CURRENT AND FUTURE INDUSTRIAL CHALLENGES: DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE AND MEASURES FOR ELDERLY WORKERS IN INDUSTRY 4.0

Future production is envisioned to be characterized by highly complex, varying and knowledge-intensive work processes, where the human more than ever will be in need for support and technological assistance. At the same time demographic change leads to a higher share of elderly workers with different abilities and needs. In this paper we present the results of a study we conducted with manufacturing companies in Austria. We discuss future work activities, the demographic challenge, age-related changes of human work ability, and the role age-appropriate work design and standardization as well as assisting systems can play to enable elderly workers for such a future industrial work setting.

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