To qualify technical vocational students as future skilled workers in authentic and interconnected working environments, technical vocational schools installed so called Learning Factories 4.0. Especially students in technical vocational education and training will be confronted by the future requirements and impacts on their work (Delcker and Ifenthaler 2021 Gebhardt et al. It is necessary to prepare technical vocational students with the competencies needed to cope with the challenges of Industry 4.0 (Gebhardt et al. These changes also affect the dual vocational and education training system in Germany. Current studies focusing on Industry 4.0 indicate that it will induce changes in occupational structures and work activities as well as additional requirements for employees (Groß et al. This is based on the real-time data exchange between customers, employees, objects and production via cyber-physical systems (Lee et al. Industry 4.0 is the vision of a horizontally and vertically interconnected digitization of entire industrial value chains (Stecken et al. The findings of this study can help educators to further develop learning environments with support from Learning Factories 4.0 as well as preparing their learners for the demanding competencies of Industry 4.0. However, the study could not identify a positive development of multidisciplinary digital competencies. Findings indicate the benefits of integrating Learning Factories 4.0 for developing subject-related competencies in technical vocational schools. Three subsequent competence tests with N = 63 technical vocational students were conducted. Hence this research focusses on subject-related technical and multidisciplinary digital competencies of technical vocational students change due to different levels of Learning Factory 4.0 interaction over time. Still, research is scarce with regard to the development of competencies supported through Learning Factories 4.0 in technical vocational schools. The implementation of those interconnected Learning Factories 4.0 at technical vocational schools may promote the development of subject-related technical competencies as well as multidisciplinary digital competencies. On top of this you will get some insights into manufacturing processes in order to find out, how you can influence the environmental impact in production through your design decisions.Learning Factories 4.0 are thought to prepare vocational students for the challenges of Industry 4.0. This means that you will use effective ecodesign methods and practices to develop a meaningful product or service for users, while minimizing its environmental footprint and developing a sustainable circular economy business model for it. You will practice circular system thinking in order to solve a complex ecodesign challenge in a multi-disciplinary team. Our training is based on learning by doing.
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In the Learning Factory participants go through a human-centered eco-design process learning how to use eco-design tools and methods in order to minimize the environmental impacts of products and services over their life cycle and maximize their benefit for the business, the user, the network-partners and the society. Practitioners and teachers from design, engineering and business can learn how to eco-design circular systems in the Learning Factory Ecodesign.
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Learning Factory: how to eco-design circular systemsīridge the gap between environmental science, design thinking and business reality – learn as professional designers, engineers or lecturers how to eco-design circular systems.
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