
Sebastian SchlundTU Wien | TU Wien · Institute of Management Science
Sebastian Schlund
Univ.Prof. Dr.-Ing.
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Introduction
Skills and Expertise
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September 2010 - May 2017
Position
- Process Planning
September 2010 - August 2013

Independent Researcher
Position
- AssiEff (Assistance Systems for order-related energy-efficient production)
Description
- Energy Efficiency, Mobile Applications, Production Management
Publications
Publications (133)
Demographic shifts and workforce shortages impose change to today’s work system, inter alia, for integrating diverse human populations. Industry 4.0 and emerging technologies further amplify the potential of having enabled work systems for people with a different range of (dis-)abilities and preferences. Aligned with the global trend of integrating...
This paper presents a calculation model that makes it possible to generate ecological key figures for refurbished electronic devices at product level and compare them with the respective new device. To date, the ecological advantage of refurbished products can only be shown based on rough average values or very occasionally for specific products th...
This position paper provides both a definition of shared
logistics and an explanation of the relevance of the topic.
In particular, it introduces both the state-of-the-art and future
vision of Fraunhofer Austria on thematic area of shared
logistics.
In addition, this position paper envisions shared logistics as a
lighthouse in the form of theses a...
Current challenges such as climate change, the limits of natural resources, and increasing customer-specific sustainability demands require a transformation of value creation. The aim is to move from global sourcing to more local value creation by creating synergistic energy and circular material flows and making better use of capacities while taki...
Lately, the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in ergonomic assessment has shown promise in accurately evaluating human posture and motion with regard to ergonomic risk. As AI becomes more ubiquitous, these techniques aim to substitute observational techniques and make ergonomic risk assessment more accessible. However, current AI methods...
Spatial Augmented Reality (SAR) in assembly has been shown to improve productivity by augmenting work instructions. Due to this reason, SAR is frequently used to support workers with disabilities in performing new assembly tasks. Although this form of assembly guidance promises to improve learning, little is known about the optimal design of instru...
The circular economy has gained significance in recent years due to its potential to achieve economic benefits and address ecological challenges. Mechanical engineering companies face the challenge of transitioning to a circular economy, which offers advantages like improved resource utilisation, reduced dependence on external suppliers, and enhanc...
Recently, sustainability guidelines such as the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) or the EU Taxonomy Regulation have become legally binding, thus requiring enterprises to monitor, control and report their contributions in compliance with sustainable development goals (SDGs). Comprehensive sustainability assessment methods are, the...
Bei der Programmierung und Steuerung von Robotersystemen fehlen Standardisierungen, wodurch Experten bei Änderungen in den Randbedingungen mit Zeit- und Personalaufwand nachprogrammieren. Um den Programmieraufwand zu senken, wird ein Software-Framework zur BPMN-basierten Programmierung und Orchestrierung von skillbasierten Robotersteuerungen vorges...
The necessity of a sustainable economy has propelled the introduction and promotion of the concept of the circular economy worldwide. At both international and national levels, circular economy strategies, such as the EU Circular Economy Action Plan and the Austrian Circular Economy Strategy, have established ambitious objectives aimed at increasin...
For evaluation of industrial augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) applications, a comprehensive knowledge of their impact on productivity, process metrics, and human factors is critical to facilitate the transition from lab-scale research to industrial settings. While laboratory-scale evaluations have been extensively researched, successful implem...
Circular economy has become a prominent topic in scientific discourse and has gained significant presence as a strategic factor for business and industry. Both, as crucial enabler of a sustainable economy, and as lever for overcoming resource dependencies. Previous studies have identified multiple benefits of implementing circular principles, as we...
The circular economy (CE) has gained significance in recent years due to its potential to achieve economic benefits and address ecological challenges. Mechanical engineering companies face the challenge of transitioning to a circular economy, which offers advantages like improved resource utilisation, reduced dependence on external suppliers, and e...
Zusammenfassung
Sicherheit, also Personen- sowie Informationssicherheit, ist eine der wichtigsten Anforderungen an jede Maschine und Anlage. Die Maschinenrichtlinie 2006/42/EG regelt das Inverkehrbringen von sicheren vollständigen und unvollständigen Maschinen. Ende Juni 2023 wurde die EU-weite Maschinenverordnung veröffentlicht, die die Maschinenr...
Industrial management is facing many challenges, one need is to adopt sustainable practices. As climate change is becoming an increasingly urgent problem, industrial management must find ways to reduce waste and pollution, conserve natural resources, and protect the environment and employees. Industrial management also needs to embrace new technolo...
