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The Human-Machine Factory: Redefining the Role of People in Automated Production
Automation changes the role of people inside factories rather than simply removing them from production. Collaborative robots can work near operators, digital instructions can provide contextual guidance and automated systems can take over repetitive or physically demanding tasks. This edition examines the evolving relationship between workers and machines across the factory floor. It explores cobots, operator assistance, ergonomics, skills and human-machine interfaces while considering how technology can augment human capability and create safer, more effective production environments.
Editor's Note
The future factory will contain increasingly capable machines, but people will remain essential to engineering, judgment, improvement and problem-solving. The important question is therefore how human and machine capabilities should complement one another. This edition examines that relationship and how automation can change factory work, while focusing on the skills, interfaces and production design required to make technology genuinely useful to the people operating alongside it.
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