Factory2Fit: Empowering and participatory adaptation of factory automation to fit for workers

In collaboration with the Department of Factory Planing and Factory Management

Project partners

• VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd (VTT, Finland) http://www.vtt.fi/

• Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH, Greece) - Information Technolog Institute (iti) www.certh.gr

• Continental Automotive GmbH (Continental, Germany) www.continental-corporation.com

• Amorph Systems GmbH (AMS, Germany)

• Carr Communications Limited (Carr, Ireland) www.carrcommunications.ie

• United Technologies Research Center (UTRC-I, Ireland)

• Finn-Power Oy (Prima Power, Finland) www.primapower.com

• Visual Components Oy (VIS, Finland) www.visualcomponents.com

Funding

The Factory2Fit-Project is funded by the European Comission as part of the Horizon 2020 (H2020/2014-2020), the research and inovation program based on the Grant Agreements No. 723277.

Duration

10/2016-09/2019

Topics

Factories are changing in the process of industry 4.0. Intelligent factories go along with a higher level of automatization as well as a higher adaptation on costumers and workers. More flexible and adaptive surroundings are of great importance for productivity and job satisfaction. The Factory2Fit-Project develops solutions to employ and to motivate workers with different skills, abilities and preferences. The project will help to qualify current and future employees to knowledge workers and by that also improve their carrier chances.

The professorship of Cognitive and Engineering Psychology is significantly involved in developing a dynamic model of the workers as well as collecting data concerning the validation of the model in laboratory and real environment. We also conduct a problem and a requirement analysis at one of the practice partners. Furthermore, we investigate the potential of different mobile, technical applications (wearables). First this  investigation in conducted in laboratory, then in factory-like trial environment and later in  a pilot operation. In addition we will explore, if wearables are applicable and acceptable for use as automatization and adaptation solutions. The research in a factory-like environment is made possible by a close cooperation with the department of Factory Planning and Factory Management. The focus of our research interests are especially questions about engineering psychology and human factors.

For further information see the official project homepage.