18th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing (INCOM 2024)
28-30 August 2024, Vienna, Austria
A major global event for Control and Industrial Engineering, Operations Management, and Data Science
https://www.incom2024.org/
This paper provides firstly an overview of the literature on hardware start-ups, which are also related to manufacturing innovation. It continues with a framework, based on an interview series with hardware start-ups and their respective stakeholders. It includes a discussion about the relevant challenges and success factors, along with a potential...
Manufacturing enterprises can identify organizational and human resource competence fields and individual competencies, which are documented. They mostly rely on technology management approaches to predict and supply future demanding competencies. Technology trends are examined and evaluated, and relevant competencies are derived. Others use data-d...
Although production planning in remanufacturing systems has attracted great interest from the research community, only a couple of real industrial applications can be perceived. Additionally, in real cases, companies are faced with manufacturing multiple products, which further complicates remanufacturing production planning (RPP). Therefore, there...
Collaborative industrial robotic arms (cobots) are integrated industrial assembly systems relieving their human coworkers from monotonous tasks and achieving productivity gains. The question of task allocation arises in the organization of these human–robot interactions. State of the art shows static, compensatory task allocation approaches in curr...
Collaborative robots (Cobots) are an emerging technology with high potential for industry, especially in the assembly sector. Cobots are designed to work fence-less to assist human workers. Human-robot collaboration can increase pro- ductivity, reduce monotony and improve workers’ ergonomics. However, many companies do not know if the implementatio...
In Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS), integrity and availability of hardware and software components are necessary to ensure product quality and the safety of employees and customers, while the confidentiality of engineering artifacts and product details must be kept to hide company secrets. At the same time, an increasing number of Internet...
In the context of smart manufacturing, the technical development of monitoring systems has made it possible to track employees with the same systems that are used to track assets. This study contributes to our understanding of the acceptance of location-based monitoring of employees and investigates how the perceived privacy risk regarding monitori...
The further development of Industry 4.0 to 5.0 focuses even more on human-centred and sustainable production. The ergonomic factor plays a major role, as it is crucial for the well-being and productivity of workers and should already be considered in production planning. One of the most common ergonomic analysis methods is the “Ergonomic As-sessmen...
Human-robot collaborations are among the most promising but challenging applications for human-centered production, as both agents involved share a mutual workspace without physical barriers. Safety aspects require limiting the power and force of operations to comply with biomechanical limits in case of a collision according to the International Or...
This paper introduces a novel voice-based programming approach and software framework for collaborative robots (cobots) based on the Web Speech API, which is now supported by most modern browsers. The framework targets human programmable interfaces and human-machine interfaces, which can be used by people with little or no programming experience. T...
The publication presents an overview of the use of digital human models (DHM) in academic education at five exemplary universities in Germany and Austria. In addition to the presentation of different human models, the integration of them into the respective lectures is discussed. The teaching concepts of the individual courses of the universities,...
Work-related musculoskeletal disorders account for high levels of absence and deplete the workforce through permanent incapacities. Degenerative health conditions can be prevented, if ergonomic risks are discovered and eliminated before the consequences can settle in. To prevent ergonomic risks in the early stage, ergonomic analysis is necessary. H...
Spatial augmented reality (SAR) allows embedding instructions in the operator’s field of view in manufacturing processes while hands-free working is possible. In this paper, we present the results of a field study in manufacturing to evaluate on the industrial readiness of SAR. We compared a worker assistance system via a tablet with a spatial augm...
To hand over more than just pick & place tasks to an industrial collaborative robotic arm with a two-jaw gripper, the gripper must first be removed, and a new tool mounted. This tool change requires either human assistance or an expensive tool changer. The tools applied to the end-effector are often highly expensive and software system interfaces b...
This white paper focuses on the analysis of scientific literatures to identify the as-is state of Work-Based Learning (WBL) in diverse industrial sectors. It revealed the major lack in the literature of engineering education, including the learning factory community, on establishing a common ground for addressing training demands of manufacturing i...
Sustainability is gaining importance and the economy is changing into a circular economy, especially with regard to climate change and the need to create more resilient value chains. The organization of work is meeting these challenges with, among other things, the digitalization of increasingly changeable production. Collecting and understanding d...
Sustainability is gaining importance and the economy is changing into a circular economy, especially with regard to climate change and the need to create more resilient value chains. The organization of work is meeting these challenges with, among other things, the digitalization of increasingly changeable production. Collecting and understanding d...
