Training and Qualification

From Industry 3.0 to Smart Factory
In factories there are more and more intelligent systems that have knowledge about the manufacturing process and make their own decisions. Until now, machines and robots have mainly communicated with each other and not with humans. In future, when they make their own decisions - for example, that a workpiece must be preferred to another because it is more important or more urgent, they must in turn pass this on to those who control the entire process: the employees.

Humans and their place in industry 4.0
In a factory with intelligent technical systems, the role of the employees also changes. They are no longer button-pushers or inserters, but rather have to intervene to control, repair or make decisions. They become flexible acting problem solvers. In the long term, humans and machines have to be enabled to work hand in hand. In this way, employees have to be picked up where they are today and gain acceptance.

Staff training in the learning factory
The Learning Factory in the Centre for Industry 4.0 focuses on an employee-oriented approach to the Industry 4.0 concept. In continuing education projects, participants are encouraged to explore their own working environment and possible changes with the help of practical experience. The main focus here is on the application and experience of practical scenarios. In our facility, it is already possible to simulate what a factory of the future will look like and to test a wide range of scenarios - from malfunctions to programme changes and changing order stocks. This means that every company is able to try out its factory scenarios of the future and train on them.

Hybrid simulation environment
Our centre includes a fully integrated and functional IT stack from programmable logic controllers on the machine to manufacturing execution, ERP and management information systems. Real technology in logistics, robotics and IT is used to visually and haptically illustrate almost any scenario of future value-added processes by means of simulated machines and workpieces. The fast and low-effort linking of physically or virtually provided production objects allows us to demonstrate the benefits of Industry 4.0 technology in a vivid and realistic way in the concrete process. The highly fexibile infrastructure can be configurated for various scenarios, in order to make Industry 4.0 and its potential accessible in an interactive and application-oriented way.

Real data and real technology to promote immersion
As the work is done with real data and real technology, this unique presentation helps to depict a realistic factory environment and to show different production scenarios or forms of organisation. Due to the production-like environment conditions, a high degree of immersion is achieved, which makes it easier for the participants to transfer the learning content to their own factory environment.

Flexible design of learning scenarios
The flexibility of the solution enables the focus on different learning contents and associated competences in the environment of Industry 4.0. The learning scenarios can thus be specifically varied for different target groups, e.g. production managers, foremen and machine operators.

From Industry 3.0 to Smart Factory
In factories, there are more and more intelligent systems that have knowledge about the manufacturing process and make decisions themselves. Until now, machines and robots have mainly communicated with each other and not with humans. If they make their own decisions in the future - for example, that a workpiece must be preferred to another because it is more important or more urgent - they have to pass this on to those who control the entire process: the employees. 

People and their place in industry 4.0
In a factory with intelligent technical systems, the role of the employees also changes. They are no longer button-pushers or inserters, but have to intervene in a controlling way, repair or make decisions. They become flexible problem solvers. In the long term, man and machine have to be enabled to work hand in hand. In this way, the employees have to be picked up where they are today and acceptance has to be created. 

Extended qualification as a success factor for industry 4.0
The integration of IT into the production process that goes hand in hand with Industry 4.0 means massive changes in the work content and an expansion of the qualification profiles of the skilled workers in the companies. Successful qualification for Industry 4.0 cannot be achieved solely through traditional training and further training formats such as face-to-face events. Rather, it is dependent on new application formats which address the employees in a target group and, above all, in a needs-specific manner.

From Industry 3.0 to Intelligent Factory
To make the effects of Industry 4.0 practically tangible, our training courses usually start with a demonstration of a typical scenario of conventional production. In addition to process sequences with non-"intelligent" workpieces, plants and machines, the focus is on manual machine configuration and troubleshooting as well as production inefficiencies/communication bottlenecks due to missing feedback loops. 

Recognising the potential of Industry 4.0
This will be followed by presentations on Industry 4.0, Internet of Things technologies and the impact on work organisation. Among other things, the opportunities and potentials of Industry 4.0 for employees, success stories from the field and concrete examples of use in practice as well as the new demands on employees' skills will be discussed. The lecturers will provide input, so that a participatory discussion between all participants is already initiated at this stage. In addition to human-centred and automated production, organisational principles and control procedures, the focus will be on the development of different competence facets as well as industry 4.0-induced opportunities at strategic company level.

Industry 4.0 itself
An important part of the training is the practical application of IoT technology. Among other things, Augmented Reality (AR) glasses, AutoID technologies, context-sensitive information provision and the handling of assistance systems will be demonstrated in a practical way according to the participants' level of knowledge, so that they can experiment with them independently. In a subsequent interactive learning scenario, the participants have to apply the knowledge they have gained in such a way that they now act themselves as employees in a production scenario and, under the guidance of a learning guide and assistance by means of available technologies, knowledge and skills, they are to introduce a priority into the current production programme.

Human-machine communication
The different challenges within the learning scenario require the participants to actively deal with and develop their own organisational competence. Within the scenario, they are encouraged to develop their personal interaction competence through the exchange of information between humans and humans or humans and machines via operating terminal, tablet or verbal communication.

Understanding sensor data
When programming a Raspberry Pi, discovery learning is used to show the participants how sensor data can be used in different operational scenarios. Furthermore, application examples from the production context are replicated.

