A collaboration context ontology to enhance human-related collaboration into Industry 4.0

AbstractThe advent of Industry 4.0 where humans and intelligent machines coexist, allows machines to assist humans on production lines. During such processes, humans work with other humans and/or machines to produce the required products, forming human-related collaborations. Therefore, Industry 4.0 goes beyond a digital ecosystem by being considered as a System of Information Systems which matches heterogeneous systems. This heterogeneity causes poor information interoperability, weakening the effectiveness of collaboration. This poses an issue: how to facilitate human-related collaborations on production lines into Industry 4.0? Addressing it requires better information interoperability and the definition of indicators that can be used to generate recommendations during collaborations. In this article, we focus on indicators of collaboration context and integrate them into a collaboration context ontology to enhance human-related collaborations into Industry 4.0. We then show how to use it in generating context-aware collaborator recommendations.
Source: Cognition, Technology and Work - Category: Information Technology Source Type: research