Craftmanship 4.0 through augmented fabrication.

Industry 4.0 focuses on cyber-physical manufacturing systems. Most of the applications are focused on engineering topics, such as instrumentation, data processing and digital twinning, adaptability by flexible automation (sensing/robots), servitisation of capital goods, and logistics. The emerging Industry 5.0 trend, in which this project fits, puts an additional focus on extending human skills and wellbeing by human-centred design research For this, we adopt the paradigm of the "Wise Chisel": location and situation-aware support that extends traditional making with computational models. These are presented to the user using augmented reality and other contemporary digital design tools. This pilot project is aiming in establishing a framework for wise chisels, with new (publishable) insights through experimental work planned in the coming year, as well as co-organising workshops on modern craftmanship to engage (inter)national industry and vocational learning organisations/public institutions (at Cumulus conference 2023 and one yet to be determined in late 2023). Our aim is to gather a community around this framework and propose new research avenues that could benefit the Horizon Europe societal challenges destination: "A human-centred and ethical development of digital and industrial technologies".

Keywords:DESIGN RESEARCH, LABOUR QUALITY, ROBOT MOTION

Disciplines:Craft design, Product design