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In the course of the demographic change companies will have to tackle the challenges of an ageing workforce. Since older employees, especially blue-collar workers are more likely to show an attrition of their working ability, manufacturers need to take preventive and compensative measures: first to maintain health and well being of their employees, second to integrate those with already reduced working ability and third to further increase productivity. On workplace level the concept of a production assistance robot offers a promising approach, combining support and relief for the worker with the benefits of automation directly in the value added chain. This paper summarizes several approaches, where adding simple low level intelligence to industrial robots results in economically and ergonomically effective assistance functions.
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Reinhart, G., Spillner, R., Shen, Y. (2012). Approaches of Applying Human-Robot-Interaction-Technologies to Assist Workers with Musculoskeletal Disorders in Production. In: Su, CY., Rakheja, S., Liu, H. (eds) Intelligent Robotics and Applications. ICIRA 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7507. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33515-0_8
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