Recently, technology has allowed us to dive deeper into the workings of human body and brain during physical manufacturing operations. This enables new insights and also design options to improve the wellbeing and productivity of human manufacturing workers, collaborating increasingly with robots and automation technology. As the role of human operators is changing towards oversight, performance and safety management, the issue of understanding human cognitive workload as main capacity and bottleneck of a production system is increasingly important for any manufacturing process in many industries. This is connected to the human-centric vision of “Industry 5.0” by the European Commission, fostering competitiveness, sustainability and resilience of manufacturing in Italy and Europe.

REFEREE:
Matthias Klumpp, docente di Human-System Interaction in Operations, Department of Management Engineering (DIG)