Changes in production work: Industry 4.0

该研究项目将在智能自动化生产系统的背景下分析生产工作的变化过程。它着眼于新的技术发展趋势，推动工厂自动化的新模式，最近被称为工业4.0。从技术上讲，这一概念是基于自主作用的技术部件和系统。一方面，这一概念可以被描述为一种技术愿景。另一方面，在中期内，这一概念将导致工业生产过程的可持续变化过程。因此，可以假定，这些概念的传播将明显影响生产工作的模式。该研究项目旨在为在智能自动化生产系统的背景下发展生产工作的辩论做出经验上的贡献。基本的假设是，这种系统的扩散不会导致生产工作的同质模式。相反，由于任务专门化和技能要求，它导致了工作的深度细分。由于分析主题的具体新颖性，该项目具有明确的解释性。因此，它是基于定性研究方法的广泛组合，如与专家的引导性访谈、案例研究分析和专家研讨会。

The research project will analyze change processes of production work in the context of intelli-gently automated production systems. It focuses on new technological development trends push-ing new patterns of factory automation which are termed recently as Industry 4.0. Technologi-cally, this concept is based on autonomously acting technological components and systems. On the one hand, this concept can be characterized as a technological vision. On the other hand, in the medium term this concept will lead to sustainable change processes of industrial production processes. Therefore, it can be assumed that the diffusion of these concepts will clearly affect the patterns of production work. The research project aims at an empirically based contribution to the debate about the develop-ment of production work in the context of intelligently automated production systems. The basic assumption is that the diffusion of such systems does not lead to a homogeneous pattern of pro-duction work. Rather, it leads to a deepened segmentation of work due to task specialization and skill requirements. Because of the specific novelty of the subject of analysis the project is of an explicitly explanatory character. Therefore, it is based on a broad combination of qualitative re-search methods like guided interviews with experts, case study analysis and expert workshops.