New Challenges for the Industrial Architecture. Ergonomics on the Edge of a New Era of IT Technology and Deep Learning

Presently we observe a shift of human activity from the traditional methods of manufacturing products for increasingly specialized and evolving robotic and IT systems. For obvious economic and technological reasons this change is first strongly visible in industrial production. Along with technological advances is a dramatic shift of man’s place in the production process from the position at the machine to the back of this process as designer, supervisor and controller of information systems that manage production process. This seemingly obvious change results in completely new challenges for both industrial architecture but also the wider built environment as it dramatically reduces the number of jobs with completely new requirements for workplace and its architecture. The author of this article discusses the above issue on the example of the design of technologically advanced 3D printing plant from the point of view of the designer.