Development of Inclusive and Technology-Supported Assembly Workplaces: An Axiomatic Design Approach

As Industry 5.0 drives a shift toward socially sustainable, human-centered manufacturing, designing workplaces accessible to individuals with disabilities remains a critical challenge. Traditional industrial environments often lack the flexibility to accommodate diverse abilities, resulting in exclusion and performance gaps. This paper utilizes Axiomatic Design (AD) to establish structured guidelines for integrating inclusive principles with emerging technologies. By leveraging AD's systematic decomposition, the framework translates stakeholder needs into three core functional requirements: ensuring process accessibility, enhancing ergonomic and psychosocial well-being, and enabling technology-supported autonomy. The proposed framework maps these requirements onto specific design solutions, such as collaborative robotics and augmented reality. By bridging the gap between high-level social sustainability and practical engineering, this research provides a scalable roadmap for developing industrial workplaces that are both operationally efficient and universally inclusive.

Keywords: Inclusion, Axiomatic Design, Accessibility. Human-Centered Design, Industry 5.0.