Abstract
This paper aims to bridge the gap between research into lean production, Zero Defect Manufacturing (ZDM) and Human Centered Manufacturing (HCM) to show a path towards what the European Union has defined as “Industry 5.0”. The worker inclusive, sustainable, and digital future of industry. Inspired by the concept of “Jidoka”, first developed by Sakichi Toyoda in the early 1920s as he worked to make loom operators work less strenuous, and the recent advances in Human Centered Manufacturing we present a research path towards a concept of Smart Collaboration, a novel approach to zero-defect and zero-waste manufacturing that aims to leverage the skills and ingenuity of people with Artificial Intelligence. To develop the concept we have carried out a Rapid Literature Review of human/machine collaboration in both the extant lean literature, as well as in Zero Defect Manufacturing and in Human Centered Manufacturing. Then we looked for thematic trends in the papers reviewed on approaching human/machine collaboration, and finally we draw from the findings a path towards a new concept of Smart Collaboration for zero-waste and zero-defect manufacturing. The results from the review show how human-machine collaboration is addressed from a multitude of subjects, such as materials and wearables, robotics and enabling technology. However, our results also show that researchers are yet to consider the human rationality in human-machine collaboration, and we suggest that further work should be done to address this.
