Hybrid teams of industry 4.0: A work place considering robots as key players
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Shehadeh, Mohammad A.; Schroeder, Stefan; Richert, Anja; Jeschke, Sabina
- Source
- 2017 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 2017 IEEE International Conference on. :1208-1213 Oct, 2017
- Subject
- Aerospace
Bioengineering
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
Geoscience
Photonics and Electrooptics
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Robotics and Control Systems
Signal Processing and Analysis
Transportation
Service robots
Robot kinematics
Organizations
Standards organizations
Industries
Human-Robot-Collaboratìon
Organizational Structure
Scientific Demonstrator
Analysis
Production Efficiency
Decision Tree
Job Shop
- Language
The ongoing modernization of today's workplaces within the framework of industry 4.0 is leading to radical new developments and forcing fundamental changes to the way companies and factories are established. The purpose of this paper is to develop and improve a concept that organizes the workplace on a basic level in order to meet the upcoming challenge of accounting for robots as key players in it. There are several organizational structures that include the traditional hierarchical structures as well as the modern agile management models that are rising in the world of industry 4.0. Within it, the usage of robots is increasing due to the vast and multiple functions each robot is able to perform. This implies automation, but it also implies that different forms of collaboration with humans are becoming necessary as factories are tending to produce customized products. Individualized products require different methods and different skills which span different sets of abilities of humans and robots. How does this increase of robots' usage affect the applied organization structures and flows of the decision-making processes? What are necessary changes that need to be considered to maximize the efficiency and effectiveness of a workplace with robots that already existing structures do not compensate for? This paper highlights the existing gap and addresses the required changes in the organization models. Following that is an evaluation and outlook on that validates the legitimacy of the approach.