Convergence HTF: From Making to Micro-Manufacture: Reimagining Work Beyond Mass Production

Convergence HTF：从制造到微制造：重新构想大规模生产之外的工作

• 批准号: 1744423
• 负责人: Francis Quek
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-01 至 2020-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1744423&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Convergence; HTF; Making; Micro; Manufacture

Intelligent, interactive, and highly networked machines --with which people increasingly share their autonomy and agency--are a growing part of the landscape, particularly in regard to work. As automation today moves from the factory floor to knowledge and service occupations, insight and action are needed to reap the benefits in increased productivity and increased job opportunities, and to mitigate social costs. The workshop supported by this award will promote the convergence of multiple fields of inquiry from Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, Design, Economics, the Social Sciences, Industrial Engineering and Education to define key challenges and research imperatives of the nexus of humans, technology, and work. Convergence is the deep integration of knowledge, theories, methods, and data from multiple fields to form new and expanded frameworks for addressing scientific and societal challenges and opportunities. This convergence workshop addresses the future of work at the human-technology frontier.The specific focus of this workshop is to foster a discussion about the re-conceptualization of wealth creation in economically distressed areas by enabling the production of high quality manufactured goods at scales of hundreds and thousands in many distributed locations, but in an effective and sustainable manner. This approach, called "Micro-Manufacture," is grounded in technological advances that facilitate customized production of artifacts (e.g., 3D printing, the Internet; mobile devices, etc.). The workshop aims at initiating a discussion about the feasibility of the micro-manufacturing model. The workshop will also explore the interplay between Maker-based innovation and the engineering processes of Micro-Manufacture. To initiate the Micro-Manufacturing discussion, the perspectives of multiple science, technology, educational and societal interests need to be included. In particular, it is expected that research questions emanating from the workshop will require the deep integration of more than one discipline, from supply chain modeling and product design, to economics, sociology and education, to name only a few. The expected outcomes of the workshop will include the formation of a community of researchers with ideas that cross-cut fields to address Micro-Manufacture; an understanding of how the multiple related research areas interact and the research that is needed to enable Micro-Manufacture; and a publication in the form of a collected volume to inform the research community and broader society of the need, possibility, and challenges relating to Micro-Manufacture. The broader impacts accrue mainly from its potential to address society's pressing need for new configurations of work that may bring employment to a broader range of workers.

智能、交互式和高度网络化的机器——人们越来越多地与它们分享自主权和代理权——正在成为景观中越来越重要的一部分，特别是在工作方面。 随着今天的自动化从工厂车间转移到知识和服务职业，我们需要洞察力和行动来获得生产力提高和就业机会增加的好处，并降低社会成本。 该奖项支持的研讨会将促进计算机科学、人机交互、机电工程、设计、经济学、社会科学、工业工程和教育等多个研究领域的融合，以确定该领域的关键挑战和研究必要性。人类、技术和工作的关系。 融合是来自多个领域的知识、理论、方法和数据的深度整合，形成新的和扩展的框架，以应对科学和社会的挑战和机遇。本次融合研讨会讨论了人类技术前沿的工作未来。本次研讨会的具体重点是通过实现大规模生产高质量制成品来促进经济困难地区财富创造的重新概念化的讨论。成百上千的人分布在许多分散的地点，但以有效和可持续的方式。这种方法称为“微制造”，其基础是促进工件定制生产的技术进步（例如 3D 打印、互联网、移动设备等）。该研讨会旨在引发有关微制造模型可行性的讨论。研讨会还将探讨基于创客的创新与微制造工程流程之间的相互作用。要发起微制造讨论，需要包括多种科学、技术、教育和社会利益的观点。特别是，预计研讨会提出的研究问题将需要多个学科的深度融合，从供应链建模和产品设计，到经济学、社会学和教育学等等。研讨会的预期成果将包括形成一个研究人员社区，其想法跨领域以解决微制造问题；了解多个相关研究领域如何相互作用以及实现微制造所需的研究；以及以合集形式出版的出版物，旨在向研究界和更广泛的社会通报与微制造相关的需求、可能性和挑战。更广泛的影响主要来自于它满足社会对新工作结构的迫切需求的潜力，这些新工作结构可能为更广泛的工人带来就业机会。