Human System Integration as a Key Approach to Design Manufacturing Control System for Industry 4.0: Challenges, Barriers, and Opportunities

This paper is intended to discuss the works and challenges raised by Human-System Integration (HSI) as a key approach to deal with the changes that Industry 4.0 will bring to Smart Manufacturing Control System (SMCS). Industry 4.0 has come with many technological advances allowing significant possibilities to enhance flexibility, efficiency and human well-being but also increasing the complexity and the lack of exhaustive view on the behaviour of autonomous agents. This leads to the questions of acceptability, comprehension, or adaptation between humans and systems. This paper suggests some challenging perspectives from the organization, technology, and social dimensions' triptych. An overview of works related to organisation theory, HSI & SMCS have been done to evaluate the barriers, opportunities, and action levers for the future smart manufacturing control systems' challenges. Copyright (C) 2021 The Authors.