Learning Factories Concepts, Guidelines, Best-Practice Examples
This book presents the state of the art of learning factories. It outlines the motivations, historic background, and the didactic foundations of learning factories. Definitions of the term learning factory and a corresponding morphological model are provi
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Learning Factories Concepts, Guidelines, Best-Practice Examples
Learning Factories
Eberhard Abele Joachim Metternich Michael Tisch •
Learning Factories Concepts, Guidelines, Best-Practice Examples
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Eberhard Abele Institute of Production Management, Technology and Machine Tools Technical University of Darmstadt Darmstadt, Germany
Michael Tisch Institute of Production Management, Technology and Machine Tools Technical University of Darmstadt Darmstadt, Germany
Joachim Metternich Institute of Production Management, Technology and Machine Tools Technical University of Darmstadt Darmstadt, Germany
ISBN 978-3-319-92260-7 ISBN 978-3-319-92261-4 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92261-4
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Preface
Today’s Major Educational Challenges in the World Economic growth and global welfare are challenged by a lack of well educated and suitably qualified workforce. The three major challenges encountered are: • Insufficient availability of skilled and qualified workforces and engineers, • A mismatch between qualification of the available workforce and the changes in industrial demands, • Declining awareness of the importance of effective technical education over all hierarchical levels. Production-related competencies and skills are and will remain an important compound of countries’ economic development and growth as well as industries’ long-term competitiveness. Good qualifications are also the decisive factor for prosperity and advancement on a personal level. Solutions must be quickly found for approaching the mismatch of institutional qualification programs and ac
