Exploring the integration of the human as a flexibility factor in CPS enabled manufacturing environments: methodology and results
Creators
- 1. Politecnico di Milano
- 2. Instituto Politécnico de Bragança
- 3. Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical & Manufacturing Engineering
Description
Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) are expected to
shape the evolution of production towards the fourth industrial
revolution named Industry 4.0. The increasing integration of
manufacturing processes and the strengthening of the
autonomous capabilities of manufacturing systems make
investigating the role of humans a primary research objective in
view of emerging social and demographic megatrends.
Understanding how the employees can be better integrated to
enable increased flexibility in manufacturing systems is a
prerequisite to allow technological solutions, as well as humans,
to harness their full potential. Humans can supervise and adjust
the settings, be a source of knowledge and competences, can
diagnose situations, take decisions and several other activities
influencing manufacturing performances, overall providing
additional degrees of freedom to the systems. This paper, studies
two different integration models: Human-in-the-Loop and
Human-in-the-Mesh. They are both analysed in the context of
four industrial cases of deployment of cyber physical systems in
production.
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