The Factory of the Future? The Contradictory Restructuring of an Assembly Line in France

2020 ◽  
pp. 118-136
Author(s):  
Juan Sebastian Carbonell
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Assembly Line ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Industrie 4.0 ◽  
Labour Process ◽  
The Future ◽  
Factory Of The Future ◽  
Assembly Operations

This paper studies how the introduction of new technologies and a new organiza-tion of work transforms the labour process at an assembly line of the PSA group in France. The firm presents the new organization as an innovative modernization bringing forward the "Factory of the Future" through concepts directly inspired by Industrie 4.0 and Industrie du futur. At the same time, this modernization also re-sponds to the need for the plant to become more competitive in order to face the consequences of the economic crisis of 2008. Drawing from data obtained through fieldwork (interviews with workers, union representatives and internal documents), the author shows that behind the rhetoric of modernization and industrial excel-lence, the firm intensifies work in assembly operations and workers lose autono-my.

Intuitive, digitale Strukturlayoutplanung*/Intuitive digital planning of structure layouts – Overcoming the challenges of disruptive production programs in the automotive industry

2018 ◽  
Vol 108 (09) ◽  
pp. 611-616
Author(s):  
S. F. Schäfer ◽  
U. Bracht
Keyword(s):  
Automotive Industry ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Know How ◽  
Digital Planning ◽  
The Future ◽  
Factory Of The Future ◽  
Future Technologies ◽  
The Impact

Zukünftige Antriebstechnologien sowie neue Fabrik- und Logistikkonzepte verändern die Rahmenbedingungen der Automobilproduktion grundlegend. Schon heute muss die Strukturlayoutplanung Innovationen und Unsicherheiten in Form von mehr Varianten, abgestimmt in sehr kurzer Zeit, durch die Einbeziehung von weiteren Know-how-Trägern berücksichtigen. Neue Herausforderungen, wie die Planung der Batteriefertigungen, müssen schnell und intuitiv gelöst werden. Einen Beitrag dafür liefert dieser Artikel.   Future technologies in automotive mobility as well as new factory and logistic concepts are changing the framework in car production. Innovations and uncertainties (e. g. the impact of new technologies) have to be taken in consideration for the factory of the future. New tasks, such as planning the assembly of batteries, need to be solved fast and intuitively. This paper presents an approach to this topic.

Virtual Reality for Manufacturing Engineering in the Factories of the Future

2015 ◽  
Vol 789-790 ◽  
pp. 1275-1282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Bougaa ◽  
Stefan Bornhofen ◽  
Hubert Kadima ◽  
Alain Rivière
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Production Efficiency ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Key Technology ◽  
Engineering Approach ◽  
The Future ◽  
Manufacturing Engineering ◽  
Factory Of The Future ◽  
Factories Of The Future

This paper discusses the possibilities of applying Virtual Reality (VR) technologies to Manufacturing Engineering, and in particular assesses its role in the Factory of the Future (FoF). We review, classify and compare the recommendations given by four major European reports on the challenges that have to be met for a successful deployment of the FoF, and we identify the potential contributions of VR to this vision in terms of new technologies, worker-factory relationship, modular infrastructure and production efficiency. We argue that VR can be a key technology to support the FoF at all levels of the Systems Engineering approach, either directly by applying it in standard engineering processes, or indirectly by leveraging other useful technologies.

Metrologie für heterogene Sensornetzwerke und Industrie 4.0

2019 ◽  
Vol 86 (11) ◽  
pp. 623-629 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sascha Eichstädt ◽  
Björn Ludwig
Keyword(s):  
Industrie 4.0 ◽  
The Future ◽  
Factory Of The Future

ZusammenfassungNetzwerke von Sensoren für verschiedene Messgrößen stellen zunehmend das Rückgrat für eine Vielzahl von Anwendungsgebieten in beispielsweise Industrie, Maschinenbau und Umweltüberwachung dar. Dabei spielt das Zusammenführen der Daten (Sensorfusion) eine zentrale Rolle in der Anwendung und ist im Allgemeinen ein gut untersuchtes Forschungsgebiet. Die Berücksichtigung metrologischer Grundprinzipien wie Kalibrierung, Messunsicherheiten und damit Rückführung auf das SI-Einheitensystem für vergleichbare und reproduzierbare Messergebnisse ist jedoch vergleichsweise wenig untersucht. Dieser Beitrag diskutiert Grundsatzfragen, stellt Lösungsansätze aus dem aktuell laufenden EMPIR-Projekt “Metrology for the Factory of the Future” (Met4FoF) vor und gibt einen Ausblick auf zukünftige Forschungsfelder. Dabei fokussiert sich der Artikel auf das Anwendungsfeld der sog. „Industrie 4.0“ als „Fabrik der Zukunft“.

Into the Future: Language, Culture, and New Technologies

2000 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 437-439
Author(s):  
Michele Knobel
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
The Future

scholarly journals Site Experience Enhancement and Perspective in Cultural Heritage Fruition—A Survey on New Technologies and Methodologies Based on a “Four-Pillars” Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
Agnese Augello ◽  
Ignazio Infantino ◽  
Giovanni Pilato ◽  
Gianpaolo Vitale
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Multimodal Interaction ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
The Future ◽  
Cultural Interest ◽  
And Behavior

This paper deals with innovative fruition modalities of cultural heritage sites. Based on two ongoing experiments, four pillars are considered, that is, User Localization, Multimodal Interaction, User Understanding and Gamification. A survey of the existing literature regarding one or more issues related to the four pillars is proposed. It aims to put in evidence the exploitation of these contributions to cultural heritage. It is discussed how a cultural site can be enriched, extended and transformed into an intelligent multimodal environment in this perspective. This new augmented environment can focus on the visitor, analyze his activity and behavior, and make his experience more satisfying, fulfilling and unique. After an in-depth overview of the existing technologies and methodologies for the fruition of cultural interest sites, the two experiments are described in detail and the authors’ vision of the future is proposed.

Digital Authoritarianism and the Future of Human Rights

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Tiberiu Dragu ◽  
Yonatan Lupu
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Theoretic Model ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
Human Rights Regime ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Future ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Game Theoretic ◽  
Strategic Context

Abstract How will advances in digital technology affect the future of human rights and authoritarian rule? Media figures, public intellectuals, and scholars have debated this relationship for decades, with some arguing that new technologies facilitate mobilization against the state and others countering that the same technologies allow authoritarians to strengthen their grip on power. We address this issue by analyzing the first game-theoretic model that accounts for the dual effects of technology within the strategic context of preventive repression. Our game-theoretical analysis suggests that technological developments may not be detrimental to authoritarian control and may, in fact, strengthen authoritarian control by facilitating a wide range of human rights abuses. We show that technological innovation leads to greater levels of abuses to prevent opposition groups from mobilizing and increases the likelihood that authoritarians will succeed in preventing such mobilization. These results have broad implications for the human rights regime, democratization efforts, and the interpretation of recent declines in violent human rights abuses.

The Networked World, New Technologies and the Future

2000 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-190
Author(s):  
Douglas M. Sweeny
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
The Future
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