Mental Strain as Field of Action in the 4th Industrial Revolution
By U. Dombrowski, Tobias Wagner. 2014
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Abstract Industrial revolutions have changed the society by a development of key-technologies. The vision of the 4 th industrial revolution is triggered by technological concepts and solutions to realize a combination of the economy of scale with the economy of scope. This aim is also known as mass customization and is characterized by handling a high level of complexity with a total network integration of products and production processes. These technology-driven changes also lead to new fields of activity in the industrial science and the occupational psychology. The 4 th industrial revolution intends to implement the collaboration between humans and machines. At the same time, processes are locally controlled and planned. For humans, this results to new work items. Resulting psychological effects should be investigated. This paper classifies the 4 th industrial revolution systematically and describes future changes for employees. It derives the necessity of labor- psychological analysis of new key technologies like cyber physical systems. A theoretical foundation of a psychological work requirement analysis by using the VERA method is given. Finally, results of a preliminary study are carried out that will give the base for further studies.
Subfields: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Review of the Construction Labour Demand and Shortages in the EU (2021, background): “While the 3IR tends consists of technology-oriented work tasks, those tasks are changed to process-oriented tasks [25].”
- Managerial challenges of Industry 4.0: an empirically backed research agenda for a nascent field (2018, methodology): “Assuming a fruitful collaboration with management practice in innovative projects, scholars may be able to point out specific change management policies that go beyond the classical approaches of early communication and employee participation (cf., Dombrowski and Wagner 2014a).”
- Defining and assessing industry 4.0 maturity levels – case of the defence sector (2018, background): “According to Dombrowski and Wagner (2014) the categorisation of a new Industrial Revolution constitutes a significant change in the technical, economic or social systems within the industry, a paradigm shift in the production model. The terminology ‘Industry 4.0’ appears to have been initiated in Ge”