Paper Info
Title
Empowering Production Workers With Digitally Facilitated Knowledge Processes - A Conceptual Framework
Abstract
Recent digital advancements, including social software, mobile technologies and augmented reality, offer promising opportunities to empower knowledge workers in their production environment by leveraging their knowledge processes, decision-making skills and social interaction practices. This paper proposes a conceptual framework for empowering workers in industrial production environments with digitally facilitated knowledge management processes. The framework explores four concrete facets of digital advancements that apply to a wide range of knowledge processes and production strategies in manufacturing companies. Each of these advancements are capable of supporting one specific facet of the individual knowledge management processes of workers; knowledge transfer, discovery, acquisition and sharing. The study contributes to the production research community by aligning emerging digital technologies and current trends in advanced manufacturing environments to benefit workers and improve job satisfaction, efficiency and productivity. The paper also contains suggestions about developing innovative solutions for production environments that support workers with digital technologies for flexible production.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1080/00207543.2018.1445877
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION RESEARCH
Keywords
DocType
Volume
production management, production models, manufacturing systems, knowledge management, information systems, information technology, augmented reality, digital technology
Journal
56
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
14
0020-7543
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
18
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lea Hannola173.15
Alexander Richter229841.18
Alexander Richter329841.18
Shahper Richter410.35
Alexander Stocker512229.34