Abstract
Bicycle production has not changed much over the last 100 years, it is still performed mainly by manual labor in mass production. During the global pandemic, the demand for ecologically friendly and customized transport has increased. Hence, customers start to impose the same requirements on bikes as on cars: they want more customized products and short delivery time. This publication describes an approach to transform bicycle manufacturing towards human-robot co-production to enable smaller batch sizes and production on-shoring. We list the challenges of this transformation, our applied methods, and presents preliminary results of the cobot-driven prototypes.
Highlights
ChallengesSince machines produce a similar level of quality, human errors in production can be reduced, which should lead to a higher "first time right" rate, a KPI (key performance indicator) that is already measured
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Summary
Since machines produce a similar level of quality, human errors in production can be reduced, which should lead to a higher "first time right" rate, a KPI (key performance indicator) that is already measured This will result in lowering of manufacturing costs, contributing to increased productivity. The project will apply a responsible innovation process This means, that the entire socio-technical system is regarded and worker worries like "Will I be replaced by robots and lose my job?" will be addressed. This step of our approach aims to secure innovation by incorporating the worker’s voice into cobot solutions and making sure that they are ready to accept the change. This is why we think that our approach systematically increases the sustainability of the production
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