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![]() Given the demographic shift and reports about shortage of high-skilled labor in OECD countries, the question raises on how this more complex work can actually be handled in future. However, processes will become more complex and error-prone, since human workers need to be able to produce more different product variations and consequently will have to master a larger variety of single work steps.ĭue to the aforementioned trends, complexity and required skills of tasks in industrial work environments will increase. But even manual production work won’t vanish: with decreasing lot sizes caused by shorter product-lifecycles and higher product variations (mass customization), manual work processes will still be required. Tasks of production worker and knowledge worker, such as product development and production planning will intertwine and manual production work will shift to planning, control and monitoring tasks for machines and processes. With the further digitalization and interconnection of production systems, which is sometimes referred to as Industry 4.0, Smart Industry or Smart Manufacturing, the role of human work changes significantly. In today’s industrial production, machines are an integral part and its importance will even rise in future. ![]() Automation of production processes is a trend that traces back to the industrial revolution or even beyond. ![]()
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