Up-Skilling for Industry 5.0 Roll-Out

第四次工业革命/工业4.0通过融合物理世界和数字世界，降低了生产成本，提高了产品质量的一致性，并实现了大规模定制。转型仍在进行中——工业4.0是一项通用技术，为所有工业部门增加价值。然而，人类对工业4.0的看法并不都是积极的。人们一直担心裁员，甚至在某些行业，人工智能会完全取代人类劳动力。自动化项目的失败往往是由于忽略了业务成功中关键的技术人员因素，导致了意想不到的后果，包括降低客户满意度、降低产品质量和降低流程效率。自动化本身显然不能成为持续竞争优势的来源。I5.0将解决人与技术之间的平衡，重点关注熟练工人与自动化之间的协作关系。其目的是在生产过程中恢复熟练的工艺，使人们能够增加独特的价值和竞争优势，并通过工业4.0中出现的智能数据驱动技术加以增强。在Up-Skill项目中，我们将讨论工业5.0的影响，特别是自动化、熟练工作和组织系统之间的关系。我们的研究将确定自动化和人力投入之间的关系如何在一系列工业环境中发挥作用，创建比较案例研究，以获取有效的实施策略。我们将解决生产中未充分开发的战略空间——自动化为熟练和手工工作增加价值，而进一步自动化可能会破坏产品价值。本研究将确定不断变化的组织特征，以确保技术进步在公司内部实施，同时确保人、机器和组织的可持续增值。

The 4th Industrial Revolution/Industry 4.0 has enabled reduction of production costs, improved consistency of product quality and enabled mass customisation by merging the physical and digital worlds. The transition is still ongoing - Industry 4.0 is a general-purpose technology, adding value across all industrial sectors. However, the perception of Industry 4.0 at a human level has not all been positive. It has been plagued by fear of job cuts and in some sectors completely replacing the human workforce. Automation projects have often failed due to omitting the critical skilled human elements in business success with unintended consequences including reduced customer satisfaction, poorer product quality and lower process efficiency. Automation alone clearly cannot be a source of sustained competitive advantage. I5.0 will address the balance between humans and technology, focussing on the collaborative relationship between skilled workers and automation. The intent is to reinstate skilled craftsmanship at the centre of production processes where people add unique value and competitive advantage, augmented by intelligent, data-driven technology emerging from Industry 4.0. In the Up-Skill project, we will address the implications of Industry 5.0, in particular the relationship between automation, skilled work and organisational systems. Our research will establish how the relationship between automation and human input plays out in a range of industrial settings, creating comparative case studies to capture effective implementation strategies. We will address under-explored strategic spaces in production - where automation adds value to skilled and artisanal work, and where further automation risks undermining product value. This research will identify the shifting organisational characteristics that are needed to ensure technology advancements are implemented within companies while ensuring sustainable, added value for man, machine, and organisation.