Advancement in production engineering education through Virtual Learning Factory Toolkit concept
Journal article, 2021

The growing relevance of digitalization in production requires the enhancement of human skills and competences in the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Higher education has to cope with this need by providing the necessary ICT skills to future industrial engineers, so that they have a good understanding of the complexity of industries in the 21st century. This paper presents the conceptual development and testing of a Virtual Learning Factory Toolkit (VLFT) that integrates digital tools used in production management with engineering education. The digital tools integrated into the VLFT can help students to exploit enabling technologies such as simulation and virtual reality in their manufacturing studies and practical projects with industrial companies. Moreover, digital tools were tested by using a structured workflow that consists of different learning activities related to manufacturing system configuration. Students practised the digital tools with the help of use cases in the form of joint learning labs, after which the students’ feedback was collected and analysed.

Manufacturing systems

Digital tools

Virtual learning factory

Production engineering

Author

Kashif Mahmood

Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech)

Tauno Otto

Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech)

Vladimir Kuts

Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech)

Walter Terkaj

Consiglo Nazionale Delle Richerche

Gianfranco Modoni

Consiglo Nazionale Delle Richerche

Marcello Urgo

Polytechnic University of Milan

Giorgio Colombo

Polytechnic University of Milan

Geza Haidegger

Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Peter Kovacs

Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Johan Stahre

Chalmers, Industrial and Materials Science, Production Systems

Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences

1736-6046 (ISSN) 1736-7530 (eISSN)

Vol. 70 4 374-382

Subject Categories

Learning

Information Science

Information Systemes, Social aspects

Learning and teaching

Pedagogical work

DOI

10.3176/proc.2021.4.02

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1/10/2022