André Ullrich also emphasises the versatility, but also the special value that arises from the fact that the Learning Factory combines virtual simulation and real working environment - with conveyor belt and workpieces, as well as state-of-the-art sensors, interfaces, input and output elements. "In fact, there are not many people in the Berlin-Potsdam area who can do something like this: demonstrate the possibilities, changes and challenges of Industry 4.0 in a variable simulation environment - and do it for hands-on experience," says the IG Metall education officer. Perfect for the workshop Julian Wenz had in mind. Over the years, Gronau and his team have developed the centre into a universal interactive learning factory and an Industry 4.0 laboratory. Norbert Gronau developed the facility as a virtual factory in which chocolate or yoghurt production could be simulated and tested with just a few changes. In 2010, the business information scientist Prof. Here, just a stone's throw away from the historic Truman Villa, where the US President stayed during the Potsdam Conference in 1945, is the Industry 4.0 Research and Application Centre. Since 2016, seminars and workshops on digitalisation have been held at the IG Metall training centre in Berlin - and, on one day, in Potsdam-Babelsberg. So it was clear to us that we needed a practical application workshop for this". And even fewer people were able to explain how it would affect companies in our industry. "There were many opinions on it, but hardly any experience. "Five or six years ago, there was a relatively abstract debate on Industry 4.0," recalls Julian Wenz, who organises and conducts training courses for works councils at IG Metall. Here, in the versatile simulation environment of the cyberphysical model factory, works councils can test and experience how workplaces, processes and spaces are changing as a result of digitalisation. In order not to passively watch this leap in development, but to actively participate in developing the new working world, IG Metall is cooperating with the Industry 4.0 Research and Application Centre at the University of Potsdam. Some have been revolutionised, including industry, whose digitised evolutionary stage is now known as "Industry 4.0". Over the years, digitalisation has found its way into almost all areas of work.
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