TY  - CHAP
U1  - Konferenzveröffentlichung
A1  - Bonini, Marco
A1  - Urru, Augusto
A1  - Echelmeyer, Wolfgang
T1  - The quality interaction function deployment for lean human-robot interaction
T2  - 2019 24th International Conference on Methods and Models in Automation and Robotics (MMAR)
N2  - In standardized sectors such as the automotive, the cost-benefit ratio of automation solutions is high as they contribute to increase capacity, decrease costs and improve product quality. In less standardized application fields, the contribution of automation to improvements in capacity, cost and quality blurs. The automation of complex and unstructured tasks requires sophisticated, expensive and low-performing systems, whose impact on product quality is oftentimes not directly perceived by customers. As a result, the full automation of process chains in the general manufacturing or the logistic sectors is often a sub optimal solution. Taking the distance from the false idea that a process should be either fully automated, or fully manual, this paper presents a novel heuristic method for design of lean human-robot interaction, the Quality Interaction Function Deployment, with the objective of the “right level of automation”. Functions are divided among human and automated agents and several automation scenarios are created and evaluated with respect to their compliance to the requirements of all process´ stakeholders. As a result, synergies among operators (manual tasks) and machines (automated tasks) are improved, thus reducing time-losses and increasing productivity.
KW  - process design
KW  - HRI
KW  - lean automation
KW  - QFD
Y1  - 2019
SN  - 978-1-72810-933-6
SB  - 978-1-72810-933-6
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1109/MMAR.2019.8864667
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1109/MMAR.2019.8864667
SP  - 145
EP  - 151
S1  - 7
PB  - IEEE
CY  - Piscataway, NJ
ER  -