Enhancing a Lean Production board game with Industry 4.0 technologies

This course integrates real technologies from manufacturing into a class of 20-30 students to gradually develop a more productive truck factory. The factory is the classroom, and the trucks are built with LEGO bricks. Besides learning about fundamental principles in production management, we showcase four technologies that contribute to end-to-end digitization of a production system: additive manufacturing (AM), worker instructions and production control enabled by a manufacturing execution system (MES), quality inspection enabled by explainable artificial intelligence (AI), and material flow analysis enabled by process mining (PM). Students learn how lean production differs from other forms of production and how digital transformation has the potential to change and improve manufacturing.
Teachers: Prof. Torbjørn Netland and Dr. Rafael Lorenz
with the help of Dr. Xiaoyu Zhang, Alexander Albers, Selcuk Taskin, Ciril Bullinger, and Nils Löwhagen