Title
Reflections on Operators' and Maintenance Engineers' Experiences of Smart Factories.
Abstract
In production environments, the number of distributed, networked, and automated systems has grown rapidly and is expected to continue to grow in the future. This affects humans' work fundamentally, in terms of their tasks and routines. Increasing automation and digitalization leads to a substantial change of human-machine interactions on the shop floor, raising the question about humans' role in highly automated environments. In this paper, we shed light on how work in increasingly automated and digitalized factories is experienced, drawing on interviews with operators and maintenance engineers from three different industrial contexts. By reflecting on actual and anticipated developments in smart production environments, we point out how workers will experience those contexts. We finally discuss resulting challenges and leverage points for smart factories, i.e., areas where HCI and CSCW can contribute to positively influence workers' experiences in times of increasing automation and digitalization.
Year
Venue
DocType
2018
GROUP
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-5562-9
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daniela Wurhofer111014.14
Thomas Meneweger2186.04
Verena Fuchsberger312019.51
Manfred Tscheligi42567570.72