In the context of metal additive manufacturing, simulation plays a central role in designing processes specifically to meet requirements and ensuring component quality at an early stage. Using your own demonstrator component, you will digitally prepare the manufacturing process, carry out the production in practice, and analyze the relevant processes at the micro, meso, and macro levels. This will give you practical insight into available simulation solutions, numerical solvers, and necessary calibration methods, enabling you to thoroughly evaluate their potential applications for process optimization within your own production environment.

Contact person: Felix Riegger | Duration: 2 Days | In person at iwb

In addition to our Lean training courses at the Smart Production Lab, we offer customized Lean workshops—tailored to your specific needs. Whether held at our facility, online, or directly at your company, our experienced trainers will design the content to meet your requirements.

Choose between:

• Basics: Introduction to Lean Principles
• Advanced: Building on Existing Knowledge
• Deep Dives: In-depth exploration of specific topics
• Practical Workshops: Working on real-world use cases from your daily business operations

We are happy to provide you with a customized quote.

Contact person: Lasse Streibel | Dauer: custom | In person in the Smart Production Lab, online or at your company

In this training course, you will gain in-depth knowledge of battery production through the direct integration of theory and practice. For each individual process step, you will receive a solid theoretical foundation that is immediately put into practice on the pilot line equipment. The goal is for each participant to manufacture their own battery cell, including a final quality inspection. The program is fully flexible: the content can be customized so that, if desired, only specific parts of the process chain are carried out in the lab.

Contact person: Lovis Wach | Duration: 5 Days | In person at iwb

Upon completion of the module, you will have a solid understanding of additive manufacturing and its potential applications. You will learn to design components specifically for additive processes, take process-specific limitations into account, and assess the potential and limitations of different technologies. These skills are developed using desktop 3D printers. Building on this foundation, you will be able to identify suitable use cases, evaluate them critically, and perform initial economic assessments for the use of additive manufacturing in an industrial context. The knowledge gained will then be applied to industrial metal additive manufacturing systems and tested in a real-world laboratory environment.

Contact person: Felix Riegger | Duration: 5 Days | In person at iwb

In this training course, you will gain in-depth knowledge of modern joining processes, with a particular focus on laser beam welding and friction stir welding. You will learn how these innovative welding techniques are applied and what technological characteristics distinguish them. Through hands-on exercises, you will engage intensively with the various welding processes and learn how selected process parameters influence the quality of the weld and what cause-and-effect relationships exist. You will work directly on the institute’s own equipment and perform the welding processes independently. This will enable you to immediately apply the knowledge gained in a practical setting.

Contact persons: Jannik Hüllemann and Fabian Vieltorf | Duration: 3 Days | In person at iwb

The training course on human-centered production offers a practical introduction to designing work environments based on the principles of Industry 5.0.

The goal is to raise awareness among companies about the importance of social sustainability and to empower them to integrate human-centered approaches into their production processes. In the learning factory, participants have the opportunity to directly apply the content covered and test the “Design for Social” methodology. This provides them with deep insight into the potential of human-centered production and enables them to implement it effectively within their own companies.

The training covers the following key topics:

• Fundamentals of social sustainability in production
• Social life cycle assessment (S-LCA)
• “Design for Social” methodology
• Integration of human-centered approaches into existing processes

Contact person: Maximilian Lechner | Duration: 2 Days | In person at iwb

Take advantage of our comprehensive training offerings at the Smart Production Lab. Choose from modules on lean manufacturing, digitalization, robotics, and the circular economy—either individually or in custom combinations. In addition, our state-of-the-art facilities are available for in-house events, workshops, and training sessions. Experience hands-on training in a realistic production environment.

Use the Learning Factory as a testing ground and showcase for your technologies. Test your solutions in a controlled yet realistic factory environment and present them to potential customers at training sessions and events. You can find our current partners here.

Gain valuable hands-on experience at one of Germany’s leading learning factories. Through various university internships, such as the Lean Production Learning Factory or the Industrial Robotics Internship, you’ll learn about modern production methods and apply them directly.

As a member of the International Association of Learning Factories (IALF), we are continuously developing our learning factory in line with the latest research. We are actively involved in international working groups such as “Sustainability and Circular Economy in Learning Factories” and “Learning Factories World Wide.” Much of our research is tested in the learning factory, and numerous academic publications on the learning factory provide insights into our research.