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industries are currently struggling with ageing workforce in modern production systems associated with industry 4.0. The industrial socio-demographic problem is more and more present as the increas-ing of the ageing population results in the prolongation of the work-ing life and the consecutively in the ageing of the workforce in industries. This paper aims to conduct a systematic literature review on the challenges and concerns of ageing operators, including the physical, cognitive, ergonomic, and well-being conditions of the age-ing workforce in the industry 4.0 environment. The ScienceDirect, Scopus, web of Science and PubMed scientific databases were used to survey the studies and selected using PRiSMA guidelines. This paper was structured and analysed by clusters: Ageing, industry 4.0, Human Factors, and ergonomics. These clusters were developed as research lines: Ageing as the socio-demographic challenge, industry 4.0 as the technological development, Human Factors as the individual charac-teristics of the operator, and ergonomics as the work environment. Thus, human-centric approaches and ideas are discussed with the insights and issues of industry 4.0 technologies, Human Factors, and ergonomics to achieve a sustainable system at the engineering and social level.
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Ageing workforce Human factors Ergonomics Industry 4.0 Smart factory
Citation
Joel Alves, Tânia M. Lima & Pedro D. Gaspar (2024) The sociodemographic challenge in human-centred production systems – a systematic literature review, Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science, 25:1, 44-66, DOI: 10.1080/1463922X.2022.2148178
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Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science