NRW Research College Work 4.0: Design of flexible working environments - People-centered use of cyber-physical systems in Industry 4.0
For production companies, the transition to Industry 4.0 opens up great opportunities for modernization and the associated increase in the efficiency of production processes. In addition to the still largely existing technical challenges in the development of such systems, the role of employees in particular is experiencing a significant change across the entire value chain. The continuously networked, dynamic and real-time-oriented processes change work processes fundamentally and require more flexible employment. The challenge lies in the development of new social infrastructures, which anticipate the continued rapid technological development and see people in the focus of development over their entire working life.
The NRW research college is run by scientists from the Universities of Paderborn and Bielefeld. The fields involved are psychology, sociology, pedagogy, electrical engineering, mathematics, mechanical engineering, economics and computer science. The research work carried out as part of doctoral projects is embedded in an inter- and transdisciplinary environment. The research projects are accompanied by our partners in the inter- and transdisciplinary environment from the initiation to the final evaluation.