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Small and middle-sized companies in the composite part production struggle with a lack of skilled workers while they cannot meet the demands of the market. For these companies, a full automation of the process is usually not economically feasible due to high implementation costs and small batch sizes. One solution for this challenge can be the introduction of a collaborative robot to the process that supports the worker. To design a collaborative human-robot workstation, it is essential to define requirements that include the human as the user of the system. Therefore, we conducted a qualitative study based on a mixed method approach. With a focus group, expert interviews, and observational studies we derived a first set of chances and risks of a collaborative workstation in the composite part production and potential manufacturing steps the robot could take over. These results are the basis for the definition of the requirements for designing a collaborative workstation in the composite part production.
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This publication is part of the project “RaCPro: Robot-assisted Composite Production” (IGF project number: 22611 N/1), funded by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection according to a resolution of the German Parliament.
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Lauwigi, J., Khodaei, S., Dammers, H., Abdelrazeq, A., Isenhardt, I. (2023). Requirements for Designing a Collaborative Human-Robot Workstation for Composite Part Production. In: Stephanidis, C., Antona, M., Ntoa, S., Salvendy, G. (eds) HCI International 2023 Posters. HCII 2023. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1832. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35989-7_11
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