Thank you very much for your great talk. I think this is a very informative study.
I have a simple question. It seems not to focus on worker’s environments in factories so much. Probably, the digital transformation will work well for keeping social distancing among workers, etc. How about this?
Please find hereafter the reply to your comment:
“Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, society and most specifically in our case, manufacturing companies had to find alternatives to their daily tasks and activities.
As the main issue was social distancing, companies were forced to seek innovative digital solutions.
Before the global crisis, we were not familiar with the term “social distancing”, and today, it’s the new norm.
This makes it tougher to keep social distancing from colleagues/workers/technicians and stay productive and consequently, the creation of digital proximity in the workplace has become a necessity.
Towards that end, Digital Technologies provide socially distant people with the opportunity to find digital solutions in favor of working, connecting, and collaborating in order to keep up in this new transformational era.
Additionally, in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, the European Commission’s Digital Strategy gains renewed importance as digital tools are used to:
– monitor the spread of the coronavirus
– research and develop diagnostics, treatments and vaccines
– ensure that workers and citizens can stay connected and safe online
Last but not least, the proposed framework of this research work as presented and discussed in Slide 14, aims to Post Covid-19 Resilient Global Production Networks that are characterized by autonomous trucks, predictive shipping, lights-off warehouses and Autonomous Guided Vehicles (AGVs), drone deliveries and automatic re-configuration of the supply chain network. Therefore, the proposed framework can be applied in a smart factories either operating in lights-off mode or strictly applying the social distancing and hygiene rules to prevent the spread of Covid-19 .
We are at your disposal in case of other questions.
Thank you very much for your great talk. I think this is a very informative study.
I have a simple question. It seems not to focus on worker’s environments in factories so much. Probably, the digital transformation will work well for keeping social distancing among workers, etc. How about this?
Nariaki Nishino
The University of Tokyo
Dear Prof. Nishino,
Thank you for your comment!
Please find hereafter the reply to your comment:
“Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, society and most specifically in our case, manufacturing companies had to find alternatives to their daily tasks and activities.
As the main issue was social distancing, companies were forced to seek innovative digital solutions.
Before the global crisis, we were not familiar with the term “social distancing”, and today, it’s the new norm.
This makes it tougher to keep social distancing from colleagues/workers/technicians and stay productive and consequently, the creation of digital proximity in the workplace has become a necessity.
Towards that end, Digital Technologies provide socially distant people with the opportunity to find digital solutions in favor of working, connecting, and collaborating in order to keep up in this new transformational era.
Additionally, in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, the European Commission’s Digital Strategy gains renewed importance as digital tools are used to:
– monitor the spread of the coronavirus
– research and develop diagnostics, treatments and vaccines
– ensure that workers and citizens can stay connected and safe online
Last but not least, the proposed framework of this research work as presented and discussed in Slide 14, aims to Post Covid-19 Resilient Global Production Networks that are characterized by autonomous trucks, predictive shipping, lights-off warehouses and Autonomous Guided Vehicles (AGVs), drone deliveries and automatic re-configuration of the supply chain network. Therefore, the proposed framework can be applied in a smart factories either operating in lights-off mode or strictly applying the social distancing and hygiene rules to prevent the spread of Covid-19 .
We are at your disposal in case of other questions.
Best regards,
Professor Dimitris Mourtzis