The digitization of manufacturing and its societal challenges: a framework for the future of industrial labor
This paper presents prospects for a human centered design of future industrial labor in a framework depicting the dilemma between what is technologically feasible and labor politically desirable, under the constraint of an economically reasonable design of work and technology. The analytical approach is the "socio technical system" which assumes that new technologies will also result in personnel and organizational changes. These considerations are transformed into a framework which brings together the perspectives of human, technology and organization and ultimately leads to a complementary and ethical design of industrial labor under the conditions of a progressive digitization of manufacturing.
2016 IEEE International Symposium on Ethics in Engineering, Science and Technology (ETHICS)