The Project
Especially for highly individual products or assembly steps a full automation is often not reachable for both technical and economic reasons. By this means humans and machines have to work cooperatively in future factories. In contrast to common CAD/CAM approaches enable fully automated programming of machines the humans are not programmable automatically. In other words human workers have to be individually trained for each product which result in high ramp up costs for new products and assembly steps.
Therefore, the main goal of the Human Centered Workplace 4 Industry project is to reduce this training effort by researching autonomously configurable, digital assistance systems which support the human workers during their daily work. These digital assistance system range from product-specific work instruction shown on a display, augmented reality solutions for training, up to collaborative robots. During the project the requirements arising from human assembly processes shall be gathered and transformed into a generic setup for a so called “human centered workplace”.
