The Vitality of Activities and the Rationality of Lean: Two Case Studies

Benchekroun, Tahar‐Hakim; Arnoud, Justine; Arama, Rebecca

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“…These new technologies, although they present significant potential for the future, must be thought out and implemented with great caution. In fact, what is supposed to improve performance or improve working conditions represents at the same time a risk of disturbing the existing system, degrading productivity [9] or even placing additional constraints on human operators [10].…”

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Industry of the Future, Future of Work: The Case of Collaborative Robotics

Benchekroun

Bounouar

Béarée

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Proceedings of the 21st Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2021)

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This communication discusses the resulting changes in the field of design project management generated by the industry of the future and its promises, with a special focus on collaborative robotics. Among the guiding issues of this work, we will focus on the importance of including such an intention to cobotize some or all of the tasks initially assigned to human operators, during the strategic stakes of the design process and to instruct and support it by the potential contributions of a bottum up approach centered on the real activities, mobilized and deployed during the realization of the tasks which are objects of cobotization. This discussion is based on an industrial case study, aimed at assisting a finishing workstation (the last stage of a production process) for fragile mechanical parts used in the manufacture of metal parts for the aeronautics sector.

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“…In order to go more deeply into this characterization, and inspired by the work of Chassaing [9] and Benchekroun et al [10,11], gestural activity would be located, invested, constructed and developing:…”

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Industry of the Future, Future of Work: The Case of Collaborative Robotics

Benchekroun

Bounouar

Béarée

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Proceedings of the 21st Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2021)

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The Design of “Future Work” in Industrial Contexts

Barcellini

2022

Managing Future Challenges for Safety

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This chapter proposes to discuss work transformation management as a key issue to designing working conditions to ensure safe, healthy and performant work in a context of technological transitions. Here, we view the design of future work as a transition process and as a set of projects—social, organisational, technological—that will together shape a “future of work”. We consider lessons from the past regarding: (1) cooperation between workers and technology and (2) project management of work transformations, as resources to manage this transition. These lessons will be discussed with reference to ongoing research dealing with introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) or collaborative robotics at work in the French industrial context, as an illustration of the transformation of industry at a global level.

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Promises of industry 4.0 under the magnifying glass of interdisciplinarity: revealing operators and managers work and challenging collaborative robot design

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The goal of this article is to propose a cross-perspective around Collaborative Robotics—seen as a remarkable example of technologies 4.0 in an industrial context—by calling on sociology, activity-centred ergonomics, engineering, and robotics expertises. The development of this cross-perspective is thought to be a key issue to improve the design of work organisation for the Industry 4.0. After a socio-historical review of promises of Collaborative Robotics, the interdisciplinary approach developed and applied in a French Small & Medium Enterprise (SME) is presented. In this case study, two work situations are focused on in an interdisciplinary perspective: on the one hand, the one of operators whose professional gestures are intended to be supported by collaborative robots, and on the other the one of managers and executives as responsible for socio-technical changes. Our results reveal the technical and socio-organisational challenges faced by SMEs beyond the introduction of given technologies: analysing the relevance and feasibility of cobotisation projects with regard to the complexity of professional gestures and preserving the quality of work and performance under a continuous pressure to change (organisations, technologies). These findings support discussions of promises of collaborative robotics, and more generally Industry 4.0, regarding effective worker/technology collaboration and the possibility of “healthy” and performant work; they reiterate requirements for work-centred and participatory design, for reconnection in a sensory experience in a more and more digitalized work and open ways for more interdisciplinary approaches.

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The Vitality of Activities and the Rationality of Lean: Two Case Studies

Cited by 3 publications

References 12 publications

Industry of the Future, Future of Work: The Case of Collaborative Robotics

Industry of the Future, Future of Work: The Case of Collaborative Robotics

The Design of “Future Work” in Industrial Contexts

Promises of industry 4.0 under the magnifying glass of interdisciplinarity: revealing operators and managers work and challenging collaborative robot design

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