Aging employees in modern working environments require compensation of their decreasing fitness and cognitive abilities. Ambient Assisted Working (AAW) based on modern information technology can offer potentials to cope with the upcoming... more
Aging employees in modern working environments require compensation of their decreasing fitness and cognitive abilities. Ambient Assisted Working (AAW) based on modern information technology can offer potentials to cope with the upcoming demographic change. The project EUNA aims at figuring out the potential contribution of wearable computing components to enable social and economic participation of aging employees. Focus of the project is on production oriented branches and logistics oriented service providers. The project activities include an empirical investigation of AAW to establish the status quo and future development of the topic within production and logistics as well as identifying new application areas.
The number of cyber-physical systems (CPS) in industrial environments is growing based on the effort of projects like Industrie 4.0. CPS offer the potential to improve processes in modern value networks. By improving processes, especially... more
The number of cyber-physical systems (CPS) in industrial environments is growing based on the effort of projects like Industrie 4.0. CPS offer the potential to improve processes in modern value networks. By improving processes, especially jobs with no demand for qualified workers can be dispensed. Another effect are jobs being standardised, that they become very monotonous for the workers. For providing satisfying jobs especially for low qualified workers in future working environments some opportunities CPS offer were presented. First opportunities consumer devices offer were presented, second concepts for user-friendly human machine interfaces were illustrated.