Current developments of modern production systems mostly focus on technical solutions and often do not consider the integration of human stakeholders into the system. This paper investigates cyber-physical production systems from a human-centric perspective. The idea of cyber physical production system is evaluated concerning level of codetermination, participation, needed qualification, limitation and possible personal development. By identifying their weaknesses regarding human-centric design, implications for the design of modern production systems are derived. These implications are used for the practical implementation of dedicated requirements. Based on a change management driven approach production employees and engineers are involved in a collaborative way. Findings of the implementation regarding their applicability are used for the derivation of generalized design rules for the development of human-centric cyber-physical production systems.