Cluster of Excellence - Production Technology in High-Wage Countries
Cross-Sectional Processes 1
The stronger integration of information and communication technologies into production enables a new type of productivity growth by collaboration. This so-called collaboration productivity in integrative, interdisciplinary teams is in the focus of the Cross Sectional Processes. Here three main perspectives of collaboration are considered: results, employees and structure. The research results of the interdisciplinary project teams aim at increasing productivity both in the production and in the product development process, especially concerning individualized products. The aim is to integrate the contributions of the different research projects by a holistic approach to a new theory of production. This theory is supposed to increase the predictability of the behaviour of socio-technical production systems and therefore supports the decision-maker. The basis of collaboration productivity are integrative, interdisciplinary teams that are working together on technologies and models of the integrative production technology. Focus of Scientific Cooperation Engineering is to support and analyze collaboration in and across the teams. On the one hand innovation and knowledge management in interdisciplinary research teams are analyzed, on the other hand the performance and productivity of those teams are measured. The Research area Technology Transfer aims to strengthen the collaboration structures within the Cluster of Excellence by sustainable networking. With the Scientific Cooperation Portal networking structures can be tested internally. In the long-term the aim is to simplify the search of technologies for external partners. The network PROTECA (Production Technology Aachen) transfers the results and competencies into the local industry.
Link to the project website: http://www.produktionstechnik.rwth-aachen.de/cms/~gpfz/Produktionstechnik/
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André Calero Valdez
Professor of Human-Computer Interaction and Usable Safety Engineering
I am insterested in studying effects human-algorithm interaction and their impact on safety.
Publications
Industry 4.0 and its future staff. Matching millennials perceptions of a perfect job with the requirements of digitalization.
Against the background of a digitalizing industry (industry 4.0) the question of how companies and future staff are prepared for these …
Interdisciplinary Cooperation Management in Research Clusters: A Review of Twelve Years
As an interdisciplinary research network, the Cluster of Excellence “Integrative Production Technology for High-Wage Countries” (CoE) …
Evaluating Strategies to Restore Trust in Decision Support Systems in Cross-Company Cooperation
Advancing automation in many technical areas (mobility, production, medicine, etc.) is accompanied by new challenges for the …
Human Interaction Under Risk in Cyber-Physical Production Systems
The emergence of cyber-physical production systems poses new challenges for designing the interface between production systems and the …
Priming and anchoring effects in visualization
We investigate priming and anchoring effects on perceptual tasks in visualization. Priming or anchoring effects depict the phenomena …
The Interaction of Causal Attribution of Performance and Compliance with Decision Support Systems in Cyber-Physical Production Systems-An Empirical Study Using a Business Simulation Game
Supply Chains and production networks are complex sociotechnical systems whose performance is determined by system, interface, and …
How Correct and Defect Decision Support Systems Influence Trust, Compliance, and Performance in Supply Chain and Quality Management
Supply Chains and production networks are complex sociotechnical cyber-physical systems whose performance is determined by system, …
That’s so Meta! Usability of a Hypergraph-Based Discussion Model
Massive online communication systems such as social net- works, message boards and comment sections are widely used, yet fail in …
Augmenting research cooperation in production engineering with data analytics
Understanding how members of a research team cooperate and identifying possible synergies may be crucial for organizational success. …
Domestic Robots for Homecare: A Technology Acceptance Perspective
In times of the demographic change and the increasing need of novel concepts to meet the requirements of older adults’ care in the near …
Hybrid collaboration recommendation from bibliometric data
Medical product development is becoming more and more complex and requires highly-specialized and interdisciplinary collaborations. …
Measuring Insight into Multi-dimensional Data from a Combination of a Scatterplot Matrix and a HyperSlice Visualization
Understanding multi-dimensional data and in particular multi-dimensional dependencies is hard. Information visualization can help to …
User Groups and Different Levels of Control in Recommender Systems
The aspect of control in recommender systems has already been extensively researched in the past. Quite a number of studies performed …
On Studying Human Factors in Complex Cyber-Physical Systems
