Keeping personnel motivated and overall company morale high is a crucial aspect of employee satisfaction. In manufacturing, various tasks can be found that can put a strain on personnel, one of them being the so-called ramp-up process. Ramp-up requires human intervention to bring a system to full production, but the process of achieving a successful ramp-up can be very cumbersome and lengthy. As this is usually a trial-and-error approach, spirits can get very low over time if the situation appears to only be slowly improving. For this purpose, gamification is introduced into the ramp-up process for Industry 4.0 to improve the ramp-up experience for operators. This paper offers an overview of the idea, current and future work of a web application for ramp-up that includes the major principles of gamification. The presented work is part of an ongoing student project work undertaken with the Intelligent Automation Centre at Loughborough University.
History
School
Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Published in
UKRAS20 Conference: “Robots into the real world” Proceedings
Pages
125 - 127
Source
UK-Robotics and Autonomous Systems 2020 (UK-RAS20)
Publisher
EPSRC UK-Robotics and Autonomous Systems (UK-RAS) Network
Version
AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publisher statement
This paper was accepted for publication in the UKRAS20 Conference: “Robots into the real world” Proceedings and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.31256/Jp9Yd3M.