Teaching Smart Production: An Insight into the Learning Factory for Cyber-Physical Production Systems (LVP)☆

Increasing global competition among producing companies necessitates a further specialization and continuous enhancement of products, manufacturing processes and business models. The current advances in these areas are highly influenced by the digitization, which might not only change the work environment within a factory but might also change entire value-added chains. Therefore, producing companies express their demand for learning environments, which address ongoing developments regarding digitization and Industry 4.0.