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Human-Centered Manufacturing Challenges Affecting European Industry 4.0 Enabling Technologies

Abstract

Industry 4.0 implies the digitization of the shopfloor combining technologies such as sensors, augmented reality, and wearable robots that transform the manufacturing environment into a workplace where human-machine interactive symbiosis. As manufacturing companies develop strategies to innovate and engage with the digital transformation, the reality of the enabling technologies demonstrate serious challenges to the wider organizational adoption beyond the pilot phase albeit the promising evaluation results. This paper presents two cases based on two European research projects encompassing representatives of different industrial sectors and distils the challenges encountered that raise barriers to wider adoption.

Category

Academic article

Language

English

Author(s)

  • Manuel Oliveira
  • Emrah Arica
  • Marta Pinzone
  • Paola Fantini
  • Marco Taisch

Affiliation

  • SINTEF Digital / Technology Management
  • Politecnico di Milano University

Year

2019

Published in

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)

ISSN

0302-9743

Volume

11786 LNCS

Page(s)

507 - 517

View this publication at Norwegian Research Information Repository