Smart Learning Factory – Network Approach for Learning and Transfer in a Digital & Physical Set up

The smart factory promises significant cost savings particularly for high cost labor markets. The challenge in teaching smart factory courses or digitalization of manufacturing is the complexity of the topic. The smart factory is understood as a future state of a fully connected and flexible manufacturing system, operating autonomously or with optimized interaction between humans and machines by generating, transferring, receiving and processing necessary data to conduct all required tasks for producing different types of goods.