LPS Learning Factory, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Operational Status
Professor/Director: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Kuhlenkötter
Coordinator: Dr.-Ing. Christopher Prinz
- 20 FTEs Research Staff
- 2 FTE Technician
- 6 FTE Student Assistants
- More than 100 days of training courses (each year)
- More than 1.000 employees educated
- More than 2.000 Students trained
Latest developments
- Human robot collaboration seminar is being developed
- Lean meets Industrie 4.0 seminar has been performed
- Workplace 4.0 seminar has been performed
- Lean Management, Ressource efficiency, workers’ participation, Industrie 4.0 - assistance systems
- Integration and operation of a Manufacturing Execution System
Topics for research and training
- Lean Management
- workers’ participation
- Industrie 4.0 - assistance systems
- Lean meets Industrie 4.0
- Human robot collaboration in manual assembly lines
- Digital Twin and digital Shadow in production systems
- Artifical Intelligence/ Machine Learning (ML) methods for manufacturing processes (e.g. quality control and human activity recognition)
- MES application
- VR applications in Lean/Six Sigma seminars (https://www.lps.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/forschung/projekte/willen
- Future Hub for companies in the „Ruhrgebiet“ (http://www.sfs.tu-dortmund.de/cms/de/Aktuelles/201222_ChangeRuhr_Zukunfts-Hub_Ruhrgebiet/index.html
- Competence Center 4.0 Siegen, Site in Bochum (https://kompetenzzentrum-siegen.digital/
