Chatty factories

A vision for the future of product design and manufacture with IoT

Conference paper (2019)

Authors

Pete Burnap Cardiff University

D. Branson University of Nottingham

M. Lakoju Cardiff University

T. Smith University of Nottingham

J Thorp Lancaster University

D.S. Murray-Rust The University of Edinburgh

J. Preston University of Essex

Deborah Richards Lancaster University

D. Burnett Lancaster University

Nicole Edwards Cardiff University

R. Firth University of Essex

Katerina Gorkovenko The University of Edinburgh

M. A. Khanesar University of Nottingham

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IoT Design Robotics Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity Manufacturing Ethnography

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2019

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Abstract

Chatty Factories is a three-year investment by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) through its programme for New Industrial Systems. The project explores the transformative potential of placing IoT-enabled data driven systems at the core of design and manufacturing processes. The research focuses on the opportunity to collect data from IoT-enabled sensors embedded in products during real-time use by consumers, explores how that data might be immediately transferred into usable information to inform design, and considers what characteristics of the manufacturing environment might optimise the response to such data. The project also considers implications arising for skills development in the education sector as well as ethics in manufacturing. In this paper we provide a vision for future “Chatty Factories”.