Assessment Based Information Needs in Manual Assembly
Paper in proceeding, 2017

To handle the complex and flexible manufacturing of today it is vital to have well functional information systems for the operators so that they know when, what and where to assemble. The current designs of assembly work instructions differ much between companies, but also between plants within the same company. The digitalization trends and initiatives such as Industry 4.0 show the manufacturing industry the advantages to incorporate new methods and tools into their businesses. Even though manufacturing IT systems are designed to be adaptive to product and volume changes, they are still widely characterized by their rigid structures. Making large changes to manufacturing IT systems with comprehensive structures is complex and requires large amounts of resources. Therefore, it is important for the manufacturing companies to make the correct investments. In previous studies, two current state analyses have been conducted with the aim to map manufacturing engineering processes and IT systems producing assembly work instructions in a mass customization context. This paper presents results from the third part of a longitudinal study which focuses on identifying operators’ information needs in manual assembly of heavy vehicles. This third study aims to identify the information gap between the current state and the wanted state by assessing information needs at 13 assembly stations in three plants belonging to a global production network. The purpose is to identify design requirements for future assembly information systems enabling the practical use of the digitalization.

assembly information systems

digitalization

Industry 4.0

cognitive automation

Manufacturing systems

cognitive ergonomics

Author

Pierre Johansson

Chalmers, Product and Production Development, Production Systems

Gustaf Eriksson

Chalmers, Product and Production Development, Production Systems

Pontus Johansson

Chalmers, Product and Production Development, Production Systems

Lennart Malmsköld

University West

Åsa Fasth Berglund

Chalmers, Product and Production Development, Production Systems

Lena Moestam

Volvo Group

24th International Conference on Production Research, ICPR 2017

ICPR 2017 366-371
9781605955070 (ISBN)

24th International Conference on Production Research
Poznań, Poland,

Subject Categories

Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics

Areas of Advance

Production

DOI

10.12783/dtetr/icpr2017/17637

ISBN

9781605955070

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3/21/2023