What is it about?
Increasing networking and digitalization in the industrial framework down to the lowest levels of production processes are the basis and driving force for innovations and changes that go hand in hand with developments in the area of Industry 4.0 and Smart Factory solutions. The classic Product Development Process (PDP) based on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems appears static and inflexible in the face of increasingly agile and flexible customer requirements. This increasing pressure to optimize, mostly for market reasons, is causing a fundamental change in the global manufacturing landscape in medium-sized and large companies. The implementation of robot systems in an automated manufacturing process must therefore be adapted to this development by a new agile concept.
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Why is it important?
This new concept combines elements from dynamic project management, stakeholder participation processes and modern digital design methods with classic design approaches to optimize the timing and cost-effectiveness of an automation process using robot systems.
Perspectives
I hope this article helps SMEs with the timely introduction of a robot system into an existing production facility. This article was the basis for the successful development of an augmented reality application to demonstrate and visualize the robot to be implemented in production.
Urban Frank
Hochschule Bochum
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This page is a summary of: Concept for participatory product development process in the field of robotic systems, January 2024, American Institute of Physics,
DOI: 10.1063/5.0226501.
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