Perspectives of Industry 4.0 and Smart production (2025)

Welcome to Perspectives of Industry 40 and Smart production

Description: 

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

The course is divided into five themes:

• Theme 1: The Smart production vision
  • Background
  • History
  • Aims and Objectives
• Theme 2: Smart production technology
  • Introduction to the family of technologies
  • Technology evaluation
• Theme 3: Integrated solutions
  • The new role and responsibility of suppliers (system and goods suppliers), benefits and drawbacks of novel supply models, implications for new business models
• Theme 4: Human factors
  • Competences, culture
  • Learning, Training and Assistance in Industry 4.0 (Methods, Tools, Formats)
• Theme 5: Interaction, implementation and transformation
  • Survey of methodologies
  • Maturity assessment – AAUs 360

The course will consists of a number of lectures, combined with several workshop activities were the students works on specific cases.

Prerequisites: 

Learning objectives: 

Form of evaluation:

The students will be divided into groups of 2-4 persons. For the evaluation of the course, each student group will have to hand in:

1. A summary of the technology evaluation from day 1 (powerpoint and drawings)
2. A small report on the designed factory from day two (a video AND a report (a sketch + max two page)).
3. Maturity assessment (powerpoint for the managers of Smart Lab) day 3

Key literature: 

Organizer: 

Ole Madsen, professor, om@mp.aau.dk

Lecturers: 

Professor Ulrich Berger, BTU, Germany

Professor Ole Madsen, AAU

Guest speakers from industry/research

ECTS: 3

Time: 6,7,8 October 2025

Place: Aalborg University

Zip code: 9220

City: Aalborg

Maximal number of participants: 30

Deadline: 15 September 2025

Important information concerning PhD courses: 

There is 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 the 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 of the course.

We cannot ensure any seats before the deadline for enrolment, all participants will be informed after the deadline, approximately 3 weeks before the start of the course.

For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, please contact the PhD administration at phdcourses@adm.aau.dk When contacting us please state the course title and course period. Thank you.