Description du projet
L’innovation au service d’une population active vieillissante
L’augmentation du vieillissement de la population dans l’UE commence à générer d’importantes pénuries de main-d’œuvre. En conséquence, le besoin de solutions pour résoudre les problèmes de production à venir devient urgent. L’application de technologies innovantes comme la robotique, les instruments de travail intelligents et la technologie de réalité virtuelle immersive pour préserver la productivité, la qualité et la sécurité de la population active vieillissante est une solution. Ces technologies, qui font l’objet d’une demande croissante dans le secteur de la production, peuvent mieux intégrer l’expérience de haut niveau et les compétences spécifiques des travailleurs âgés. Le projet MAIA, financé par l’UE, établira un réseau pionnier d’échange de personnel de recherche et d’innovation pour évaluer les besoins des systèmes de production et les besoins créés par le vieillissement de la main-d’œuvre dans le secteur de la fabrication.
Objectif
Working populations in European Member States are ageing. In short, if most people continue to retire at around 60 years of age, the European labour force will shrink by around three million per year over the period 2020 to 2035 as reported by EU-OSHA. There is a need for a new and more comprehensive policy design to counter the shortage of workers in the future.
Moreover in European production systems there is a growing demand of applications with arm-based robots, exoskeletons, smart and intelligent working tools, immersive virtual reality technology. All these last generation technologies if well applied have a big potential to preserve the productivity, quality and safety of the aging workforce by better powering their great level experience and extraordinary skills.
The main objective of the MAIA Academy is to create a unique research and innovation staff exchange network focused on the ageing problem in manufacturing. MAIA project will provide a multidisciplinary approach to achieve objectives as:
- The study of the aging workforce needs and requirements in European production and assembly systems;
- The development of new design methodology to create assembly and production workspaces elderly-oriented by preserving productivity, quality and safety;
- The development of new analytical models to support assembly and production line design elderly-oriented and validate them with world-wide case studies.
- Design and test of new ergonomics devices in order to support aging workers during tasks, by helping them in reducing muscular fatigue and risk of muscle skeletal disorders
- Design and test of new immersive and virtual reality instruments in order to guide elder workers and support them in the production process.
MAIA will bring together 7 European partners and 6 Third country partners to create a new generation of knowledge towards the creation of age-friendly paradigms, models and methods for manufacturing systems.
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