Towards Industry 5.0: Augmented Reality Assistance Systems for People-Centred Digitalisation and Smart Manufacturing

Abstract

Although Industry 4.0 has brought multiple positive impacts, the lack of consideration for the human operator in the loop has been a key driver for an ‘Industry 5.0’ (r)evolution. Human-centricity is a core pillar of Industry 5.0, however, the breadth of emerging Industrial Technologies and methods for worker assistance and their integration in factories' systems are not well understood yet. This paper carries out a systematic review of human-centric manufacturing and discusses the emerging research topics, methods and approaches that are contributing to the next industrial revolution. The key factors on human operator wellbeing, methods and techniques for human-centric manufacturing, and augmented reality assistance systems are analysed. Moreover, the research challenges and gaps are identified, and recommendations on future research directions are provided for the further development of people-centred digitalisation and smart manufacturing research.