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P. Kopacek:
"Trends in Production Automation";
in: "Proceedings of TECIS 2019", IFAC PapersOnLine 52-25; P. Kopacek, L. Stapleton, A. Topalov (ed.); issued by: International Federation of Automatic Control - IFAC; Elsevier B.V., Netherlands, 2019, 509 - 512.

Process - and manufacturing automation as well as robotics are currently one of the fastest growing fields in automation. Cyber-physical systems, industry 4.0 and "advanced robots" are not longer a headline. Production 4.0 is in realization but production 5.0 is knocking on the door. Production 4.5 was introduced one year ago as an immediate step for small and medium enterprises. They are some first dreams on production 6.0. An important part of production automation is (semi) automated assembly. This topic is currently only outlined in the literature with some description of laboratory tests. Concerning of one of the scopes of TECIS "End of life management - EoL" an important part (semi) automated disassembly is currently missing in all of these concepts. Therefore in this contribution first ideas on (semi) automated disassembly 4.0 including new tasks for "advanced" robots will be given and shortly discussed. As a consequence of these developments new social, ethical and human questions appear.

Manufacturing Automation, Robots, Social aspects, Ethics.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2019.12.595

https://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/publik_287833.pdf