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Epistemic Debt: A Concept and Measure of Technical Ignorance in Smart Manufacturing

verfasst von : Tudor B. Ionescu, Sebastian Schlund, Christina Schmidbauer

Erschienen in: Advances in Human Factors and Systems Interaction

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This paper introduces the notion of epistemic debt as an analytical tool for understanding and managing the effects of technical ignorance in smart manufacturing. Drawing on the concepts of technical and social debt from software engineering, the metaphor of epistemic debt refers to the implied long-term costs of rework (e.g., redesign, replacement, reconfiguration or systems and/or organizational structures) caused by a lack of understanding and/or means of knowing the internals of complex software-based manufacturing systems essential to the value chain and core business of an organization. After defining the concept, we identify three of its sources and propose strategies for coping with epistemic debt in manufacturing.

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Fußnoten
1
Technical debt (also known as design debt or code debt) is a concept in software development that reflects the implied cost of additional rework caused by choosing an easy solution now instead of using a better approach that would take longer [3].
 
2
Social debt is analogous to technical debt in many ways: it represents the state of software development organizations as the result of “accumulated” decisions. In the case of social debt, decisions are about people and their interactions [4].
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Epistemic Debt: A Concept and Measure of Technical Ignorance in Smart Manufacturing
verfasst von
Tudor B. Ionescu
Sebastian Schlund
Christina Schmidbauer
Copyright-Jahr
2020
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20040-4_8

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