The process learning factory CiP forms a 500m² training environment in a real production environment. All areas of industrial production are addressed.
- Real environment
- 500 m² area
- 2 machining lines with machine tools
- 2 assembly lines
- Cleaning and QA shop floor management
- Learning cells
- And indirect area (order processing)
- Real products: Pneumatic cylinder (complete value stream including order processing)
- Product of the CiP
- High volume production of a pneumatic compact cylinder
- Illustration of the complete value stream with smachining, assembly
The process learning factory CiP is an innovative training and further education centre in which the most important methods for the design of efficient production processes have been taught since May 2007.
Since then, more than 4,000 students and more than 2,000 employees have received training from industrial companies. The practice-oriented training courses are based on the entire value chain of a company, which begins with the incoming goods of the raw material and extends to the dispatch process of the finished goods. In addition to the operation and further development of the process learning factory, the research group deals with a wide range of research issues in the context of lean production. The topic of digitization of production processes is becoming increasingly important and various Industry 4.0 use cases have already been implemented in the process learning factory. Since March 2016, the process learning factory CiP has formed the core of Mittelstand 4.
In addition, the research group supports local companies in their daily challenges. Typical industrial projects are the supervision of improvement projects in pilot areas of assembly, machining or intralogistics, on-site training on selected topics or the coaching of employees, such as the introduction of shop floor management.