Adaptation of work to humans instead of humans constantly adapting to work systems and work environments has been a goal of ergonomics since the 19th century. To date, an actual adaptation of work to the specific features, conditions and requirements of individual users has so far only taken place in rudimentary form. The possibilities have now ope...
The increasing skill mismatch in manufacturing workforce is raising demand for training opportunities to cope with advanced manufacturing systems. To maintain production and adjust quickly to technological transformation, innovative work-based learning approaches are emphasized. Intelligent machines are becoming capable of interaction and collabora...
The demands regarding high mix, low volume manufacturing and faster product life cycles make flexible production indispensable. Collaborative robots are widely regarded as an enabler for this flexible production. Further, they also achieve the goal of human-centered production envisioned by Industry 5.0. However, its installation requires significa...
Augmented reality (AR) promises to enable use cases in industrial settings that include the embedding of assembly instructions directly into the scene, potentially reducing or altogether obviating the need for workers to refer to such instructions in paper form or on a statically situated screen. Spatial AR, in turn, is a form of AR whereby the aug...
The collaborative robot safety mode ‘power and force limiting’ requires the compliance of biomechanical limits to ensure human safety. As part of the risk assessment, it is common to test possible contact points of a collaborative application for a) quasi-static contact (e.g. squeezing or clamping) and b) transient contact (collision with free impa...
As production shifts from mass produced items towards customisation, human cognitive capabilities will become difficult to substitute by automation. However, as Europe's population is aging, labour shortage will put additional pressure on workers and businesses, if they want to remain competitive. Therefore, in this paper, we examine re-humanisatio...
The formation of complex skills in collaborative robotics (cobotics) involves both a theoretical-cognitive and practical-empirical side. Measuring learning success is key to efficient skills development. Although the most common means of gauging learning are quiz-based tests or other subjective means that screen factual knowledge, they do not provi...
Teaching collaborative robots to non-experts/laypersons has been an ongoing research topic to unfold the promising possibilities of this technology in manufacturing. A teaching concept was designed, implemented as a comprehensive one-day workshop, conducted and evaluated in several EU countries to engage and teach participants from different backgr...
This paper introduces a novel voice-based programming approach and software framework for collaborative robots (cobots) based on the Web Speech API, which is now supported by most modern browsers. The framework targets human programmable interfaces and human-machine interfaces, which can be used by people with little or no programming experience. T...
Teaching collaborative robots to non-experts/laypersons has been an ongoing research topic to unfold the promising
possibilities of this technology in manufacturing. A teaching concept was designed, implemented as a comprehensive one-day
workshop, conducted and evaluated in several EU countries to engage and teach participants from different backgr...
An Adaptive Spatial Augmented Reality system with dynamic in-situ projection of work instructions and information guidance already shows benefits in the field of industrial site assembly of aircraft components. Furthermore, the user-adaptive gesture control offers advantages for a human-centered and natural interaction directly in the assembly proc...
Der Mangel an digitalen Kompetenzen wird von Unternehmen häufig als eine große, wenn nicht gar als größte, Barriere auf dem Weg der digitalen Transformation gesehen. Gleichzeitig verfolgen die meisten Unternehmen keine übergeordnete Strategie zur Erhöhung der ihrer Kompetenzen im Zuge der aktuellen Integration von Digitalisierungs- und Automatisier...
The future of collaborative robots (cobots) is shaped by the desire for a flexible and beneficial cooperation between humans and cobots. We reviewed the state of the art regarding human-cobot interaction in manufacturing. In this paper we present a digital worker assistance system, based on the Business Process Model and Notation Language (BPMN), w...
Industrial enterprises increasingly identify their employee’s digital competences as a main barrier towards modern manufacturing paradigms – such as Industry 4.0. Considering shorter technology cycles, they find a key enabler in timely capturing existing digital competences to forecast future competence requirements relating to identified trends. T...
Industrial robot programming tools increasingly rely on graphical interfaces, which aim at rendering the programming task more accessible to a wide variety of users. The usability of such tools is currently being evaluated in controlled environments, such as laboratories or companies, in which a group of participants is asked to carry out several t...
In Prozessen mit hoher Varianz, kurzen Lieferzeiten sowie veränderlichen Produkten ermöglicht eine simulationsbasierte Planung sowie eine adaptive Anpassung der Produktionspläne eine zielgerichtete Kapazitätsauslastung der Produktion. Die Simulation der Ofenbelegung, die Implementierung einer automatisierten Maschinenansteuerung und die dadurch res...
