Industry 5.0 Community of Practice

Human-Centric MESH Business Solutions are going to innovate European's industry practice

What is Industry 5.0?

European industry is a key driver in the economic and societal transitions that we are currently undergoing. In order to remain the engine of prosperity, industry must lead the digital and green transitions. This approach provides a vison of industry that aims beyond efficiency and productivity as the sole goals, and reinforces the role and the contribution of industry to society. It places the wellbeing of the worker at the centre of the production process and uses new technologies to provide prosperity beyond jobs and growth while respecting the production limits of the planet. It complements the existing "Industry 4.0" approach by specifically putting research and innovation at the service of the transition to a sustainable, human-centric and resilient European industry.

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What is Human-Centric MESH Business Solutions?

Innovative business process and organization thinking is the magic key in Europeans competition in economic and wellbeing of the workers today. But up to now digitalisation strategies as made by “Industry 4.0” concentrate on technical improvement and data handling only, reducing the human creator a machine user. Taking into account that business process modelling - manual same as digital – still remaining on the convey belt principle by Start-End procedures from 1908 and the organization setups still remaining on the “Aufbau- und Ablauforganisation” principle by hierarchical top-down decision making from 1930 the discrepancies get clear. Limiting linear thinking must be transformed into an innovative free surface thinking. The Human-Centric MESH Business Solutions platform provides this transformational approach to simplify business processes and organizations acting agile to changes in business, resources and market. This simple platform incorporates human-centred expertise and decision-making at levels of the four essential business drivers Initial Management (mitigations), Functionality (operations), Business Demand (management) and Business Values (entrepreneur). Tasks and enablers are created along the ways by companys best talents collaborating with technologies like AI to serve the four key values Security (e.g. Business continuity), Performance, Grow and Sustainability. Building on common values gains business knowledge and back feeds the experience into the business drivers Functionality, Business Demand and Business Values again. The results are self-learning processes and organizations with a dynamic improvement instead of one-way work streams. Human-centric MESH Business Solutions are radical simple designed to effortless substitute the existing tools of business process management and management consulting.

What impact clients can expect from the Industry 5.0 announced?

Rethinking of single work places as new “talent spaces” and hierarchical organizations as new “human-human & human-technology collaborations” will be the biggest impact for clients expected by Industry 5.0. Up to now the strategies of Industry 4.0 suppress the main amount of power of human creativity and social interaction by the limitations of established digital processes and rigid decision making tools. While the main amount of personnel in industry is operative looked-out from deciding today, new technologies will empower decision making on all levels again. Upcoming AI in Industry is a breakthrough creating self-learning human interacting tools, that now needs also a new mindset of organizational human-centricity. European`s innovative small and mid-sized companies could be the first to have huge benefit from Industry 5.0 based on their higher flexibility and the often given foresight mindset to lead human-technology-collaborative manufacturing.

Can clients benefit from transforming their business with MESH in advance?

Facing more and more social challenges rather than technological improvements one of the big benefits right now is an increasing employer attractivity. Human-centred processes and organizations provide talents and experts a new agility and skill based responsibility working profile. Companies are enabled to use internal human resources more effectively and being resilient against the changes and market demands today. MESH Business Navigation® for example is a stand-alone tool ready to fit effortless into existing workstreams empowering the players to visualize their chosen ways of business success and sometimes unpopular decisions. With this innovative MESH Business Platform thinking clients are in advance ready to smooth the structural and cultural changes of Industry 5.0, which linear and hierarchical thinking will collapse.

Key take aways

1. Companies will be more competitive by innovative work spaces attracting best talents
2. Companies will be more resilient by simple business processes and organizations running
3. European industry will be leading in human-technology-collaborative manufacturing