Learning Factories: Concepts, Guidelines, Best-Practice Examples

✍ Scribed by Eberhard Abele, Joachim Metternich, Michael Tisch

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 474
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book presents the state of the art of learning factories. It outlines the motivations, historic background, and the didactic foundations of learning factories. Definitions of the term learning factory and a corresponding morphological model are provided as well as a detailed overview of existing learning factory approaches in industry and academia, showing the broad range of different applications and varying contents. Learning factory best-practice examples are presented in detailed and structured manner. The state of the art of learning factories curricula design and their use to enhance learning and research as well as potentials and limitations are presented. Further research priorities and innovative learning factory concepts to overcome current barriers are offered. While today numerous learning factories have been built in industry (big automotive companies, pharma companies, etc.) and academia in the last decades, a comprehensive handbook for the scientific community and practitioners alike is still missing. The book addresses therefore both researchers in production-related areas, that want to conduct industry-relevant research and education, as well as managers and engineers in industry, who are searching for an effective way to train their employees. In addition to this, the learning factory concept is also regarded as an innovative learning concept in the field of didactics.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xx
Challenges for Future Production/Manufacturing (Eberhard Abele, Joachim Metternich, Michael Tisch)....Pages 1-21
Competencies for Future Production (Michael Tisch, Eberhard Abele, Joachim Metternich)....Pages 23-57
Learning in Production, Learning for Production (Michael Tisch, Eberhard Abele, Joachim Metternich)....Pages 59-79
Historical Development, Terminology, and Definition of Learning Factories (Eberhard Abele, Joachim Metternich, Michael Tisch)....Pages 81-97
The Variety of Learning Factory Concepts (Michael Tisch, Eberhard Abele, Joachim Metternich)....Pages 99-125
The Life Cycle of Learning Factories for Competency Development (Michael Tisch, Eberhard Abele, Joachim Metternich)....Pages 127-198
Overview on Existing Learning Factory Application Scenarios (Michael Tisch, Eberhard Abele, Joachim Metternich)....Pages 199-262
Overview on the Content of Existing Learning Factories (Eberhard Abele, Joachim Metternich, Michael Tisch)....Pages 263-287
Overview on Potentials and Limitations of Existing Learning Factory Concept Variations (Michael Tisch, Eberhard Abele, Joachim Metternich)....Pages 289-321
Projects and Groups Related to Learning Factories (Eberhard Abele, Joachim Metternich, Michael Tisch)....Pages 323-334
Best Practice Examples (Eberhard Abele, Joachim Metternich, Michael Tisch)....Pages 335-459
Conclusion and Outlook (Eberhard Abele, Joachim Metternich, Michael Tisch)....Pages 461-464

✦ Subjects

Engineering; Industrial and Production Engineering; Engineering/Technology Education; Production