Perspective of Industry 4.0 (2018)

Welcome to Perspective of Industry 4.0

Description: The Danish, as well as the European manufacturing is under pressure and change. High production cost makes it harder for Danish manufacturing companies to justify maintaining production in Denmark. Instead production is moved to areas with a significantly lower salary level (e.g Eastern Europe or China). Simultaneously, significant developments in science and technology (IT, mechatronics, materials technology, etc.) are made, constantly providing manufacturing companies new possibilities for the development of new products, processes and services.

To be competitive, it is necessary for companies to develop new products, processes and services with ever increasing frequency. Timing, exploitation and implementation of new technologies is essential. If this happens too early or too late can have consequences for the competitiveness of enterprises and ultimately threaten their survival.

Governments in many countries have initiated a number of research and development programs that are designed to meet the above challenges in manufacturing.

One of these initiatives is the German "Industry 4.0" initiative (4 Industrial Revolution), where the government is working with large companies and stakeholders as FESTO, SAP, SIEMENS, Daimler, Volkswagen and others to formulate and realize a vision for the future production. The budget for Industry 4.0 is over 400 million euros. Similar initiatives have started in the United States (Advanced Manufacturing), EU (Factory-of-the-future), Sweden etc.

Common to these initiatives is that they are based on the hypothesis that the challenges can be met through the use of innovation from IT and mechatronic area where the exponential growth in processing power as well as innovations such as "Internet-of-things", "Cyber-Physical Systems" "collaborative robots", "Big data", "Cloud computing", etc. will give manufacturing a wide range of new opportunities.

In this course, we will discuss the perspectives and contents of Industry 4.0.

A particular focus will be on how companies and manage and control the needed digital transformation.

Organizer: Professor Ole Madsen, e-mail: om@mp.aau.dk

Lecturers: Main lecturer: Professor Ulrich Berger, Brandenburg University of Technology. Support team: Professor Ole Madsen, Professor Charles Møller, and Professor Brian Vejrum Væhrens

ECTS: 3

Time: 22-24 May 2018

Place: Aalborg University

Zip code: 9220

City: Aalborg Øst

Number of seats: 30

Deadline: 1 May 2018

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