Im Rahmen der Planung von Arbeitssystemen mit Mensch-Roboter-Zusammenarbeit können digitale Planungswerkzeuge mit ihren Funktionen zur Visualisierung und parametrischen Simulation in Kombination mit ergonomischen Bewertungen der Arbeitsprozesse einen wesentlichen Mehrwert zur wirtschaftlichen Arbeitssystemgestaltung darstellen. Im Beitrag wird anha...
Der Einsatz von kollaborativen Robotern schafft neue Herausforderungen für die Gewährleistung der Personensicherheit. Speziell im Falle einer Kollision muss die Einhaltung biomechanischer Grenzwerte sichergestellt werden. Da diese zum aktuellen Stand nicht, beziehungsweise nicht vollständig, in Prozesssimulationsprogramme integriert sind, ist eine...
The continuous acquisition of new digital competences and the development of situational learning assistance systems will become more important than ever in the coming years, because the world of work is becoming more complex, more informative and all above more data-driven. Jobs are changing due to increasing digitalisation, whereby the use of mod...
In diesem Beitrag wird eine neue Form des Lernens und Lehrens mit Hilfe von digitalen und kompakten Lernein- heiten, sogenannten Learning Nuggets, vorgestellt. Dieser Artikel beschäftigt sich mit dem Einsatz dieser Lehrform auf dem interdisziplinären Gebiet der Robotik, zeigt ihre Vorteile, Feedback der Lernenden und Möglichkeiten der Personalisier...
The technology to support Augmented (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) applications are considered increasingly mature for a broader, productive application in corporate environments. As yet, they have been underused, among other reasons, due to doubts about the acceptance and productive performance by employees. This paper presents a study that collect...
A new wave of collaborative robots designed to work alongside humans is bringing the automation historically seen in large-scale industrial settings in new, diverse contexts[95]. However, the research has shown that the innovation gap between robot hardware and software doesn’t seem to close- the hardware development reached extremely high levels....
Die gezielte und zukunftsorientierte Aus- und Weiterbildung von Mitarbeiter:innen in technischen Unternehmen erfordert im Kontext des rapiden technologischen und demographischen Wandels innovative Lösungsansätze. Die Identifizierung und Strukturierung von kompetenzrelevanten Informationen aus unstrukturierten Unternehmensdaten mithilfe von Methoden...
The market for cyber-physical systems, such as collaborative robots (cobots), continues to grow fast. Primarily, this is driven by megatrends, such as smart factories, which include interconnected machines and human-robot interaction. On the one hand, these new technologies lead to flexible manufacturing and a higher level of automation. On the oth...
Tracking and tracing of objects have found widespread application in industry and logistics for the last decade. Profound information about the position and the status of an object allows better planning and scheduling, thus leads to more flexible processes, stock reductions and even new business models become possible. The implementation of tracki...
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is an emerging technology in the field of software automation, which is making rapid progress within efficiency-driven industries. Whilst it has found broad dispersion in the automation of office tasks, its potentials in manufacturing and industrial engineering are unexhausted. This paper explores the basic concepts...
In the course of the digitization of production facilities, tracking and tracing of assets in the supply chain is becoming increasingly relevant for the manufacturing industry. The collection and use of real-time position data of logistics, tools and load carriers are already standard procedure in entire branches of the industry today. In addition...
Collaborative robots (cobots) are vital for agile concepts of industrial manufacturing and regarded as flexible and low-cost automation solutions. Therefore, learning factory concepts increasingly include handling with cobot technology, their industrial applications and safety concepts. In addition to these fields of knowledge, it is widely conside...
Der Einsatz von kollaborativen Robotersystemen schafft neue Herausforderungen für die Gewährleistung der Personensicherheit. Speziell im Falle einer Kollision muss die Einhaltung biomechanischer Grenzwerte sichergestellt werden. Da diese zum aktuellen Stand nicht in Prozesssimulationsprogramme integriert sind, ist eine automatisierte Si-cherheitsze...
The industrial assembly of large equipment is usually organized as site assembly, requires a high degree of manual work. Humans, with their cognitive skills and abilities, still carry out a significant share of manual and cognitive tasks in this context. For process-efficient as well as human-centered design of workplaces, anthropometric characteri...
The ongoing development of collaborative robots (cobots) bears great potential for assembly processes by enabling new possibilities of task allocation between humans and machines. A detailed, empirically based evaluation of how cobots can live up to these possibilities in industrial practice is still missing in the manufacturing literature. In this...
Industrial enterprises increasingly identify their employee's digital competences as a main barrier towards modern manufacturing paradigms-such as Industry 4.0. Considering shorter technology cycles, they find a key enabler in timely capturing existing digital competences in order to forecast future competence requirements relating to identified tr...