Digitization

Mass personalization & greater workforce collaboration keys to industry 5.0

“Industry 5.0 will offer greater opportunity, prosperity and sustainability for our workforce,” commented Kedzierski.

Industry 5.0 will be characterized by mass personalization and greater workforce collaboration,” said Brent Kedzierski, Head of Learning Strategy and Innovation at Shell.

Brent Kedzierski, Head of Learning Strategy and Innovation at Shell and AVEVA’s Vice President for Process & Simulation Ian Willetts explored how more personalized solutions will empower workers to take greater control over their work experiences creating, more adaptive, on demand experiences which will increase worker confidence, resulting in greater workforce creativity, autonomy and performance.

The discussion highlighted the need to accelerate the movement to better blend Industry 4.0 connected technologies with the humanistic practices and expectations of Industry 5.0 to deliver even more personalized worker experiences characteristic of higher concept and touch designs.

“Combining the power of Industry 4.0 connected technologies with the human element of Industry 5.0 will pave the way for human intelligence to work in greater harmony with cognitive computing capabilities,” says Kedzierski.

While Industry 4.0 was about smart production, IoT, sensors and drones, the discussion highlighted that Industry 5.0 will be differentiated by mass personalization and experience design.

Kedzierski is hopeful that Industry 5.0 will be a turning point for the human condition at work as physical and environmental safety competence is mastered and industry can shift to addressing psychological safety.

“Industry 5.0 will offer greater opportunity, prosperity and sustainability for our workforce,” commented Kedzierski.

Willetts revealed that AVEVA has now integrated operator training simulators with a learning management system (LMS) so that the competency set that must be developed as part of a classroom, lesson or experiential learning exercise can be managed and tracked by the LMS.

Kedzierski concluded that delivering more personalized worker experiences as we progress is necessary to serve the new industrial agenda of achieving the goals of both the enterprise as well as the welfare of humans.

“Industry 5.0 will be about connecting human cognition, collaboration and creativity to smart production. Progress will be judged on not just the connection of data between the Internet of Things (IoT), but how connectivity enhances the human experience. The age of mass personalization will be about achieving large-scale impact, one individual at a time.”

“Working on projects with innovative companies such as Shell is placing AVEVA way ahead of the curve. Our mission is to help the people behind complex industrial processes with information and solutions that combine data, AI and smart analytics to optimize efficiency and will help to shape a sustainable future,” added Willetts.