Sebastian Thiede – författare

This book presents peer-reviewed papers from 14th International Conference on Learning Factories (CLF 2024) that took place from April 17–19, 2024, at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. CLF 2024 continued the successful CLF conference series targeting the latest research and development in the field of learning factories. The book is organized into two volumes and covers state-of-the-art research insights towards Learning Factories of the Future including learning factory design, Industry 5.0, digital twinning and VR/AR, 5G/6G in learning factories, AI for manufacturing systems, human-centred work design, human-robot collaboration, sustainability in learning factories, as well as cross-learning factory product/production systems. The book seamlessly integrates theory with real-world practice, empowering learners such as students, qualified engineers, and workers to keep pace with rapidly evolving technologies and methodologies, through enhancing learning factories. It also helps society and industry effectively manage future transitions with addressing current topics around digitalization, sustainability, and lifelong learning in industry.

This book presents peer-reviewed papers from 14th International Conference on Learning Factories (CLF 2024) that took place from April 17–19, 2024, at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. CLF 2024 continued the successful CLF conference series targeting the latest research and development in the field of learning factories. The book is organized into two volumes and covers state-of-the-art research insights towards Learning Factories of the Future including learning factory design, Industry 5.0, digital twinning and VR/AR, 5G/6G in learning factories, AI for manufacturing systems, human-centred work design, human-robot collaboration, sustainability in learning factories, as well as cross-learning factory product/production systems. The book seamlessly integrates theory with real-world practice, empowering learners such as students, qualified engineers, and workers to keep pace with rapidly evolving technologies and methodologies, through enhancing learning factories. It also helps society and industry effectively manage future transitions with addressing current topics around digitalization, sustainability, and lifelong learning in industry.

This edited monograph presents a selection of research contributions on eco-factories of the future. The topical focus lies on cutting-edge solutions from academia and industry that enable and support companies in their efforts towards sustainable manufacturing. The authors provide an overview over recent developments, aiming at a comprehensive understanding of eco- and cost-efficient manufacturing from machine to factory level. The solutions contributed by leading research institutions and companies have been mostly implemented and evaluated in industrial pilot projects across Europe. The methodological approaches cover topics such as factory planning, manufacturing simulation, energy management as well as life cycle evaluation. The target audience comprises industry experts and decision makers as well as researchers in the field of sustainable manufacturing.

Energy consumption is of great interest to manufacturing companies. Beyond considering individual processes and machines, the perspective on process chains and factories as a whole holds major potentials for energy efficiency improvements. To exploit these potentials, dynamic interactions of different processes as well as auxiliary equipment (e.g. compressed air generation) need to be taken into account. In addition, planning and controlling manufacturing systems require  balancing technical, economic and environmental objectives. Therefore, an innovative and comprehensive methodology – with a generic energy flow-oriented manufacturing simulation environment as a core element – is developed and embedded into a step-by-step application cycle. The concept is applied in its entirety to a wide range of case studies such as aluminium die casting, weaving mills, and printed circuit board assembly in order to demonstrate the broad applicability and the benefits that can be achieved.

Die Produktion von Gütern ist das Herz einer wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung und ein wesentliches Element für den Wohlstand in Deutschland. Das Streben nach einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung, steigende Energie- und Ressourcenpreise, globalisierte Beschaffungs- und Absatzmärkte sowie immer anspruchsvollere Umweltauflagen resultieren in Herausforderungen, denen sich insbesondere kleine und mittlere Unternehmen in Deutschland stellen müssen. Ein Weg diesen Herausforderungen zu entgegnen, ist die kontinuierliche Steigerung der Energie- und Ressourceneffizienz in der Produktion. Es gilt dabei, die mit der Produktion verbundenen Umweltemissionen und Kosten zu senken und gleichzeitig die Qualität der Ausgangsprodukte zu halten oder sogar zu verbessern. Um diesen Weg zu beschreiten, stellt dieses Buch die Ergebnisse des Verbundprojekts „Energie- und hilfsstoffoptimierte Produktion (EnHiPro)“ vor.