Placing the operator at the centre of Industry 4.0 design: Modelling and assessing human activities within cyber-physical systems

Fantini, Paola; Pinzone, Marta; Taisch, Marco

doi:10.1016/j.cie.2018.01.025

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“…The changes brought by Industry 4.0 could affect people greatly. To make this impact on people more visible, human-centric KPIs have been proposed [113].…”

Section: Key Performance Indicators For Industry 40mentioning

confidence: 99%

Lean Manual Assembly 4.0: A Systematic Review

2020

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In a demand context of mass customization, shifting towards the mass personalization of products, assembly operations face the trade-off between highly productive automated systems and flexible manual operators. Novel digital technologies—conceptualized as Industry 4.0—suggest the possibility of simultaneously achieving superior productivity and flexibility. This article aims to address how Industry 4.0 technologies could improve the productivity, flexibility and quality of assembly operations. A systematic literature review was carried out, including 234 peer-reviewed articles from 2010–2020. As a result, the analysis was structured addressing four sets of research questions regarding (1) assembly for mass customization; (2) Industry 4.0 and performance evaluation; (3) Lean production as a starting point for smart factories, and (4) the implications of Industry 4.0 for people in assembly operations. It was found that mass customization brings great complexity that needs to be addressed at different levels from a holistic point of view; that Industry 4.0 offers powerful tools to achieve superior productivity and flexibility in assembly; that Lean is a great starting point for implementing such changes; and that people need to be considered central to Assembly 4.0. Developing methodologies for implementing Industry 4.0 to achieve specific business goals remains an open research topic.

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“…The changes brought by Industry 4.0 could affect people greatly. To make this impact on people more visible, human-centric KPIs have been proposed [113].…”

Section: Key Performance Indicators For Industry 40mentioning

confidence: 99%

Lean Manual Assembly 4.0: A Systematic Review

2020

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“…Shop-floor assembly system design is usually required when a new manufacturing system is to be build or an existing one needs to be renewed. By placing the human in the center of the Industry 4.0 design [22], three perspectives (abstraction, decision-making, and innovativeness) as well as two components (human and CPS) constructed the analysis and design framework. Therefore, a set of key performance indicators (KPI) can be introduced to analyze and assess design scheme [22].…”

Section: Human-centered Design For Shop-floor Assemblymentioning

confidence: 99%

Anthropocentric Approach for Smart Assembly: Integration and Collaboration

Tan

Tong

et al. 2019

Journal of Robotics

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Recently, anthropocentric or human-centric approaches renewed its importance in smart manufacturing especially for assembly applications where human dexterity and informal knowledge are dispensable at present and in the near future. This paper analyzes the integration, design, and collaboration issues regarding anthropocentric researches in the past few years mainly in assembly domain. First of all, towards closed-loop system integration, the researches on integrating human in the cyber-physical system are elaborated and summarized. Then, human-centric designs (HCD) especially in shop-floor assembly field are analyzed. To emphasize human-robot hybrid assembly, several related issues including collaboration paradigm, task planning and assignment, interaction interfaces, and safety are discussed. At last, a survey on human cognitive and social limitation management is elaborated. Related research challenges and directions are discussed.

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“…Let us consider an abstract scenario of aerospace engine systems plant modified and adopted from [14]. This case study is chosen because it simulates the emerging advent in Industry 4.0, which is a collaborative production systems between human and CPS.…”

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A Meta-Model of Cyber-Physical-Social System: The CPSS Paradigm to Support Human-Machine Collaboration in Industry 4.0

Yilma

Panetto

Naudet

2019

Collaborative Networks and Digital Transformation

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The 4 th industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) heavily relying on the concept of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) has transformed the manufacturing industry into an intelligent environment. Advances in manufacturing and automation industries created hyper-connected industrial ecosystems that are not limited to smart production but also facilitate organizational integration. Hence, fostering the creation of collaborative, networked and intelligent industries. One of the emerging advances in the digital transformation of industries is the creation of environments where humans work in close collaboration with sensor enabled smart machines and robots. Particularly the close involvement of humans in such smart environments challenges system designed methodologies mainly because human aspects are not considered in CPS design frameworks. In this paper, we present an approach to support this aspect of Industry 4.0 taking a Cyber-Physical-Social System (CPSS) paradigm to incorporate human aspects with the existing notion of CPS. We propose a meta-model of CPSS that can serve as a framework to design systems involving human and CPS collaboration.

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Placing the operator at the centre of Industry 4.0 design: Modelling and assessing human activities within cyber-physical systems

Abstract: Placing the operator at the centre of Industry 4.0 design: Modelling and assessing human activities within cyber-physical systems P a ol a F a nt i ni ⇑, M a r t a P i nz on e , M a r c o Ta i s c h

Cited by 183 publications

References 40 publications

Lean Manual Assembly 4.0: A Systematic Review

Lean Manual Assembly 4.0: A Systematic Review

Anthropocentric Approach for Smart Assembly: Integration and Collaboration

A Meta-Model of Cyber-Physical-Social System: The CPSS Paradigm to Support Human-Machine Collaboration in Industry 4.0

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