3rd Webinar of Applied Sciences
Challenges and Opportunities for the Design and Development of Human-Centric Systems Towards Industry 5.0
Manufacturing and Production Industries are currently being reshaped in an attempt to integrate the new Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the existing workplaces. This shift has been encapsulated by several initiatives around the world, most commonly known as the "Industry 4.0". Manufacturing and Production systems can be connected, and most importantly can interact with virtual environments, by analyzing data and making decisions based on complex numerical simulation models. However, since the European Commission released its Industry 5.0 Policy in 2021, several research efforts focused on the comparison of Industry 4.0, Industry 5.0 and Society 5.0 as well. The comparison extends to the validity of Industry 5.0. The ongoing Fourth Industrial Revolution is technology-focused. On the other hand, Industry 5.0 (or Society 5.0 with Japanese perspective) is a more value-driven approach, towards the implementation of the available enabling technologies in industry. This new model is based on three interconnected core pillars as follows: human-centricity, sustainability, and resilience. Additionally, in Industry 5.0, the human-centric approach emphasizes that people have the right to decide what happens to them disregarding the fear of coercion or compulsion. It can be convincingly argued that the data generated about humans (including the social existence and the community as a whole) is inextricably linked to the lived personhood of any and every human being in the digital age. As a result, new "digital human/operator rights" are surfacing, and the human-centric paradigm is built on them. As such, Human-Centricity is a new way of thinking about data management and its possibilities in terms of data generation in manufacturing and focuses on key terms such as (self)sovereignty, self-determination, self-governance, autonomy, agency and so on. Therefore, the importance of Industry 5.0 should be further highlighted. In this context, the contribution of this presentation is focused on the transition from Industry 4.0 to Industry 5.0 taking into account the key technologies that can be used to enhance the abilities of the new generation of human operators, also known as Operator 5.0.
Date: 8 March 2022
Time: 3:00 pm CET丨9:00 am EST丨10:00 pm CST Asia
Webinar ID: 899 0630 9675
Webinar Secretariat: applsci.webinar@mdpi.com