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- Mattsson, Sandra, et al.
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Designing digital support for operator and maintenance personnel cognition and future skills in manufacturing industry
- 2022
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Ingår i: INTED 2022 Proceedings. - : IATED. - 9788409377589 ; , s. 9665-9673
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Industry 4.0 is believed to introduce new smart digital tools which transform manufacturing processes but affect production personnel’s work practice. Operators and maintenance personnel running the everyday operations need to learn and handle new routines and systems while maintaining production efficiency. Operators today are challenged when they must handle unexpected stops caused by machine failures and the following error recovery process of automated production systems. With complex digital tools and integrated production systems the error recovery process becomes complex because there is no one-size-fits-all solution and a lack of intelligent and automated restart systems. Even if there are defined routines for industrial work and structures for managing digital technologies, it is not adapted to the individuals’ cognitive processes neither to their workplace learning. Altogether it puts high pressure on operators’ knowledge and skills of restarting machines and systems caused by errors. The aim is to explore operators and maintenance personnel cognition and skills and how their roles vary in relevant aspects of situational awareness and workplace learning. In an on-going case we studied two industrial companies that produce similar components but are working differently with production and maintenance. Through nine interviews we investigate the differences between the companies, their current work practices, and future changes. With application of a situation awarenessmodel, we capture cognition and learning including task/system factors, perception and decision making, and individual factors. Perspectives of workplace learning and knowledge sharing between personnel and relations to the systems use are applied. Results indicate that rule-based behaviours are key for both operators and maintenance personnel. These behaviours are supported by the systems and routines, but complicated errors make the systems and routines prove inadequate. In conclusion, to design appropriate digital support tools both operators and maintenance personnel behaviour need to be supported, however they need to be supported differently since their function behaviours such as routines, system use and communication vary. In addition, future skills and competences needed forsupporting complex system tasks include knowledge of computational models and simulation, knowledge of the machines and how they interrelate with systems, and logic reasoning and robotic programming of automated production systems.
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- de Blanche, Andreas, 1975-, et al.
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Artificial and human aspects of Industry 4.0: an industrial work-integrated-learning research agenda
- 2021
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Ingår i: VILÄR. - 9789189325036
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The manufacturing industry is currently under extreme pressure to transform their organizations and competencies to reap the benefits of industry 4.0. The main driver for industry 4.0 is digitalization with disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, internet of things, digital platforms, etc. Industrial applications and research studies have shown promising results, but they rarely involve a human-centric perspective. Given this, we argue there is a lack of knowledge on how disruptive technologies take part in human decision-making and learning practices, and to what extent disruptive technologies may support both employees and organizations to “learn”. In recent research the importance and need of including a human-centric perspective in industry 4.0 is raised including a human learning and decision-making approach. Hence, disruptive technologies, by themselves, no longer consider to solve the actual problems.Considering the richness of this topic, we propose an industrial work-integrated-learning research agenda to illuminate a human-centric perspective in Industry 4.0. This work-in-progress literature review aims to provide a research agenda on what and how application areas are covered in earlier research. Furthermore, the review identifies obstacles and opportunities that may affect manufacturing to reap the benefits of Industry 4.0. As part of the research, several inter-disciplinary areas are identified, in which industrial work-integrated-learning should be considered to enhance the design, implementation, and use of Industry 4.0 technologies. In conclusion, this study proposes a research agenda aimed at furthering research on how industrial digitalization can approach human and artificial intelligence through industrial work-integrated-learning for a future digitalized manufacturing.
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- Sülau, Andréas, et al.
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Komplex matchning av kompetensutvecklingsbehov inom digitalisering och hållbar utveckling: En kartläggning av industriföretag i Västsverige
- 2021
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Ingår i: VILÄR. - 9788409345496 ; , s. 13-14
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Med allt högre krav på ett hållbart samhälle ökar behoven av en snabb och innovativ produktion med högteknologiska lösningar och ökad kompetens för att möta framtidens digitala transformation. Industrin står därmed inför stora behov av kompetens och tillgång till akademisk spjutspetsutbildning i flexibla former. Kraven på en effektiv produktion efterfrågar nya kunskaper inom områdena, produktionsteknik, digital produktion (I4.0), elektrifiering men även hållbart ledarskap. Det gäller både tekniska djupkunskaper och hur organisationen kan tar tillvara interdisciplinära kunskaper för att möjliggöra tekniklösningar för en hållbar industri. Studier visar dock en diskrepans mellan företagens förmåga att definiera kompetensbehov och akademins svårigheter att möta rätt nivå och innehåll. I Västsvenska handelskammarens rapport framgår det generellt att utbildningssystemet inte är anpassat för yrkesverksamma i näringslivet. Matchningsproblematiken mellan industri-akademi är mångfacetterad och det finns skillnader avseende definition av ämnesinnehåll, flexibla kursformer, organisationskultur, etc. Forskning visar att arbetsplatser efterfrågar både procedurkunskap (veta hur) för rutinbaserade och repetitiva uppgifter och konceptuell kunskap (veta att), som bygger på djupförståelse.Studiens syfte är att synliggöra industrins perspektiv på kompetensmatchning och den utgår ifrån en behovsinventering genomförd under 2021, i projektet ExSus, Hållbar och digitaliserad produktion, vid Högskolan Väst. 15 teknikchefer inom större SMF-företag intervjuades (konsult- och tillverkningsindustri) om kompetensbehov och utmaningar med digitalisering och hållbar produktion. Resultaten är mångfacetterade och visar behov av specifik och omedelbar kunskap, medan andra efterfrågar generellt lärande om Industri 4.0 (maskinlärande, sakernas internet, sensorteknik mm). Vidare finns det behov av AI (Artificiell Intelligens), fast man upplever problem med applicering. Allt fler efterfrågar kunskap utifrån ett organisations- och ledningsperspektiv, för generell förståelse, samt användning och nytta med teknologiutvecklingen, exempelvis överbryggningsutbildningar inom AI, maskinlärande och hållbar produktion i praktiken. Några efterlyser tydligare kommunikation och större samordning mellan utbildningsaktörer. Högskolan Västs nya projekt ExSus och tidigare kompetensutvecklingsprojekt, t ex ProdEx visar dock lyckade satsningar. Sammantaget finns det fortfarande ett glapp mellan akademins excellens och företagens behov av djupkunskap utifrån ett flexibelt och arbetsintegrerat lärande. Detta talar för kontinuerlig kompetensmatchning för att skapa synergier, tvärvetenskaplighet och ökad samproduktion mellan industri och akademi
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- Carlsson, Linnea, et al.
