MAKI—A Digital Assistant for Practice-Based Learning | 
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Why every factory is a learning factory
| Journal | Industry 4.0 Science |
| Issue | Volume 42, 2026, Edition 2, Pages 70-77 |
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Abstract
With the help of digital assistants, academic teaching is possible in any factory. In order to achieve the best learning effects, however, the interests of all stakeholders must be taken into account. The factory wishes to deploy its employees quickly and productively, the learners desire a positive learning experience, and the educators want to illustrate abstract concepts in a meaningful and practical way. The only way to combine all of these perspectives is via a well-thought-out educational concept and highly functioning technology.
Article
Learning factories offer expanded opportunities for learning production and design techniques due to a practice-oriented curriculum and a special infrastructure that makes the intersections between production and design visible in a business environment [1]. In most cases, this special infrastructure is a factory simulation with a realistic layout and real machines. In such an environment, learners can gain experience that goes beyond the operation of individual machines. For example, they can design and implement cross-functional processes and observe their impact on business variables. Learning then no longer refers to individual pieces of the puzzle but to the …
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