Human and Cobot Cooperation Ethics: The Process Management Concept of the Production Workplace
Felicita Chromjakova, Damien Trentesaux, Michael Adu Kwarteng
Keywords:
process, ethics, workplace, productivity, human-machine cooperation
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.
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 10.7441/joc.2021.03.02
Chromjakova, F., Trentesaux, D., & Kwarteng, M. A. (2021). Human and Cobot Cooperation Ethics:
The Process Management Concept of the Production Workplace. Journal of Competitiveness, 13(3), 21–38. https://doi.org/10.7441/joc.2021.03.02
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