The Laboratory for Industrial Engineering and the Laboratory for measuring forms, dimensions and positions have the following equipment used for teaching and scientific research:
Research on modern organizational principles of “Lean, Green and Digital management”, and case studies from companies with which there is already cooperation will continue.
Also, the development and integration of product configurators into the ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system will continue, so that the customer defines his product via the Web interface, and receives a whole range of relevant information about the product, delivery time, delivery and installation, as feedback. The configurator should be integrated in the system for managing and monitoring the gearboxes assembly.
One of the most important goals is the further development of the Learning Factory at the FESB, modeled similar to the leading laboratories in Europe, and adapted to regional needs. The aim is to provide students at the Faculty an insight into the real sector, as well as to enable them to gain practical experience on processes and work in the sector. Also, one of the goals is the possibility of attracting employees from the real sector for training to apply the principles of “Lean, Green and Digital management” and concepts related to the new industrial platform – Industry 4.0/5.0.
One of the key elements of the “Learning Factory” is the Intelligent Assembly Line, which, in addition to providing the opportunity to educate students in the field of Lean management, will also serve to demonstrate the concept of Industry 4.0/5.0. Elements that make this possible are an robot arm, an industrial RFID production monitoring system, and specially developed low-cost sensor systems for production and warehouse monitoring. It is planned to automate the bottleneck process on the gearbox assembly line with electromechanical elements.
Throughout the next period, the possibilities and advantages of using digital twins as one of the important segments of Industry 4.0/5.0 will be researched. An environment will be developed for simple modeling and simulation of assembly processes (using Tecnomatix software), rapid creation of digital twins and their testing using real assembly processes (using available IoT platforms such as the Arduino platform, sensors, actuators, automatically guided vehicles, robots and other laboratory equipment). The aforementioned research will also focus on optimization of modeled assembly processes, with the aim of integrating newly developed algorithms into digital twins.
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