Settlements of the Hamburgian and Federmesser Cultures at Slotseng, South Jutland

Settlements of the Hamburgian and Federmesser Cultures at Slotseng, South Jutlan

Recent Excavations and Discoveries

Recent Excavations and Discoverie

Architecture of the Product State Model Environment: The QualiGlobe Experience of Production Efficiency

This paper addresses the issue of using product models to support product lifecycle activities with particular focus on the production phase. The motivation of the research is that products are produced more costly and with longer lead-time than necessary. The paper provides a review of product modelling technologies and approaches, and the overall architecture for the Product State Model (PSM) Environment as a basis for quality monitoring. Especially, the paper focuses on the circumstances prevailing in a one-of-a-kind manufacturing environment like the shipbuilding industry, where product modelling technologies already have proved their worth in the design and engineering phases of shipbuilding and in the operation phase. However, the handling of product information on the shop floor is not yet equally developed. The paper reports from the Brite-Euram project (No. BE97-4510) QualiGlobe focusing on the development activities of the PSM architecture. An example discusses how to handle product related information on the shop floor in a manufacturing company and focuses on how dynamically updated product data can improve control of production activities. This prototype example of welding a joint between two steel plates serves as proof of concept for the PSM architecture

Ready, but challenged:: Diffusion and use of artificial intelligence and robotics in Danish firms

This working paper explores the diffusion and effects of artificial intelligence and robotics on work organization and skills formation in Danish private and public companies. The main focus is on how humans and technology interact, the extent to which employees have the skills to engage in this interaction, and the interplay between job content and technology. The main findings are the following: Artificial intelligence is more diffused and diffuses more rapidly than robotics, and this diffusion is uneven across Danish regions; Danish employees are very confident in using artificial intelligence and robotics, but half of the employees lack the necessary skills; skills are to an important extent acquired through on-the-job learning, which are insufficient in the long run; artificial intelligence involves a larger variety of learning than robotics and has a greater impact on tasks and work organization. The working paper con-cludes with recommendations for policy and management. Important recommendations are that there is a need for policy makers to focus on developing new formal education and training and to innovate existing education in order to ready current and future em-ployees for technological change, and that management needs to focus more on continuous development of their human capital. Lifelong learning and strategic human resource management become increasingly important