Cognitive Assistance Systems For Dynamic Environments

Abstract

In production companies, manual assembly tasks are still indispensable when complex products are assembled in a dynamic environment. Since the tasks are becoming more complex and more versatile, the employees need more support during the execution of their work. Cognitive assistance systems are used to support the employee in decision-making. The humans rely on predefined process descriptions and the systems provide the user (employee) with the right information for the current process. Due to their limitations, most of the cognitive assistance systems are not suitable for the use in dynamic environments such as the rework. This article presents a solution to introduce a cognitive assistance system in dynamic environments such as the rework area, in order to assure manual assembly processes through employee centered assistance.