About this Research Topic
Pervasive digitalization and advanced robotics have fueled interest in innovative human-machine integration and sophisticated organizational transformation that help address sustainability challenges. The data-driven approach to modeling and decision-making has grown in popularity over the past decade, along with a new generation of AI (artificial intelligence), based on ML (machine learning), generating great excitement and promising improved solutions. Complementing technology and data-driven approaches for developing industrial systems, the human factors approach provides a human-centric systems perspective while analyzing overall system performance, considering technology and the organizational dimensions.
Recent developments in software and technology have not commonly been placed within the context of developments in the discipline of human factors and ergonomics, although it is widely recognized that the management of complex systems benefits from the consideration of human-centric perspectives starting from the design phase. The constellation of problems that this research topic addresses is centered around the challenges of sustainability and resilience focusing on industrial systems and organizations at large. Practical approaches have been lacking in the literature, to accelerate the leaping forward from a fragmented view of seemingly disparate perspectives on industrial systems: technological, human, and managerial (organizational) towards a unified systems perspective. Therefore, there is a need to understand how to combine seemingly disparate recent developments in human factors and organizational design and management with the power of data-driven and technological advances to harness system improvements that foster dynamic and performance-based goal attainment as well as the achievement of goals derived from the long-term values of an organization.
The Research Topic is seeking original research contributions placed at any stage of the industrial systems lifecycle, and taking a level of analysis ranging from the microsystem to the macrosystem, within the framework of Industry 5.0 (resilient, sustainable and human-centric industry). Themes within this research topic’s problematic include:
• Resilience engineering in industrial operations
• Adoption of the systems view in advancing sustainability of industrial
operations
• Social sustainability as a driver in operations development
• Organization design and management in the Industry 5.0 era
• Human-machine integration within the Industry 5.0 concept
• Empowerment, situational awareness, agility and leadership in
Industry 5.0
Recent developments in software and technology have not commonly been placed within the context of developments in the discipline of human factors and ergonomics, although it is widely recognized that the management of complex systems benefits from the consideration of human-centric perspectives starting from the design phase. The constellation of problems that this research topic addresses is centered around the challenges of sustainability and resilience focusing on industrial systems and organizations at large. Practical approaches have been lacking in the literature, to accelerate the leaping forward from a fragmented view of seemingly disparate perspectives on industrial systems: technological, human, and managerial (organizational) towards a unified systems perspective. Therefore, there is a need to understand how to combine seemingly disparate recent developments in human factors and organizational design and management with the power of data-driven and technological advances to harness system improvements that foster dynamic and performance-based goal attainment as well as the achievement of goals derived from the long-term values of an organization.
The Research Topic is seeking original research contributions placed at any stage of the industrial systems lifecycle, and taking a level of analysis ranging from the microsystem to the macrosystem, within the framework of Industry 5.0 (resilient, sustainable and human-centric industry). Themes within this research topic’s problematic include:
• Resilience engineering in industrial operations
• Adoption of the systems view in advancing sustainability of industrial
operations
• Social sustainability as a driver in operations development
• Organization design and management in the Industry 5.0 era
• Human-machine integration within the Industry 5.0 concept
• Empowerment, situational awareness, agility and leadership in
Industry 5.0
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