This paper focuses on technical‐maintenance worker perspectives on the insertion of digitised drone technologies in the European steel industry. The industry is aiming for a ‘business model transformation’ by means of digitalisation, which includes the use of drone technologies for maintenance functions. In this paper, we explore on what basis might such workers embrace or resist this new technology. Drawing on data from a project investigating the use of drones for a ‘safer, faster and leaner’ workplace, we employ an analysis of technology ‘effects’ to discuss the risks and benefits to workers of drone technologies (see Orlikowski, Organ. Sci., 3, 1992, 398; Edwards and Ramirez, New Technol. Work Employ., 31, 2016, 99). The insertion and use of drone technology within the industry raises questions for the industry’s highly skilled workers and their representatives on the ‘effect’ of drone innovations on the industry’s existing structures and patterns of work.

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一个更安全，更快，更精简的工作场所？技术维护人员对欧洲钢铁行业数字无人机技术“效果”的看法

本文着重于技术维护人员对在欧洲钢铁行业中使用数字化无人机技术的看法。该行业的目标是通过数字化实现“商业模式转型”，其中包括将无人机技术用于维护功能。在本文中，我们探讨了这些工作者在什么基础上可以接受或抵制这项新技术。从项目调查了“更安全，更快捷，更精简”工作场所使用无人驾驶飞机的图纸上的数据，我们采用的技术“效果”的分析，讨论风险和收益无人机技术的工人（见Orlikowski，器官，科学。 ，3，1992，398； Edwards and Ramirez，New Technol。。，31，2016，99）。无人机技术在行业中的插入和使用对行业的高技能工人及其代表提出了质疑，即无人机创新对行业现有结构和工作模式的“影响”。