Identification & Background 

Project designation: FAIRWork – Flexibilization of complex ecosystems using recommendation and decision support systems based on democratic AI at work

Project code: No. 101069499

Main objective: FAIRWork project provides a decision support system that integrates digital twins to optimize the overall production process according to various parameters and democratizes decision making, giving human workers and machines a voice in decision-making. Each need is consolidated to obtain decision support, which is optimized.
Intervention Region: 5 EU countries, including Austria, Italy, Romania, Germany, Portugal and one partner from Norway.

Partners:
BOC Products & Services AG – BOC Products & Services AG (Líder do Projeto)
Jotne – JOTNE EPM TECHNOLOGY AS
CENTRO RICERCHE FIAT – CENTRO RICERCHE FIAT SCPA
Flex – S.C. FLEXTRONICS ROMANIA S.R.L.
Flex Althofen – Flextronics Internation GmbH
RWTH AACHEN – RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN
JOANNEUM RESEARCH – JOANNEUM RESEARCH FORSCHUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH
OMILAB GGMBH – OMILAB GGMBH
MORE – Mountains of Research Collaborative Laboratory

Date of approval: 2022-03-11
Start date: 2022-09-01
Date of completion: 2025-08-31

Total eligible investment: 3 496 388.35 €
Financial support from the European Union:
2.979.375,00 €

  • Improve Flexibility: Enabling decision support in more complex and timely situations and considering the consequences of decisions.
  • Increase the competence of decision support involving humans and AI interpretation along with digital shadows, twins and data. Thus, the uncertainty of decisions is reduced.
  • Strengthen the perception of trust and fairness as stakeholders cooperate in decision-making or rely on self-calibrated and therefore approved mechanisms.
  • Reinforce the effect of energy efficiency, since relevant energy parameters can be addressed during decision support.
  • Reduce stress situations caused by unforeseen events, as several predictive simulations are performed in advance.
  • Improve optimization of various parameters to reduce time, cost, energy consumption for the same or better quality.
  • Improve reliability and compliance: legal, commercial, social and energy regulations are incorporated into decision-making.
  • WP1 – Project Management;
  • WP2 – FAIRWork Use Case Specification and DAI-DSS Prototype;
  • WP3 – Research on DAI-DSS;
  • WP4 – Development of DAI-DSS;
  • WP5 – Demonstration of FAIRWork in Case Studies;
  • WP6 – FAIRWork Evaluation;
  • WP7 – Communication, Dissemination and Training;
  • WP8 – Exploration and Sustainability.

AI-based Democratic Decision Support System (DAI-DSS):

  • DAI-DSS – Orchestrator for optimization of complex processes that can be added to the existing legal system.
  • DAI-DSS – Configurator modeling processes and decisions for transparency and central management.
  • DAI-DSS – Knowledge base that enriches legal systems.
  • DAI-DSS – AI Enrichment: Collection of AI-based algorithms for optimization, autonomous trading and prediction, which can be individually adapted and used.

Method and Tools for FAIRWork:

  • Methods and guidelines to evaluate and approve AI for reliability, which will be integrated into the DAI-DSS configurator, but can also be used in other tools.
  • Process-based decision models for various input parameters in the form of an open specification to allow re-use regardless of the completion of the DAI-DSS.
  • Models and Concepts to integrate AI, Data, Humans and Robots in the form of publications, reports and data to archive results in an open and royalty-free manner.