Focus Participation
The conception and preparation of the topics is designed for participation, so that interested target and stakeholder groups are consciously involved and can gain experience and participate to the highest possible degree. A concluding discussion of the most important issues takes place in the form of a World Café. A keynote speech will provide the impetus for the discussion. This format especially enables reflection and thus the internalisation of the experiences and contents of the training.

The Centre Industry 4.0 portfolio includes training courses on the following topics:

• Impact of Industry 4.0 on work organisation
  Effects of cyber-physical systems on manufacturing processes
  New job requirements and skills
  External control and scope for new roles and types of activities
  Human-Computer Interaction and Collaboration
  Role of empirical knowledge of the employees
  Augmented Reality
  Context-sensitive provision of information
  Assistance systems
  Decentralised production control
  Internet of Things and the Digital Factory
  Feedback loops in production

Understanding Industry 4.0

What does Industry 4.0 stand for and what does the future of work look like? With guided tours, the Centre for Industrie 4.0 offers the opportunity to experience and assess the Industry 4.0 building blocks and their purposeful combination on the basis of interactive scenarios from the factory. Within the simulation environment, they will see different hardware components, software elements and modern technologies in practical use in an Industry 4.0 factory. Different scenarios from the manufacturing context provide ideas about concrete measures or help to assess the expected benefits of Industry 4.0. Our demonstration environment offers a highly flexible infrastructure that can be configured for different scenarios in order to experience Industry 4.0 and its potential in an application-oriented and interactive way.

Hybrid simulation environment
Our centre includes a fully integrated and functional IT stack from programmable logic controllers on the machine to manufacturing execution, ERP and management information systems. Real technology in logistics, robotics and IT is used to visually and haptically illustrate almost any scenario of future value-added processes by means of simulated machines and workpieces. The fast and low-effort linking of physically or virtually provided production objects allows us to demonstrate the benefits of Industry 4.0 technology in a vivid and realistic way in the concrete process. The highly flexible infrastructure can be configured for various scenarios in order to make Industry 4.0 and its potential accessible in an interactive and application-oriented way.

Test and experience Industry 4.0
Since real data and real technology are used, this unique representation helps to create a realistic factory environment and to depict different production scenarios or forms of organisation. For example, experience the advantages of augmented reality assistance systems in the role of a worker during machine maintenance or master an unexpected situation by means of high information availability through mobile technologies.

Lectures with practical relevance and examples of use
We will give presentations on the topics of Industry 4.0, Internet of Things technologies and the impact on work organisation. Among other things, the opportunities and potential of Industry 4.0 for employees, success stories from the field and concrete examples of use in practice as well as the new demands on employees' skills will be discussed. 

In addition, the portfolio also includes lecture focuses on the following topics:

• Impact of Industry 4.0 on work organisation
• Effects of cyber-physical systems on manufacturing processes
• New job requirements and competences
• External control and scope for new roles and types of activities
• Human-Computer Interaction and Collaboration
• Role of empirical knowledge of the employees
  
• Augmented Reality
• Context-sensitive provision of information
• Assistance systems
• Decentralised production control
• Internet of Things and the Digital Factory
• Feedback loops in production

From Industry 3.0 to Smart Factory
In factories, there are more and more intelligent systems that have knowledge about the manufacturing process and make decisions themselves. Until now, machines and robots have mainly communicated with each other and not with humans. If they make their own decisions in the future - for example, that a workpiece must be preferred to another because it is more important or more urgent - they have to pass this on to those who control the entire process: the employees.

People and their place in industry 4.0
In a factory with intelligent technical systems, the role of the employees also changes. They are no longer button-pushers or inserters, but have to intervene in a controlling way, repair or make decisions. They become flexible problem solvers. In the long term, they have to
Man and machine are enabled to work hand in hand. In this way, the employees have to be picked up where they are today and acceptance has to be created.

Extended qualification as a success factor for industry 4.0
The integration of IT into the production process that goes hand in hand with Industry 4.0 means massive changes in the work content and an expansion of the qualification profiles of the skilled workers in the companies. Successful qualification for Industry 4.0 cannot be achieved solely through traditional training and further training formats such as face-to-face events. Rather, it is dependent on new application formats which address employees in a target group and, above all, needs-specific manner.

Hybrid simulation environment
Our centre includes a fully integrated and functional IT stack from programmable logic controllers on the machine to manufacturing execution, ERP and management information systems. Real technology in logistics, robotics and IT is used to visually and haptically illustrate almost any scenario of future value-added processes by means of simulated machines and workpieces. The fast and low-effort linking of physically or virtually provided production objects allows us to demonstrate the benefits of Industry 4.0 technology in a vivid and realistic way in the concrete process. The highly flexible infrastructure can be configured for various scenarios in order to make Industry 4.0 and its potential accessible in an interactive and application-oriented way.

Real data and real technology to promote immersion
Since real data and real technology are used, this unique representation helps to create a realistic factory environment and to depict different production scenarios or forms of organisation. In addition, the production-like environmental conditions create a high level of immersion for the participants.

Experience and test concepts
We will carry out exercises at digitally supported assembly workstations and learn how to handle assistance systems, simulate networked production processes, use data glasses for augmented and virtual reality, learn about AutoID technologies and context-sensitive information provision and receive a practical introduction to sensor data in order to make it usable in various operational scenarios.