the interaction with ubiquitous interfaces on real and virtual hybrid environments of cyber-physical systems. Current human Competences-Capacities that are supported by the technological enablers could result in a radically disempowered human factor. This means that in the processes of optimization and improvement of manufacturing systems from industry 4.0 to industry 5.0, it would be necessary to establish strategies for the empowerment of the human factor, which constitute symbiotic and co-evolutionary socio-technical systems through talent, sustainability, and innovation. This paper establishes a new framework for the design and development of occupational environments 5.0 for the inclusion of singularized operators 4.0, such as individuals with special capacities and talents. A case study for workers and their inclusion in employment is proposed. This model integrates intelligent and inclusive digital solutions in the current workspaces of organizations under digital transformation.

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Mind the Body: How Embodied Cognition Matters in Manufacturing

Cited by 16 publications

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Manufacturing in the wild – viewing human-based assembly through the lens of distributed cognition

Manufacturing in the wild – viewing human-based assembly through the lens of distributed cognition

Tool use and collaborative work of dock assembly in practice

Framework for the Development of Affective and Smart Manufacturing Systems Using Sensorised Surrogate Models

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