Abstract
The competitiveness of modern companies depends today on the ability to implement digitised technologies into production processes in human-friendly ways. The aim of this paper is to analyse ethical aspects of human-cobot cooperation in industrial production and to design a process standard aimed at ensuring an ethically stable cooperative workplace. The scientific contribution of this study lies in the identification and definition of standardized parameters of the ethics of the production process in the workplace. Based on the analysis of cooperative workplaces in 250 industrial companies, a code of ethics has been defined, i.e. a process standard that determines the navigation of the design by selected optimization criteria necessary for setting up a hybrid workplace defined as human and cobot (collaborative robot) with the support of digitised technologies. In the presented results and the final discussion attention is devoted to the need to radically change the philosophy of workplace standardization in the sense of equal access to workload settings by humans and robots. In the process of standardization, it is necessary to consider the difference in the standardization of human jobs and cobot jobs: the thinking process. In modern industrial companies the need has arisen to create working standards that take into account the adaptive ability of cobots and adapt the cobots’ workflow to human needs concerning performance and productivity. The presented results include recommendations for industrial companies to develop an ethical and stable production workplace based on an adequately defined form of cooperation.
Highlights
Today industrial companies are confronted with the gradual onset of digitised processes to improve their competitiveness
Industrial companies are today faced with the requirement of instituting digitised processes, which will radically increase the demands for ethical process standardization (Zhao & Oh, 2020)
Our initial scientific analysis necessary for establishing a human and cobot cooperation ethics process and management concept of production workplace was focused on the identification of the following assumptions: yy Mutual human-cobot cooperation in the production workplace is directly dependent on an adequate level of standardized processes
Summary
Today industrial companies are confronted with the gradual onset of digitised processes to improve their competitiveness. Industrial companies are today faced with the requirement of instituting digitised processes, which will radically increase the demands for ethical process standardization (Zhao & Oh, 2020) Related to this is the question of how to design, organize, and manage workplaces where human-robot cooperation takes place. Corporate IT and production system architects are examining workplaces, especially in terms of the many types of human activities, with a lower quality of productivity and final performance often being shown. In this context, it is essential to investigate the potential risks of cobot and human job conflict at the workplace. Our initial scientific analysis necessary for establishing a human and cobot cooperation ethics process and management concept of production workplace was focused on the identification of the following assumptions: yy Mutual human-cobot cooperation in the production workplace is directly dependent on an adequate level of standardized processes
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