Learning Concepts for a versatile Production

• Applicants: Professor Dr.-Ing. Eberhard Abele; Professor Dr. Ralf Tenberg
• Subject Area: Production Systems, Operations Management, Quality Management and Factory Planning
• Term: from 2012 to 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 220204719

A fast and effective acquisition of technical production competencies and the ability to adapt and to further develop these competencies on an autonomous level are an important prerequisite for versatile and therefore successful future factories. In this context, it is essential to devise methods of designing effective learning environments that satisfy this aim. This can be achieved by ensuring both an effective and efficient development of competencies, but also by allowing these technical production competencies to be fixed in the organization and thus ultimately stabilized. The existing learning factory at the Technical University Darmstadt can meet the requirements of such a learning environment, though its full potential has to be made accessible and harnessed through sophisticated scientific approaches. Hereby, it is imperative to tap into and substantiate pertinent learning objectives in the sense of competencies so that these can be made available in learning curriculums. To this effect, task- and production-related qualification profiles will be conceived following the action regulation theory. Consequently, specific competencies underlying these qualification profiles will be identified, concretized and finally operationalized in accordance with a specific construct of competencies. The resulting curriculums for engineers and skilled workers will be devolved, tested and methodically modified in the learning factory. In the end, the newly developed curriculums and therefore also the methods of developing learning environments are to be formatively and summatively evaluated in a concluding scientifically based field study.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants