The changes in the manufacturing happen faster and faster. Sustainable and customized manufacturing are the main keywords to characterize nowadays manufacturing. For this purpose the new paradigm of manufacturing has been developed. It is called the new industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) where new business models, reconfigurable robot-based manufacturing, Internet of things, intelligent adaptable manufacturing processes, etc are the main topics. The new needs in manufacturing are interdisciplinary thinking, more complex and sophisticated workplaces and processes, new skills and complex knowledge, a lot of collaborative and cross-cultural competences, on-line support for decision making. Therefore we have concentrated on developing a solid supportive platform for nowadays modern manufacturing. By projects´activities, supporting synergies between education, research and innovation are employed with the support of ICT. The project offers possibilities to offer employees high-quality learning that are tailored to the needs of the industry and adult learners as well as vocational education students. Adult learning and vocational education are tightly connected in this project. So the project will support the uptake of innovation approaches and digital technologies for teaching and learning, outlined in the Digital Education Action Plan. The best practices, novel approaches in education, needs of partner countries' industries, possibilities and competences of partner educational organizations are considered in development of intellectual outputs. Our direct target groups are: students of robotics/mechatronics of partner educational institutions who due to new AI enabled digital e-learning materials and library will be more competitive in labor market; employees attending in adult training programs in robotics/mechatronics and using the developed materials, whom competence will raise; organizations attending in the project who gather more competence and gather more students and adults due to innovative learning materials. Indirect target groups are: companies who achieve employees with appropriate education / training and will be more competitive; other educational institutions who can use the materials and experiences of the project for improving their curricula. For achieving all above-mentioned we have a good team of educational institutions (TTHK, RTK, SeAMK) and competence centre, doing research and training and counseling about the needs of the industry and trends in robotics/mechatroncis (IMECC). Through this consortium, education and industry are brought closer to each other. Intellectual outputs of the project are: - Methodology for digital competences in the field of robotics/mechatronics - Artificial intelligence (AI) enabled smart e-learning materials for future specialists of robot-based work-places. - Integration of Digital Intelligent Education in Robotics/Mechatronics into Digital Learning Platform (DLP) The outputs of this project that are targeted to vocational training as well as adult training, are possible to broaden also to advanced trainings for other educational institutions and offered for employees of the companies. The most interesting and attractive is the AI enabled digital e-learning materials that are possible to use for advanced trainings and therefore the educational institutions will find new students as well as the students and company employees using the these materials to obtain more knowledge that makes them more competitive in labor market as well as helps companies to increase their efficiency and profitability. As human resources are one of the most important resources in the company, education that responds to the needs of the industry will provide companies with competent employees thereby increasing the productivity, effectiveness and competitiveness of the companies and the industry as a whole.
The objective was to develop the methodology and corresponding teaching materials in the field of robotics/mechatronics for these use in an innovative e-learning environment. Through visualization and virtualization, the digital learning materials are based on robotics work-cell of actual work-places. The platform used support the interactive, recursive teaching process with the following needs: hierarchical teaching problem description, results analysis with the help of explanations, identifying patterns and making decisions, based on them, interaction with visualization of the situations. The aim was to change teaching process more interactive and attractive, to make difficult technical subjects more easily understandable and available, using also game-based principles. Therefore VET students will obtain competences that the industry needs and become more competitive in labour market. Companies have workforce in the future that has competences they need. As labour force is one of the most important resources of the company, then the assumptions for better competitiveness of the companies would be created. Also through improved teaching process increases competitiveness of the educational institutions and their revenues.
Sustainable and customised manufacturing are the main keywords to characterise nowadays manufacturing. For this purpose the new paradigm of manufacturing has been developed. It is called the new industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) where new business models, reconfigurable robot-based manufacturing, Internet of things, intelligent adaptable manufacturing processes, etc are the main topics. The new needs in manufacturing are interdisciplinary thinking, more complex and sophisticated workplaces and processes, new skills and complex knowledge, a lot of collaborative and cross-cultural competences, on-line support for decision making. Therefore we have concentrated on developing a solid supportive platform for nowadays modern manufacturing. By projects´ activities, supporting synergies between education, research and innovation are employed with the support of ICT. The project offers possibilities to offer employees high-quality learning that are tailored to the needs of the industry and adult learners as well as vocational education students. So the project will support the uptake of innovation approaches and digital technologies for teaching and learning, outlined in the Digital Education Action Plan.