Deep penetration of modern information and communication technology in manufacturing companies (vertical integration) and across supply …
HCI for recommender systems: the past, the present and the future
How can you discover something new, that matches your interest? Recommender Systems have been studied since the 90ies. Their benefit …
Defective still deflective--how correctness of decision support systems influences user’s performance in production environments
The increasing dynamic and complexity of todays global supply chains and the growing amount and complexity of information challenge …
Strategic knowledge management for interdisciplinary teams-overcoming barriers of interdisciplinary work via an online portal approach
Interdisciplinary collaboration and its success is still not fully understood. In two explorative studies we examine both the existence …
An open-source object-graph-mapping framework for Neo4j and scala: renesca
The usage and application of graph databases is increasing. Many research problems are based on understanding relation- ships between …
Enhancing scientific cooperation of an interdisciplinary cluster of excellence via a scientific cooperation portal
In the Cluster of Excellence (CoE) “Integrative Production Technology for High-Wage countries” at RWTH Aachen University, scientists …
Graph Complexity in visual recommender systems for scientific literature
Digital libraries are becoming larger, while suffering from inefficient interfaces and search patterns. Recommender Systems are a …
Preparing Production Systems for the Internet of Things The Potential of Socio-Technical Approaches in Dealing with Complexity
The Internet of Things will influence how production systems of the future will work. An expected change is the increase in complexity …
Social media applications for knowledge exchange in organizations
With the broad success of Web 2.0, organizations have become interested in using social media for professional applications. To date …
Unterstützung interdisziplinärer integration am Beispiel einer Exzellenzcluster-Community
Aktuelle wissenschaftliche Fragestellungen sind häufig nur von einer Vielzahl unterschiedlicher wissenschaftlicher Fachdisziplinen zu …
Using Liferay as an Interdisciplinary Scientific Collaboration Portal
Interdisciplinary collaboration is seen as a means to solve complex problems that surpass disciplinary boundaries. By combining methods …
Visualizing opportunities of collaboration in large research organizations
In order to support interdisciplinary collaboration in a large organization, providing opportunities to meet new collaborators is …
Orchestrating collaboration-using visual collaboration suggestion for steering of research clusters
Interdisciplinary research and large research organizations such as research clusters represent an approach in tackling large complex …
Reducing complexity with simplicity - Usability methods for industry 4.0
At RWTH Aachen University the research cluster “Production Technology for High-Wage Countries” engages in advancing the polylemma of …
What do my colleagues know? dealing with cognitive complexity in organizations through visualizations
In order to cope with the growth of information complexity, organizations have started to implement various forms of knowledge …
Enhancing interdisciplinary cooperation by social platforms
In large-scale research projects active management of the cooperation process is necessary, e.g. to ensure systematic transfer of …
Scientific Cooperation Engineering - Making Interdisciplinary Knowledge Available within Research Facilities and to External Stakeholders
In this paper we introduce the Scientific Cooperation Portal (SCP), a social enterprise software, and how it is integrated into our …
Scientific cooperation engineering in the cluster of excellence integrative production technology for high-wage countries at RWTH Aachen University
Interdisciplinary scientific cooperation plays a decisive role for the generation of new knowledge. The augmenting dynamic and …
On graph entropy measures for knowledge discovery from publication network data
Many research problems are extremely complex, making in- terdisciplinary knowledge a necessity; consequently cooperative work in mixed …
Publication network visualization as an approach for interdisciplinary innovation management
Interdisciplinary research is currently the central scientific approach, assumed to be the answer to large-scale research problems …
Supporting technology transfer via web-based platforms
In order to stay globally competitive enterprises face an increasing pressure to be innovative. Furthermore, the rising complexity of …
Scientific cooperation engineering in the cluster of excellence integrative production technology for high-wage countries at RWTH Aachen University
Interdisciplinary scientific cooperation plays a decisive role for the generation of new knowledge. The augmenting dynamic and …
Using mixed node publication network graphs for analyzing success in interdisciplinary teams
Large-scale research problems (e.g. health and aging, eonomics and production in high-wage countries) are typically complex, needing …
