Personalized factory workstations

Monday, March 2, 2015 - 09:30 in Mathematics & Economics

Tomorrow's factory jobs will be completely different from those of today. Although they will continue to be organized around assembly stations, they will not work in rigid shifts, be subject to inflexible processes, or be restricted to a single workstation. According to Johannes Scholz and Johannes Labuttis, engineers who studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Munich, in 15 years most monotonous and strenuous activities will probably be a thing of the past. Scholz and Labuttis now work at Siemens Corporate Technology in Munich, where they focus on the role of humans in production processes. "In the future, workers will use their smartphones and computers to organize their shifts themselves," says Scholz. "When doing so, they will be able to take into account their personal chrono-biological attributes – for example, whether they're day people or night people. This will enable them to adapt their work assignments to their private...

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