Erwin Rauch

TL;DR: It is found that Industry 4.0 technologies mainly influence technological, organizational, geographical and cognitive proximity dimensions, which presents benefits and challenges for CSCs.

TL;DR: Main research themes addressed in the recent scientific literature regarding safety and ergonomics for industrial collaborative robotics were identified and categorized and the emerging research challenges and research fields were identified based on the development of publications over time (annual growth).

TL;DR: A systematic literature review (SLR) of the anthropocentric perspective of production before and after (or, better, within) Industry 4.0 is presented, and prediction of the future role of the human operator, his needed knowledge and capabilities and how assistance systems support the Operator 4.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the range of the concept of distributed manufacturing starting from standardized factories to visionary generative manufacturing units according to cloud-production and give a complete overview of traditional and modern forms of geographically distributed production and the prospect of new and partly visionary development directions.

TL;DR: In this article, a preliminary study of the suitability of existing lean methods for the application in this type of organization is presented, combined with an industrial case study in a small enterprise to analyse the difficulties in the implementation stage and to identify the critical success factors.