Reliable Autonomous Production Systems: Combining Industrial Engineering Methods and Situation Awareness Modelling in Critical Realist Design of Autonomous Production Systems
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Work Characteristics’ Challenges to Reliable High-Level Autonomous Production
2.1. Work Setting
2.1.1. Overview
2.1.2. Manufacturing Industry
2.1.3. Construction Industry
2.2. Work Composition
2.2.1. Overview
2.2.2. Manufacturing Industry
2.2.3. Construction Industry
2.3. Work Certainty
2.3.1. Overview
2.3.2. Manufacturing Industry
2.3.3. Construction Industry
2.4. Strong and Weak Opportunities for Reliable High-Level Autonomous Production
3. Critical Realist Framework for Improving Autonomous Production Reliability
3.1. Critical Realism
3.2. Industrial Engineering Methods
3.3. Situation Awareness Modelling
3.4. Combination of Methods and Modelling within a Critical Realist Framework
4. Conclusions
4.1. Implications for Theory Building
4.2. Implications for Applied Research
4.3. Implications for Practice
4.4. Principal Contributions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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Phases of Physical Production | Opportunity | ||
---|---|---|---|
Strength | Work Characteristic Issues | ||
Manufacturing industry | Raw materials extraction | Weak | Work setting: Low economic viability of engineering out irregularity effects |
Converting raw materials | Strong | Work setting, composition, and certainty facilitate reliability | |
Manufacturing parts | Strong | Work setting, composition, and certainty facilitate reliability | |
Assembling goods | Variable | Work certainty: ATO and ETO low technical feasibility of transfer learning | |
Construction industry | Raw materials extraction | Weak | Work setting: Low economic viability of engineering out irregularity effects |
Site works | Weak | Work setting: Low economic viability of engineering out irregularity effects | |
Continuous processes | Medium | Work setting, composition and certainty require engineering effort | |
Combining components | Weak | Work setting, composition and certainty do not facilitate reliability |
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Fox, S. Reliable Autonomous Production Systems: Combining Industrial Engineering Methods and Situation Awareness Modelling in Critical Realist Design of Autonomous Production Systems. Systems 2018, 6, 26. https://doi.org/10.3390/systems6030026
Fox S. Reliable Autonomous Production Systems: Combining Industrial Engineering Methods and Situation Awareness Modelling in Critical Realist Design of Autonomous Production Systems. Systems. 2018; 6(3):26. https://doi.org/10.3390/systems6030026
Chicago/Turabian StyleFox, Stephen. 2018. "Reliable Autonomous Production Systems: Combining Industrial Engineering Methods and Situation Awareness Modelling in Critical Realist Design of Autonomous Production Systems" Systems 6, no. 3: 26. https://doi.org/10.3390/systems6030026