Proactive Assembly Systems-Realizing the Potential of Human Collaboration With Automation

Dencker, Kerstin; Stahre, Johan; Gröndahl, Peter; Mårtensson, Lena; Lundholm, Thomas; Bruch, Jessica; Johansson, Christer

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“…Such approaches can counteract possible uncertainty caused by stochastic events (errors, breakdowns, etc.) during production [5,23]. One of the strengths of a human operator is the ability to adapt to different situations, make a decision and act upon it.…”

Section: Evolution Of the Industrial Shop-floor Operatormentioning

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“…Recurring events that negatively affect the production output demand a shop-floor with proactive ways of working and a broad understanding of the production processes, to prevent losses. A proactive approach, which is seen as a common attribute among experienced shop-floor operators, facilitates competitiveness, flexibility and extended functionality of the production systems [23]. The answers to the last of the six questions "What does it mean to work proactively and have an ability to interpret processes and relationships?"…”

Section: Work Proactively and An Ability To Interpret Processes And Rmentioning

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The future shop-floor operators, demands, requirements and interpretations

Holm

2018

Journal of Manufacturing Systems

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PreprintThis is the submitted version of a paper published in Journal of manufacturing systems.Citation for the original published paper (version of record): Holm, M. (2018) The future shop-floor operators, demands, requirements and interpretations Journal of manufacturing systems, 47: 35-42 AbstractThe evolution of production industries reveals continuous progress and development throughout the years. This evolution not only includes production methodologies and the production equipment, it also includes the working environment of the shop-floor operators. The demands faced by the shop-floor operators have developed from strictly controlled, simple and monotonic tasks to self-controlled team work requiring a holistic approach that aims at continuous improvements and achieving a high degree of flexibility, adaptability and initiative.This paper describes the evolution of the shop-floor operator, according to the research literature and interviews with production managers and HR specialists. In addition, the paper presents the response of future Swedish shop-floor operators, today's high-school students, to a description of their possible future work as shop-floor operators. The Swedish production industry competes, to a large extent, on and responds to the international market. The findings made in this paper are thus also interesting for other industries and countries acting on the international market.

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Section: Work Proactively and An Ability To Interpret Processes And Rmentioning

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The future shop-floor operators, demands, requirements and interpretations

Holm

2018

Journal of Manufacturing Systems

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“…A first step is the suggested evaluation model presented I section 3. A literature review and case studies suport a well defined range of possible solutions as contributing factors to proactivity, (Dencker et al, 2009). To receive and maintain a large range of possible solutions the results from the case studies define the following factors as contributors: MacDuffie and Krafcik (1992) stated that there is an increasing need for understanding of the employee's role in the production system due to the necessity to identify and solve problems the moment they arise on the line.…”

Section: Suggested Methods For Determination Of Proactivitymentioning

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“…In terms of system resources, we suggest that the proactive assembly system constitutes an integrated combination of the competence of "knowledge workers" (Drucker, 2008), information and automation. The proactive assembly concept is presented by Dencker et al, 2009, along with arguments for focus on levels of automation, information and competence as main drivers for the degree of proactivity. A proactive assembly system must be a meticulously and carefully planned combination of automation and manual knowledge work where the level of automation (LoA), the level of competence (LoC) and the level of information (LoI) are decisive factors.…”

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Proceedings of the 6th CIRP-Sponsored International Conference on Digital Enterprise Technology

Huang¹,

Maropoulos²

2010

Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing

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The ultimate aim when designing an assembly system is to make it strategically and operationally competitive. Competitive systems for manufacturing, especially assembly systems, have to cope with frequent changes of demands. The aim to have a short response time to customer demand, e.i. mass customization, requires assembly systems that are reliable, have high availability and have ability to produce the right product correctly. This means a combination of short resetting time and ability to vary the systems output of products. A major challenge is to minimize the lead-time that directly has influence on order-to-delivery time, while maintaining product flexibility and robustness to absorb late market changes. Given that the assembly system is working the way it is supposed to do, the order-to-delivery time is directly dependant on the setup time and the operation time. The problem is that automated assembly systems have a low availability due to that technical equipment does not work, caused by lack of knowledge, breakdowns, limited ability to perform the operation etc. This often leeds to that when a company needs variant flexibility they keep the assembly system tasks manual. Totally manual assembly system is not the future for competitiveness. Therefore we need to develop assembly systems that are available and have product flexibility to absorb late market changes, and still have a short order-to delivery time. This paper focuses on the level of automation and is a contribution to future evaluation of how technical solutions either support or work counter to proactivity. The result is a model for evaluation of technical solutions contribution to proactivity This paper describes a model for assessment of technology and assembly system solutions that fulfil requirements for a proactive assembly system. Criteria for proactivity in different technical solutions of assembly system are reviewed. KEYWORDSProactive assembly system, measuring level of automation.

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Characteristic of a Proactive Assembly System

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Abstract:Competitive assembly systems must cope with frequent demand changes, requiring drastically shortened resetting and ramp-up times. Characteristics of assembly systems capable of rapid change are e.g. Flexibility; Robustness, Agility, and ability to handle frequent changes and disturbances. This paper proposes proactivity as a vital factor of semi-automated assembly systems to increase speed of change. Proactive systems utilize the full potential of human operators and technical systems. Such systems have ability to dynamically change system automation levels, resulting in decrease of time consumed for assembly tasks. Proactivity criteria for assembly systems are reviewed based on theory and industrial case studies

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Proactive Assembly Systems-Realizing the Potential of Human Collaboration With Automation

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The future shop-floor operators, demands, requirements and interpretations

The future shop-floor operators, demands, requirements and interpretations

Proceedings of the 6th CIRP-Sponsored International Conference on Digital Enterprise Technology

Characteristic of a Proactive Assembly System

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