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Desperately seeking industrial digital strategy : a dynamic capability approach
- 2021
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Ingår i: International Journal of Information Systems and Change Management. - : Inderscience Publishers. - 1479-3121 .- 1479-313X. ; 12:4, s. 345-364
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study focuses on managers’ perceptions of organisational capabilities for strategy formulation related to industrial digitalisation. A qualitative case study based on ten interviews in two manufacturing companies explores managers’ perceptions of industrial digitalisation. A dynamic capability framework, consisting of the organisational capabilities sensing, seizing, and transforming opportunities, is applied to recognise and analyse nuances in managers’ interpretation of prevailing organisational capabilities. Findings reveal that the studied companies have a limited maturity concerning knowledge, skills, and resources for industrial digitalisation which is needed in order to formulate a digital strategy. An additional core capability was discerned, i.e., ’seeking’. Seeking includes actions for articulating, appropriating, and involving in the very early phases of understanding and formulating a digital strategy. This article contributes to the existing dynamic capability framework by adding the core capability seeking illustrated in an elaborated and holistic ’dynamic capability loop’. The loop frames industrial digitalisation as a continuous process closely integrated with strategy formulation.
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- Carlsson, Linnea
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Social Aspects of Strategizing Industrial Digitalization
- 2023
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis aims to contribute to understanding how contemporary Swedish manufacturing organizations can strategize industrial digitalization with an emerging focus on social aspects. It complements earlier research by highlighting Swedish manufacturing organizations as they stand at the intersection of Industry 4.0 and Industry 5.0.The thesis is a longitudinal case study of interviews and focus groups between early 2019 and spring 2023. The case study follows an explorative approach to give texture to industrial digitalization and to understand the social aspects of strategizing industrial digitalization. It is limited to the Swedish context and the characteristics of original equipment manufacturers.The thesis contributes by texturizing industrial digitalization through three social aspects, which are argued to be a way for manufacturing organizations to give shape to industrial digitalization. The social aspects elaborated on and presented in this thesis are: to look beyond digital technologies, to formalize a shared understanding, and to transcend organizational structures. These social aspects are thematic but also interlinked. Together, these social aspects bring insights into how managers can guide the organizational capabilities to ensure synergy between an organization’s actions and objectives when strategizing industrial digitalization. Strategizing industrial digitalization should, therefore, be texturized by each organization to define and redefine its organizational capabilities. This means each organization's social aspects are unique, making the manufacturing organizations' capabilities unique.
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- Eriksson, Kristina M., 1976-, et al.
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Participants Perspectives and Results from Competence Development Courses for Industrial Work Integrated Learning
- 2019
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Ingår i: VILÄR 5-6 december 2019, University West, Trollhättan. - Trollhättan : University West. ; , s. 7-8
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In a work practice of constant implementation of new manufacturing processes, competence development becomes crucial for practitioners within engineering fields such as production systems, additive manufacturing, industry 4.0 and machine learning. Industrial work is transforming and practitioners constantly need to learn both integrated in work practice and through flexible education.Given this, the purpose of this study is to analyse how participants engage in a unique initiative where courses targeting competence development for manufacturing industry have been co-constructed between one university and a network of companies. The longitudinal initiative (2013-ongoing) focus industry knowledge needs and e-learning design aiming for industrial work integrated learning. Over time a course format of five-week flexible e-learning courses of 2.5 ECTS, on master level, has evolved, and 30 courses within e.g. robotics, additive manufacturing and industrial digitalization, have been designed.The uniqueness lies in the opportunities continuously taken for co-construction of course design throughout and this has brought about a combination of different practices for collaboration between academia and industry. Course participants perspectives are specifically explored through focus group studies and a questionnaire survey. Between 2014 and spring 2019 a total of 367 participants took part in focus group sessions at the end of each course instance. The questionnaire was distributed in spring 2019 to 638 individuals and the response rate was 12% (77 respondents) of which 56 had completed one or more courses. While the response rate of the questionnaire is low, results confirm the findings from the focus group studies and indicates new aspects for further study.Outcomes from the focus groups show that practitioners feel that their own motives for learning are key for course participation. This is corroborated by the questionnaire results where 79% say they apply for the courses with ambition to study built on their own desire. The flexible e-learning format including virtual laboratories, web-conferencing and practical cases, is essential when combining full time work with competence development. This coupled with 89% of the questionnaire respondents finding the course content useful in relation to their own work, indicates the uniqueness of the initiative. Challenges persisting are the university's lack of capacity to swiftly respond to companies' skills needs and the nurture and development of the growing network that requires continued coordination. However, participants perspectives reveal the potential of how to empower co-construction of knowledge for industrial work integrated learning.
