LPS Learning Factory, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Operational Status
Professor: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Kuhlenkötter
- 6 FTEs Research Staff
- 21 training units (industrial)
- 34 training units (university)
- 62 industrial participants were qualified
- 938 students were trained
- 294 works councils were trained (since 2014)
- Over 100 industrial participants were trained since 2011
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/
