The digitalization of a factory is a decisive prerequisite for the future of Switzerland as a manufacturing location. Students should become familiar with concepts and methods for designing an efficient, intelligent, digital factory of the future. Students will be familiar with the relevance of data and the handling of data for the factory of the future so that they can make the right decisions for the innovation process. They will also learn to evaluate and apply the concepts in a goal-oriented manner in order to be able to make an important contribution to the transformation of an industrial company today.
open book exam
Professional competence:
Students will be able to:
Self-competence
Social skills
Create a basic understanding of the topic of smart factory, know and evaluate concepts and approaches. Personal experience in the OST smart factory (digital and physical learning environment).
Experience, apply and evaluate your own implementation of data acquisition and vertical communication from the sensor to the cloud using a simple example in the factory. In addition, the methods of machine learning and discrete event simulation for optimization are deepened in order to understand a digital factory and to help shape it as a development manager.
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