Description:
Smart Production represents a vision towards and an operationalization beyond Industry 4.0 (I4.0). I4.0 as a concept responded to the significantly changing conditions in the industry in the aftermath of the financial crisis, and aimed to introduce new digital technologies in new market-driven applications. From there it has evolved into an all-encompassing vision of the future society driven by technological advances.
Although some guidance in the form of maturity models and roadmaps from consultants and vendors are available, the I4.0 vision has not yet reached a formative stage where wide spread adoption is assisted by robust and scalable solution, but rather remains a vision of a future manufacturing context and advanced manufacturing technology. This means that after a decade of working with the concept we still need operational approaches and supporting solutions.
Therefore, the concept of Smart Production has been introduced, which has its outset not in the description or development of the foundational technologies alone, but in the operationalization of these in an organizational setting and its systems architecture.
Hence, in this course, we will discuss the perspectives and contents of the Smart Production concept and provide some tools for researching and implementing Smart production.
The course will be divided into six themes:
Theme 1: The vision of smart production
• Background and history
• Link to Industry 4.0
• Opportunities and challenges
Theme 2: Smart production technologies
• Introduction to the family of technologies
• Technology evaluation
Theme 3: Examples of integrated solutions
Theme 4: Competences and human factors
• Competences, culture
• Learning factories
• Learning, Training and Assistance in Smart production (Methods, Tools, Formats)
Theme 5: Interaction, implementation and transformation
• Survey of methodologies
• Maturity assessment methods
Theme 6: What is next ?
• Industry 5.0
The course will consist of a number of lectures, combined with several workshop activities were the students works on specific cases.
Organiser: Professor Ole Madsen, om@mp.aau.dk
Lecturers: Professor Ulrich Berger, BTU, Germany
Professor Charles Møller, AAU
Professor Brian Vejrum Væhrens, AAU
Associate Professor Astrid Heidemann Lassen, AAU
Assistant Professor Casper Schou, AAU
Professor Ole Madsen, AAU
Invited guest lectures
ECTS: 3
Time: October 2023
Place: Aalborg University
Deadline: Sep 2023
Important information concerning PhD courses:
We have over some time experienced problems with no-show for both project and general courses. It has now reached a point where we are forced to take action. Therefore, the Doctoral School has decided to introduce a no-show fee of DKK 3.000 for each course where the student does not show up. Cancellations are accepted no later than 2 weeks before start of the course. Registered illness is of course an acceptable reason for not showing up on those days. Furthermore, all courses open for registration approximately four months before start. This can hopefully also provide new students a chance to register for courses during the year. We look forward to your registrations.