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Integration of Human Factors for Assembly Systems of the Future

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Assembly is the final step of production and has to adapt to changing requirements. Produced parts are assembled into a product of higher complexity with defined functions within a determined time. Workers are the central actors in future cyber-physical assembly systems. They are crucial to the success of the entire system. There is a variety of methods and models for planning specific aspects of assembly systems. Examples include workstation design, assembly layout, and task assignment. In these approaches, individual characteristics and human factors are insufficiently considered. Within this chapter, an approach for the integration of human factors into cyber-physical assembly systems is proposed. This approach is an extension for planning methods and models that is meant to optimise the performance and cost of the assembly system.

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Daniel Roesmann and Iris Gräßler are members of the research programme ‘Design of Flexible Work Environments—Human-Centric Use of Cyber-Physical Systems in Industry 4.0’, which is supported by the North Rhine-Westphalian funding scheme ‘Forschungskolleg’.

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Roesmann, D., Gräßler, I. (2023). Integration of Human Factors for Assembly Systems of the Future. In: Gräßler, I., Maier, G.W., Steffen, E., Roesmann, D. (eds) The Digital Twin of Humans. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26104-6_9

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