Industry 5.0—the Human Factors in Semi-automated Manufacturing

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Applied Industrial Technologies".

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Department of Process Engineering, University of Pannonia, H-8200 Veszprém, Hungary
Interests: process mining algorithms; discrete-event simulators; Industry 4.0; Operator 4.0; Industry 5.0
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MTA-PE Lendület Complex Systems Monitoring Research Group, Department of Process Engineering, University of Pannonia, H-8200 Veszprém, Hungary
Interests: chemical engineering; complex systems; computational intelligence; network science; process engineering
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Institute of Industrial Automation and Software Engineering, University of Stuttgart, 70049 Stuttgart, Germany
Interests: networked automation systems; artificial intelligence; dependability
Institute of Industrial Automation and Software Engineering, University of Stuttgart, 70049 Stuttgart, Germany
Interests: intelligent automation; human digital twin; cyber-physical systems; reliability

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Manufacturing companies face two major trends affecting their business: intelligent automatization and collaboration. After the first wave of digitization, new and modernized technologies such as integrated sensors, advanced robotics, and artificial intelligence led to the so-called Smart Manufacturing as part of Industry 4.0. Collaboration between the human operators and machines are completed thanks to the collaborative robots. Companies have realized that they still need humans at the shop floor besides high-level automation. This realization creates a new generation of the industrial revolution. Industry 5.0 brings human workers back to the factory floors. The Fifth Industrial Revolution will pair humans and machines to utilize human creativity to further increase process efficiency by combining workflows with intelligent systems. While the primary concern in Industry 4.0 is about automation, Industry 5.0 will be a synergy between humans and autonomous machines.

With the rapid development of innovative technologies, such as artificial intelligence methods, big data and cloud computing, the new concept of Industry 5.0 has been revolutionizing production and logistics systems by introducing collaborative processes and data-based operator support (so-called Operator 4.0). This Special Issue aims to disseminate advanced research in the theory and application of collaboration in the manufacturing industries (also known by some experts as Industry 5.0).

The main focus of this session is the invitation of high-quality, state-of-the-art research papers that deal with challenging issues in Industry 5.0. We solicit original papers of unpublished and completed research not currently under review by any other conference/magazine/journal.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Human–machine interface in IIoT for industrial applications;
  • Digital Twin, Device Models, Adaptive- and Automation-Models;
  • Human–machine interfaces (HMI) and SCADA supervisory systems;
  • Human factors, industrial ergonomics, and safety in smart maintenance;
  • Industrial applications of the Internet of Things;
  • AI- or ML-based maintenance;
  • Risk analysis for Industry Production Systems;
  • Smart Manufacturing;
  • Smart logistics related to industrial applications;
  • Cyberphysical systems;
  • Industrial sensor networks;
  • Combinations of sensors/sensor networks and Augmented Reality in industrial environments;
  • Real-time locating in production and logistics;
  • Process modelling and simulation.

Dr. Tamás Ruppert
Prof. Dr. János Abonyi
Prof. Dr. Andrey Morozov
Dr. Nasser Jazdi
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • human factors
  • intelligent automation
  • intelligent collaboration
  • industry 5.0
  • smart manufacturing
  • Human-Digital Twin

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Workforce Learning Curves for Human-Based Assembly Operations: A State-of-the-Art Review
by Carlos Peña, David Romero and Julieta Noguez
Appl. Sci. 2022, 12(19), 9608; https://doi.org/10.3390/app12199608 - 24 Sep 2022
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In this state-of-the-art review, the authors explore the recent advancements in the topics of learning curve models and their estimation methods for manual operations and processes as well as the data collection and monitoring technologies used for supporting these. This objective is achieved [...] Read more.
In this state-of-the-art review, the authors explore the recent advancements in the topics of learning curve models and their estimation methods for manual operations and processes as well as the data collection and monitoring technologies used for supporting these. This objective is achieved by answering the following three research questions: (RQ1) What calculation methods for estimating the learning curve of a worker exist in the recent scientific literature? (RQ2) What other usages are manufacturing enterprises giving to the modern learning curve prediction models according to the recent scientific literature? and (RQ3) What data collection and monitoring technologies exist to automatically acquire the data needed to create and continuously update the learning curve of an assembly operator? To do so, the PRISMA methodology for literature reviews was used, only including journal articles and conference papers referencing the topic of manual operations and processes, and to fulfil the criteria of a state-of-the-art review, only the literary corpus generated in the last five years (from 2017 to 2022) was reviewed. The scientific databases where the explorative research was carried out were Scopus and Web of Science. Such research resulted in 11 relevant journal articles and international conference papers, which were first reviewed, synthesized, and then compared. Four estimating methods were found for learning curves, and one recently developed learning curve model was found. As for the data collection and monitoring technologies, six frameworks were found and reviewed. Lastly, in the discussion, different areas of opportunity were found in the current state-of-the-art, mainly by combining the existing learning curve models and their estimation methods and feeding these with modern real-time data collection and monitoring frameworks. Full article
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