Axiomatic design approach for human-robot collaboration in flexibly linked assembly layouts

The fluctuation of markets and increasing product variants result in uncertain production volumes. Production systems must be able to continually rescale their output without loss of efficiency. This paper presents an axiomatic design approach to allocate complex final assembly tasks to process modules of human-robot collaboration in a flexibly linked layout. After a brief introduction into axiomatic design and the automation capability assessment, the systematic of task allocation to human workers and lightweight robots is described. This paper concludes with an automotive industry use case of the presented approach in the ARENA2036 research campus.