The DigiFoF project proposes a network of training environments where HEIs, enterprises, and training institutions come together to develop skill profiles, trainings concepts as well as materials for design aspects of the Factory of the Future (FoF). It will create an organizational structure to foster knowledge transfer between industry and academia, aiming to provide educational and experimental OMiLAB4FoF laboratories, where FoF-aspects can be taught practically or experimented with. These will be equipped with modeling, simulation and analysis tools targeting: strategic aspects of FoF (innovative business models, product-service systems, design thinking, crowd-production), process aspects (business process management, enterprise architecture management, product-lifecycle-management) and systems aspects (digital factory, product design, CPS and embedded intelligence, security and safety management). Disciplines addressed by the network are: engineering (product design and engineering, automation, embedded systems etc.), business administration, computer science, information systems management, industrial management, supply chain management and logistics, service science. The sectoral focus of DigiFoF lies in the manufacturing domain. The project will create a portfolio of innovative results (a) on organizational level: a DigiFoF Design Competence Network (an industry-academia knowledge and human resource exchange system), 5 OMiLAB4FoF laboratories and a joint Open Badge certification for vocational trainings, (b) on content level: a DigiFoF design tool as well as innovative ICT-based teaching and training materials, and industrial cases(c) on a personal level: an increased level of digital skills and competences for FoF-design, leading to better job chances for students and professionals by fostering a more relevant, interdisciplinary and learner-oriented education.
This DigiFoF project objective was to create an organizational platform where HEIs, enterprises, and training institutions come together to develop skill profiles, trainings and teaching concepts as well as materials for different FoF-design aspects. The platform is completed by laboratories equipped with a variety of open source tools, which provide educational and experimental environments, where aspects of the FoF can be taught practically and experimented by the employees of the companies.
DigiFoF consortium is made of: 5 HEIs, 3 training institutions, 3 large enterprises, 4 multiplier organizations & 2 associated partners. The focus was placed on selecting professionals with excellent academic research skills that have extensive experience both on national & international level.Based on OMiLAB4FoF we set an innovation laboratory for digital services in each HEI. The innovation within OMiLABs refers to engineering of new domain-specific modelling methods for Factory of the Future
<< Background >> DigiFoF consortium is made of: 5 HEIs, 3 training institutions, 3 large enterprises, 4 multiplier organizations & 2 associated partners. The focus was placed on selecting professionals with excellent academic research skills that have extensive experience both on national & international level.Based on OMiLAB4FoF we set an innovation laboratory for digital services in each HEI. The innovation within OMiLABs refers to engineering of new domain-specific modelling methods for Factory of the Future << Objectives >> This DigiFoF project objective was to create an organizational platform where HEIs, enterprises, and training institutions come together to develop skill profiles, trainings and teaching concepts as well as materials for different FoF-design aspects. The platform is completed by laboratories equipped with a variety of open source tools, which provide educational and experimental environments, where aspects of the FoF can be taught practically and experimented by the employees of the companies. << Implementation >> Create & use a digital library with different learning materials: case studies, lectures, tutorials, tools & webinarsEnsuring exchanges between academia&industry by lecturing, tutorials & experiments for students in order to apply the scientific results on real-world problems4 HEI set up physical modelling laboratories and 1 HEI a virtual one targeting FoF aspectsDevelop a new modelling method&software tool that integrates FoF characteristicsCreate 30 teaching materials&teacher’s netwowork << Results >> Implementation of 4 physical & one virtual OMiLAB laboratories in Romania, Italy, France, Poland&Finland equipped with FoF tools&functionalities for ICT-based learningAll results obtained within the DigiFoF projecta are available on the project`s website, at the follwing link: https://www.digifof.eu/results and on Erasmus Plus Results Platform at the following link: https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/projects/eplus-project-details/#project/601089-EPP-1-2018-1-RO-EPPKA2-KA