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Up-Skilling for Industry 5.0 Roll-Out (Up-Skill)

Project
The 4th Industrial Revolution/Industry 4.0 has enabled reduction of production costs, improved consistency of product quality and enabled mass customisation by merging the physical and digital worlds. The transition is still ongoing - Industry 4.0 is a general-purpose technology, adding value across all industrial sectors. However, the perception of Industry 4.0 at a human level has not all been positive. It has been plagued by fear of job cuts and in some sectors completely replacing the human workforce. Automation projects have often failed due to omitting the critical skilled human elements in business success with unintended consequences including reduced customer satisfaction, poorer product quality and lower process efficiency. Automation alone clearly cannot be a source of sustained competitive advantage. I5.0 will address the balance between humans and technology, focussing on the collaborative relationship between skilled workers and automation. The intent is reinstate skilled craftsmanship at the centre of production processes where people add unique value and competitive advantage, augmented by intelligent, data-driven technology emerging from Industry 4.0. In the Up-Skill project, we will address the implications of Industry 5.0, in particular the relationship between automation, skilled work and organisational systems. Our research will establish how the relationship between automation and human input plays out in a range of industrial settings, creating comparative case studies to capture effective implementation strategies. We will address under-explored strategic spaces in production - where automation adds value to skilled and artisanal work, and where further automation risks undermining product value. This research will identify the shifting organisational characteristics that are needed to ensure technology advancements are implemented within companies while ensuring sustainable, added value for man, machine, and organisation.
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Overview

Contributors

TORALDO MARIA LAURA   Scientific Manager  

Departments involved

Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi Quantitativi   Principale  

Type

Horizon Europe Global Challenge-RIA/IA/CSA

Funder

EUROPEAN COMMISSION
External Organization Funding Organization

Date/time interval

September 1, 2022 - August 31, 2025

Project duration

36 months

Research Areas

Concepts


Settore SECS-P/10 - Organizzazione Aziendale

Publications

Outputs (2)

Leisure, hustle and career: Informal skills acquisition in accordion repairing 
MANAGEMENT LEARNING
SAGE JOURNALS
2025
Academic Article
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Navigating political minefields: applying frames of reference of the employment relation to access negotiations to workplace ethnographies 
JOURNAL OF ORGANIZATIONAL ETHNOGRAPHY
EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING
2024
Academic Article
Partially Open Access
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