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Toward an Anthropocentric Approach for Hybrid Control Architectures: Case of a Furniture Factory

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Typology of goods and services’ consumption has changed. In order to adapt to this change, it is relevant for a company to turn toward new ways of production and management. Slowly, the concept of industry 4.0 starts to set up in manufacturing companies. Research on hybrid control systems favours achieving automated and flexible production system through “jidoka” (or autonomation) and Just In Time principles. Still, studies stay mainly techno-centred rather than anthropocentric. Parisot company suffers today of a lack of reactivity to its market and of a production tool maladjusted to customer’s consumption habits. This article aims to sum up the company’s current situation, and to introduce the project that intends to back it through its economic, technological and sociological transition toward a flexible, adaptive and sustainable human-centred manufacturing system.

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    The word is based on the French word “relier”, meaning “connect”. This concept was first studied from 1975 to 1985 by Bolle De Bal [7]. (Morin, 2014) uses this term to describe the need to connect to each other’s and to the universe, in order to achieve the socio-ecological transition.

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    CIFRE: Industrial Convention of Formation through REsearch.

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    FNAEM: French furniture and home equipement’s trading federation.

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    UA: National Union of French furniture’s industries.

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    AGV: Automated guided vehicle.

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    ICT: Information and Communication Technology.

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    QRQC: Quick Response Quality Control.

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    TPS: Toyota Production System.

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    JIT: Just-In-Time.

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    Sakichi Toyoda (1867–1930): founder of Toyota Industries, inventor of automatic power loom implemented with Jidoka principles, creator of the 5Whys rule.

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    CRAN: Nancy’s Research Centre in Automatic Control.

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Valette, E., El-Haouzi, H.B., Demesure, G., Boucinha, V. (2019). Toward an Anthropocentric Approach for Hybrid Control Architectures: Case of a Furniture Factory. In: Borangiu, T., Trentesaux, D., Thomas, A., Cavalieri, S. (eds) Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing. SOHOMA 2018. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 803. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03003-2_11

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