Title
Helping manufacturing organizations adapt to Industry 4.0: Future-oriented I-O applications to workforce development
Publisher
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Place of Publication
Chattanooga (Tenn.)
Abstract
Manufacturing organizations and their employees are facing a challenging and exciting point of transition as the industry enters its next era of production, generally known as Industry 4.0. This era is characterized by major improvements to technologies and processes that collectively will result in the most advanced and sophisticated manufacturing work environments ever seen. Since mid-2021, Dr. Chris Cunningham and students from the UTC I-O psychology program have consulted with the Smart Factories Institute, to assist with workforce research, training and development needs assessment and development, and organizational management strategy development to help manufacturing organizations and workers through this critical transition period. This presentation will provide an overview of Industry 4.0 and its implications for manufacturing organizations, managers, and workers. Results of recently completed industry and workforce analyses will also be shared, along with highlights of upcoming initiatives of the Smart Factory Institute. This session is designed to highlight ways that I-O psychology can be applied to an industry that the field often ignores and to future work that is still being defined. For more information, visit: https://peakperformance.tovuti.io/courses-page/course/the-transformation-of-manufacturing
Date
October 2022
Subject
Industrial and organizational psychology
Document Type
presentations
Language
English
Rights
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License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Helping manufacturing organizations adapt to Industry 4.0: Future-oriented I-O applications to workforce development
Manufacturing organizations and their employees are facing a challenging and exciting point of transition as the industry enters its next era of production, generally known as Industry 4.0. This era is characterized by major improvements to technologies and processes that collectively will result in the most advanced and sophisticated manufacturing work environments ever seen. Since mid-2021, Dr. Chris Cunningham and students from the UTC I-O psychology program have consulted with the Smart Factories Institute, to assist with workforce research, training and development needs assessment and development, and organizational management strategy development to help manufacturing organizations and workers through this critical transition period. This presentation will provide an overview of Industry 4.0 and its implications for manufacturing organizations, managers, and workers. Results of recently completed industry and workforce analyses will also be shared, along with highlights of upcoming initiatives of the Smart Factory Institute. This session is designed to highlight ways that I-O psychology can be applied to an industry that the field often ignores and to future work that is still being defined. For more information, visit: https://peakperformance.tovuti.io/courses-page/course/the-transformation-of-manufacturing
Department
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Dept. of Psychology