Operators in industrial manufacturing environments are under pressure to cope with the ever increasing flexibility and complexity of work. Transitioning towards data-driven smart manufacturing environments in the context of Industry 4.0 with wearable technologies and sensors brings the opportunity t...

Operators in industrial manufacturing environments are under pressure to cope with increasing flexibility and complexity of work. The automation of manufacturing requires operators to adopt new techniques and shifts the focus from low-complexity repetitive tasks to dealing with the execution of high...

Despite its potential, empirical evidence of the educational effectiveness of Digital Game-based Learning (DGBL) for manufacturing education is still limited. To this respect, the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Game was developed in order to explain in an interactive way to university students life cyc...

Despite the increasing automation levels in an Industry 4.0 scenario, the tacit knowledge of highly skilled manufacturing workers remains of strategic importance. Retaining this knowledge by formally capturing it is a challenge for industrial organisations. This paper explores research on automatica...

The use of Digital Game-Based Learning (DGBL) in manufacturing education has been on the rise. However, empirical evidence of the educational effectiveness of DGBL is still scant, especially in manufacturing education. This paper reports on the development of a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) game used ...

New technological advances can offer personalised and timely services for industry workers. Exoskeletons, HoloLens, Process Mining and Social Knowledge Networks are some of these services offered to workers by the EU HuMan project. These services could alleviate a worker’s physical stress, their cog...

Industry 4.0 entails the digitization of the shopfloor operations combining technologies such as internet of things-enabled sensing, cyber-physical systems, data analytics, augmented reality, and wearable devices and robots that transform the manufacturing environment into a workplace of human-machi...

Social Innovation is gaining popularity as an approach to address societal challenges. Governments, charities, NGOS and organizations are taking up the role of facilitating citizens participation into social innovation initiatives. Digital collaborative platforms have a great potential for enabling ...