Center for industrial Productivity (CiP), Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
Operational Status
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Joachim Metternich
Antonio Kreß
- 16 FTEs Research Staff
- 1 FTE Technician
- 1 FTE Secretary
- 5,5 FTE Student Assistants
- More than 100 days of training courses
- More than 1500 employees educated, thereof 400 management;
- More than 500 Students trainedD
Latest developments
- New competence center for Industrie 4.0 for SMEs
- Implementation of a new Lean 4.0 curriculum
- Implementation of an automated guided vehicle
- Implementation of smart maintenance on a sawing machine
- Implementation of a Milkrun 4.0
- Manufacturing of a customer-individualized product
Topics for research and training
- 7 research projects with learning factories involved in progress:
- Personalized learning scenarios in adaptive virtual learning factories
- Configuration of a learning factory for a railway infrastructure company
- Industrie 4.0 learning factory modules for cloud manufacturing, worker assistance, and traceability
- Value stream simulation
- Agile resource-efficient production network (https://www.arepron.com/)
- Digital shopfloor management
- Competence Center 4.0 Darmstadt (https://kompetenzzentrum-darmstadt.digital/de)
- Enhanced research focus: Lean 4.0
