Training

Networked Learning Factories as Trailblazers

Networked Learning Factories as Trailblazers

Digital pioneering work for modern education
Julian Buitmann, Robert Holling ORCID Icon, Steffen Greiser ORCID Icon
Learning factories promote digital transformation through an interdisciplinary approach between lean management, Industry 4.0, energy efficiency, training center or research farm. SME centers are characterized by the on-site integration of small and medium-sized companies. Such a regional strategy, combined with learning factories, promotes a goal-oriented dialog between science and practice where students can put their theoretical knowledge to the test.
Industry 4.0 Science | Volume 40 | Edition 4 | Pages 16-23
Digital Transformation Coaching

Digital Transformation Coaching

Employee development as a supplement to change management in transformation processes
Michael Bauer, Eric Grosse ORCID Icon
Digital transformation processes have a high tendency for delay, exceeding costs, and failure. This poses a significant risk in competitive global markets and shifting business models of entire industries. Successful companies have a different approach to new technologies than more traditional incumbents. Including the workforce in the transformation via change leadership in a digital transformation coaching process can reduce fear and resistance and can lead to a paradigm shift of approaching the digital transformation itself: as an agility driven, infinite game with high potential gain.
Industry 4.0 Science | Volume 40 | 2024 | Edition 3 | Pages 33-40
Transformation in the Automotive Industry

Transformation in the Automotive Industry

Overcoming employee-related challenges with effective leadership
Stefan Süß ORCID Icon, Ingo Klingenberg ORCID Icon, Maximilian Kellerer, Phillip Nguyen
Transformative forces present companies with enormous challenges. At the same time, new forms of collaboration and new roles and responsibilities are emerging. Due to the risks associated with change, many employees hold on to old habits and work processes, which can slow down positive developments. The challenge for managers is to recognize this resistance, prevent it and turn it into acceptance or even proactive support.
Industry 4.0 Science | Volume 40 | Edition 3 | Pages 21-26
Sustainable HR Management

Sustainable HR Management

Its importance for realizing sustainability in industrial manufacturing
Uta Kirschten
Industrial manufacturing offers a wide range of opportunities for a more ecologically compatible and socially just organization. Sustainability-oriented HR management can competently support industrial manufacturing companies in the design and implementation of sustainable manufacturing. It is important to integrate ecological, social and economic requirements into the respective areas of responsibility. In addition, employees must be motivated and qualified to adopt environmentally friendly working practices in order to be able to implement sustainable manufacturing in practice. Sustainable incentive systems and employee-oriented personnel management must also be taken into account.
Industry 4.0 Science | Volume 40 | 2024 | Edition 1 | Pages 50-56
Digital Business Models in Medium­Sized Family Businesses

Digital Business Models in Medium­Sized Family Businesses

Obstacles to the Estab­lishment and How They Are Defeated
Ove Friedrichsen, Michael Heins
Digital transformation is a crucial factor for the competitiveness of companies. This article explores obstacles and their interrelationships in establishing digital business models in medium-sized family businesses as well as initial approaches to overcoming these obstacles.
Industrie 4.0 Management | Volume 39 | 2023 | Edition 6 | Pages 12-16 | DOI 10.30844/IM_23-6_12-16
Innovation Laboratory Digitalization

Innovation Laboratory Digitalization

Product Development Utilizing Design Thinking in a Makerspace
Michael Mattern, Sebastian Bast ORCID Icon, Kai Scherer ORCID Icon, Klaus-Uwe Gollmer ORCID Icon, Michael Wahl
Makerspaces foster creativity, collaborative work and craftsmanship. Anyone interested can use tools, machines and technologies to realize their own projects and develop their technical skills in the process. They also provide an inspiring environment where people with different backgrounds and expertise come together to learn, experiment and support each other. The following article discusses the importance, features and equipment of makerspaces, in particular the Innovation Laboratory Digitalization, which promotes interdisciplinary work at the Trier University of Applied Sciences and serves as an interface to the specialized labs. In addition, the process of prototyping is described using several application examples.
Industrie 4.0 Management | Volume 39 | 2023 | Edition 6 | Pages 61-65 | DOI 10.30844/IM_23-6_61-65
Open Innovation

Open Innovation

Strengthening Innovation in SMEs
Annette Henn ORCID Icon, Dirk Sackmann
Despite the fact that SME innovation is critical to a country’s economic success, SMEs spend less than 50 % of their budget on R&D when compared to large companies. “Open innovation”is seen as helping SMEs to improve their competitive position. For regions dominated by SMEs it is important to develop an ecosystem that supports open innovation processes. Universities can be key enablers within these ecosystems. They support SMEs with their expertise in science and engineering as well as in innovation and project management. In this article we present a case study to demonstrate the role of a university of applied sciences in an open innovation ecosystem.
Industrie 4.0 Management | Volume 39 | 2023 | Edition 6 | Pages 17-21
Optimizing Production Processes with AI-based Knowledge Transfer

Optimizing Production Processes with AI-based Knowledge Transfer

How AI can secure human-oriented, experiential knowledge in the KI-eeper project
Nicole Ottersböck, Holger Dander ORCID Icon, Christian Prange ORCID Icon
Implicit experiential knowledge will be lost through the retirement of the babyboomer generation. This know-how is difficult to capture and transfer. The KI_eeper project aims to develop an efficient AI-based system that automatically identifies and stores knowledge in the work process. The resulting knowledge base will provide assistance to all employees. The system will be designed in cooperation with employees according to their needs to gain high user acceptance.
Industrie 4.0 Management | Volume 39 | 2023 | Edition 6 | Pages 51-54
Potentials and Application of the Industrial Metaverse

Potentials and Application of the Industrial Metaverse

Convergence from simulation to reality
Oliver Petrovic, Yannick Dassen, Christian Brecher
This paper deals with the concept of the Industrial Metaverse and its potential impact on the manufacturing industry. First, the possibilities of the Industrial Metaverse are explained in general and then possible resulting functionalities for production technology along the life cycle are presented. For the two topics "Synthetic Data Generation" and "Virtual Qualification" the implications of the Industrial Metaverse are considered more concretely.
Industrie 4.0 Management | Volume 39 | 2023 | Edition 5 | Pages 27-32 | DOI 10.30844/IM_23-5_27-32
Tool for Data-Based Continuous Improvement in Manufacturing Companies

Tool for Data-Based Continuous Improvement in Manufacturing Companies

Konstantin Neumann, Nicole Oertwig ORCID Icon
The introduction of Lean Management System and their continuous improvement regularly poses challenges for companies. In the face of advancing digitalisation, new opportunities for analysis are opening up that also support the continuous improvement process. The article shows how process orientation, digitalisation and operational activities can be systematically applied for the development and integration of a data-based continuous improvement process in manufacturing companies. (Only in German)
Industrie 4.0 Management | Volume 39 | 2023 | Edition 5 | Pages 13-16
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