As production environments become increasingly automated and AI-assisted, managing automation failures is a growing challenge. This study examines how team organization—hierarchical versus self-managed—affects team performance in resolving such failures. Using a laboratory experiment...

The increasing complexity of industrial environments demands new competencies from workers, particularly the ability to interact with advanced digital systems. Traditional training methods often fall short in supporting the effective transfer of applied knowledge to such contexts, and the...

Die zunehmende Komplexität industrieller Umgebungen erfordert neue Kompetenzen, insbesondere in der Interaktion mit digitalen Systemen. Traditionelle Ausbildungsmethoden reichen für den effektiven Transfer von angewandtem Wissen oft nicht aus. Um diese Lücke zu schließen, wurde ein...

Der vorliegende Beitrag diskutiert den Umgang mit dem Problem der „ironies of automation“ in Industrie-4.0-Konzepten. Das Problem dieser „ironies“ liegt darin, dass sich bei der Arbeit mit autonomen technischen Systemen für die Beschäftigten die Möglichkeiten für direktes Feedback...

The increasing complexity of production environments and fluctuations in short-term demand requires adaptive and robust processes. To cope with the inherent challenges, deep reinforcement learning algorithms were widely deployed in assembly processes in recent years, due to their generalization...

In today’s rapidly changing production landscape with increasingly complex manufacturing processes and shortening product life cycles, a company’s competitiveness depends on its ability to design flexible and resilient production processes. On the shop-floor, in particular, the production...

In today’s rapidly changing production landscape with increasingly complex manufacturing processes and shortening product life cycles, a company’s competitiveness depends on its ability to design flexible and resilient production processes. On the shop-floor, in particular, the production...

The digital transformation sets new requirements to all classes of enterprise systems in companies. ERP systems in particular, which represent the dominant class of enterprise systems, are struggling to meet the new requirements at all levels of the architecture. Therefore, there is an urgent...