10.18453/rosdok_id00002421 Sadik, Ahmed Rabee Ahmed Ahmed Rabee Ahmed Sadik Universität Rostock 2018 620 Engineering & allied operations 670 Manufacturing 2018 en http://purl.uni-rostock.de/rosdok/id00002421 urn:nbn:de:gbv:28-rosdok_id00002421-7 Cooperative manufacturing is a new field of research, which addresses new challenges beyond the physical safety of the worker. Those new challenges appear due to the need to connect the worker and the cobot from the informatics point of view in one cooperative workcell. This requires developing an appropriate manufacturing control system, which fits the nature of both the worker and the cobot. Furthermore, the manufacturing control system must be able to understand the production variations, to guide the cooperation between worker and the cobot and adapt with the production variations.