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Journal of Competitiveness

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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