Industry 4.0 solutions are considered holistically to overcome stumbling blocks during implementation
The research project SORISMA - ‘Socio-technical risk management during the introduction of Industry 4.0’ systematises the interrelationships between the factors of technology, organisation and people and helps companies to minimise risks during the introduction of Industry 4.0.
Industry 4.0, the intelligent networking of machines and entire processes, brings companies many advantages and will be an important success factor for their profitability in the future. However, implementation is an extensive process. It is not limited to the introduction of new technologies, but has a major impact on the entire organisation. For example, investing in intelligent assembly assistants in production will only pay off if the assistant fits in well with the employees' work processes and is accepted by them.
Tried and tested methods for companies
In the three-year research project, Fraunhofer IEM, Fraunhofer IML, the Heinz Nixdorf Institute at Paderborn University, Unity AG and myview systems are developing methods that companies can use to analyse the impact of Industry 4.0 on their entire value chain and identify and assess potential risks. When introducing Industry 4.0 technologies, companies then benefit from methods with which they can monitor and control potential risks.
The user companies Thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions, with Systemarmaturen, westaflex and Beulco provide important foundations for this. They contribute their previous experience with Industry 4.0, as well as their wishes and requirements, thus ensuring the practical relevance of the research content.
In future, interested companies will be able to access all project results via an online tool, study pilot projects and work with the methods. In addition, the SORISMA partners are working with trade unions such as IG Metall NRW and networks such as the it's OWL technology network and the Mittelstand-Kompetenzzentrum Digital in NRW to disseminate the project results and obtain feedback from the field.
myview systems enables access to all project results via an online platform
myview develops the online platform and stores the necessary data and algorithms in a knowledge base. At the same time, a gamification approach is realised on the platform, allowing companies to experience the research results in a ‘playful’ way.
Stumbling blocks for the successful introduction of Industry 4.0 are often risks between technology, organisation and people that are difficult to assess. SORISMA will develop methods with which companies can identify these interrelationships at an early stage and recognise and minimise potential risks. This will enable them to successfully introduce Industry 4.0 in the long term
Project profile:
Duration: 07/2019 to 06/2022
Total funding volume: €2.7 million
Funding: European Regional Development Fund NRW, LeitmarktAgentur.NRW
Co-operation partner:
- Fraunhofer Institute for Mechatronic Design Technology IEM
- Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML
- Heinz Nixdorf Institute of the University of Paderborn
- BEULCO
- MIT - Modern Industrial Technology
- myview systems
- thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions
- UNITY AG
- Westaflex
Website: www.sorisma.de
SORISMA will provide small and medium-sized companies in particular with a valuable toolbox of methods and best practices for the risk-optimised introduction of socio-technical Industry 4.0 solutions. Even without investing heavily in their own innovation and development activities, they will have access to tried-and-tested research results
Objective:
- Risk assessment: Provision and selection of suitable methods and key figures for assessing socio-technical risks
- Risk management Risk analysis: Analysis of practice-relevant risk potentials for Industry 4.0 use cases in the areas of technology, organisation and people along the entire value chain
- Risk management: Derivation of socio-technical risk minimisation principles and individual recommendations for action
- Risk monitoring: definition of indicators for implementation and premise controlling
- End-to-end tool support for applying the results on an online platform
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The project is being funded by the European Regional Development Fund NRW (EFRE.NRW), among others, for a period of three years
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