Advantages of Learning Factories for Production Planning Based on Shop Floor Simulation: A Step towards Smart Factories in Industry 4.0

Abstract

In future industry, defined as Industry 4.0, production planning and control strategies will be executed by human beings backed by computational tools for decision making; One of these tools is shop floor simulation, and a natural scenario to learn about how to use it for productive processes design and control are the Learning Factories. In this chapter, shop floor simulation is identified as a tool for planning and controlling production, also a state of the art about its implementation is exposed in academic and industrial environments. In addition, the trends in the construction of the Learning Factories are shown, and some aspects about how they can be used for shop floor simulation. This work also proposes the realization of a digital model in EAFIT University Learning Factory as a first step towards digital learning factory.

Education 4.0, Industry 4.0, Lifelong Learning: A Descriptive Literature Review

“…However, most of these articles do not discuss the education 4.0 concept. Other articles on industry 4.0 focused on the technologies of industry 4.0 that can be used in education such as Internet of Things (Kazimirov, 2018;Sim and Choi, 2020;Wanyama, 2017), machine learning (Ciolacu, Tehrani, et al, 2017), intelligent agent (IA) (Bogoviz et al, 2019;Popenici and Kerr, 2017), and augment reality (Andrés et al, 2019;Mourtzis et al, 2019;Schuldt and Friedemann, 2017;Schuster et al, 2016). Furthermore, the contribution of these Industry 4.0 technologies towards education was discussed in some articles (Almeida and Simoes, 2019;Butler-Adam, 2018;Clavert, 2019;Shahroom and Hussin, 2018;Stankovski et al, 2019;Xing and Marwala, 2017).…”