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- Griva, Anastasia, et al.
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Making space for time : Strategies for the design of time‐aware hybrid work
- 2024
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Ingår i: Information Systems Journal. - 1350-1917 .- 1365-2575.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Time is central to many debates about hybrid work - the impact on speed and productivity, commute times, and synchronisation of work. However, we argue that time is often over-simplified in extant hybrid work literature and tends to ignore many temporal concepts that capture the inherently complex, multifaceted, subtle, and socially embedded nature of time.To address this issue, we conducted studies of five hybrid work teams across two large organisations. The paper contributes to current research on hybrid work by (i) illustrating the various temporal concepts that may be considered in the design of hybrid work environments, as well as the impact of considering or not considering them; (ii) illustrating how these temporal concepts in a physical space can be augmented in the digital space, rather than assuming the digital space should simply represent the physical; and (iii) providing a framework for the consideration of time–aware hybrid work. We hope to spark scientific interest in studying the temporal nuances of hybrid work but also the temporal aspects of design in other areas.
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- Hattinger, Monika, 1969-, et al.
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Action design research : Design of e-WIL for the manufacturing industry
- 2015
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Ingår i: 2015 Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2015. - : Americas Conference on Information Systems. ; , s. 1-14
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper reports on a design process of e-learning courses for competence development of experienced employees in the manufacturing industry. Through a crossorganizational collaborative action design research project the aim was to design e-learning courses at university level to support work-integrated learning. Two designand learning cycles were evaluated over two years. The first cycle identified challenges that were applied to a pilot course in Industrial automation. From evaluation of this course we derived design principles applied to two further courses in Machining and Negotiation skills. The results from our empirical data suggest general principles as competence mapping work, collaborative manufacturing e-WIL cases and interactive learning technologies for design of e-WIL courses as boundary crossing activities to reach transformative learning integrated in the manufacturing industry.
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- Hattinger, Monika, 1969-, et al.
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Aspects of Knowledge Transformation in Industry-Union-University Collaborations : A study of Work-integrated e-Learning courses target Norwegian industry
- 2018
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Ingår i: VILÄR Abstraktbok. - Trollhättan : Högskolan Väst. - 9789187531460 - 9789187531477 ; , s. 10-10
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The focus in this study is on knowledge transformation in the workplace following substantial competence initiatives through blended e-learning at the university level. Competence development on academic level is a key factor for industries in times of increased digitalization of manufacturing work. To develop competitive manufacturing requires employees with expert knowledge, which professional organisations need to strengthening. Even if individual employees' motivation for learning is essential, management need to put efforts on competence development and encourage education that, combine theory and practice in forms of work integrated learning. Blended e-learning courses on university level has been successful for supporting such competence development needs, which here is described as work-integrated e-learning, e-WIL. In this study, we explore practitioners' knowledge transformation after their participation in blended e-WIL courses that are designed with industry target content aiming for workplace transformations. Specifically, we focus on the learning efforts versus the management strategies after e-learning initiatives that have an effect on workplace transformations.The industry target courses in the case study, are designed in collaboration between an industry-union-university venture of a Norwegian industry network, the Addiscounion and a Swedish university. Six courses are included comprising three knowledge subjects; Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Engineering Tools, and Robotics and Automation. Addisco was the facilitator for engaging industry university collaboration, and stimulated co-creation between industry companies. Data was collected through a longitudinal action research project, comprising six focus group sessions with 113 industry participants during 2015 and 2018. We analysed the company management support of knowledge transformation through the course participants' manifestations of experiences in focus groups, conducted after each course intervention. Overall results show that most participants experience a low management support of knowledge transformation as an engine for workplace transformation, after conducting e-WIL courses. Stimulation of individual motivation and new skills gained were not promoted within the workplace structures. There seem to be a lack of individual competence plans, time for studies, business models and routines, networking and recognition of the individuals' knowledge transformation. Rather, participants claimed their individual responsibilities, and motivation that drives them to further competence development. We therefore argue for stronger management awareness and designed learning models, to develop company strategies that fully appreciate the benefits and new knowledge that industry participants bring back into the workplace after course participation.
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