Digi­tiza­ti­on

Brief descrip­ti­on of the field of com­pe­tence

Digi­ta­li­sa­ti­on is a cen­tral mega­trend that affects both socie­ty and com­pa­nies. Many new poten­ti­als ari­se in com­pa­nies through digi­ta­li­sa­ti­on, from pro­duc­tion and employees to the value chain.

After mecha­ni­sa­ti­on, elec­tri­fi­ca­ti­on and com­pu­te­ri­sa­ti­on of indus­try, Indus­try 4.0 deno­tes a fourth indus­tri­al revo­lu­ti­on trig­ge­red by the pro­gres­si­ve deve­lo­p­ment of infor­ma­ti­on and com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on tech­no­lo­gies (ICT). In this con­text, the net­wor­king of intel­li­gent pro­duc­tion sys­tems and new pos­si­bi­li­ties and forms of human inter­ac­tion within and bet­ween com­pa­nies play an important role. The­se poten­ti­als face chal­lenges not only in terms of tech­ni­cal imple­men­ta­ti­on, but also in terms of work design and orga­niza­ti­on in pro­duc­tion and pro­duc­tion-rela­ted are­as.

In Kom­pe­tenz­feld „Digi­ta­li­sie­rung“ of ITA, rese­arch and appli­ca­ti­on pro­jects deal with topics such as the design of the digi­tal trans­for­ma­ti­on pro­cess in com­pa­nies, pro­ce­du­res for the sel­ec­tion and imple­men­ta­ti­on of tech­no­lo­gies with the invol­vement of employees. But also the recor­ding of employee requi­re­ments in the digi­tal trans­for­ma­ti­on pro­cess as well as topics from the field of lea­der­ship in digi­tal working envi­ron­ments, agi­le orga­niza­tio­nal design, digi­tal lear­ning, digi­tal busi­ness models and data pro­tec­tion play a role in the com­pe­tence field.

All acti­vi­ties are gui­ded by the idea of using the poten­ti­als of digi­ti­sa­ti­on for the design of huma­ne work, inte­gra­ting the inte­rests of all stake­hol­ders.

About the acti­vi­ties in the Kom­pe­tenz­feld „Digi­ta­li­sie­rung“ ITA pur­sues the goal of posi­tio­ning its­elf as a com­pe­tence cent­re for the huma­ne design of digi­tal trans­for­ma­ti­on in Rhi­ne­land-Pala­ti­na­te and bey­ond. To this end, ITA is acti­ve in a broad net­work of part­ners in rese­arch and imple­men­ta­ti­on.

This will be a key fac­tors in sha­ping digi­tal chan­ge and the con­cre­ti­sa­ti­on of Indus­try 4.0 and Work 4.0, among others:

• to inte­gra­te humans as employees into the­se intel­li­gent sys­tems,
• to incre­asing­ly estab­lish col­la­bo­ra­ti­ve forms of work,
• to pur­sue a par­ti­ci­pa­to­ry deve­lo­p­ment and inte­gra­ted intro­duc­tion of CPS in orga­ni­sa­ti­ons,
• to design trans­for­ma­ti­on pro­ces­ses that accom­pa­ny the chan­ge from indus­try 3.0 to 4.0,
• inter­link pro­duc­tion or pro­ducts and ser­vices within the frame­work of Indus­try 4.0.

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Pro­jects in the com­pe­tence field of digi­ti­sa­ti­on