Project on Industry 4.0 Education (Diku/HK-dir Eurasia program 2017-2022)

The starting point of these wiki-pages - these are based on some shared course content, plans for course development and a few project activities including contributions from students.

Project description and some results to be shared under People Planet Profits (Projects)

Sharing through courses and learning management systems....

....including content and examples of using open innovation and open standards like ArchiMate to communicate goals, flows and patterns for re-use, to be used elsewhere. 

From the LinkedIn group ArchiMate, https://www.linkedin.com/groups/50758/

...and Research Projects and Education Workshops with Industry....

At NTNU, and in most higher educations - and not only at technology-oriented universities - students are often supported and encouraged to find real-world problems, usually connected to on-going research work with stakeholders in industry or enterprises. At NTNU, most project reports, open papers and thesis work are published through NTNU Open/NVA-SIKT (National Repository), and searchable using relevant names - company or supervisor, or themes (browse by category, department etc).  

Visits to - and case-work for local industry like Nammo at Raufoss, and other places helps us connect through common problems/challenges. How can students contribute to solving real problems in the production, while learning "Problem Solving Strategies"? It's possible to solve problems (or at least contribute to more knowledge) through both real-time project work, and through virtual collaboration- and by inspiring students and researchers to work on real-world challenges. 

Cases have been used for workshops and in the learning factory-setting. (more updates, to follow).

Case for inspiration: Hybrid rockets for space at Nammo: The Nucleus-project and technology demonstrators is a very good story available online (3-part story on Youtube). With background told at Nammo's website:

https://www.nammo.com/story/going-hybrid-in-space/

Other themes relevant for smart manufacturing, include digital manufacturing, learning factories and finding new materials for sustainable composites.... or developing better (digital) knowledge based tools for additive manufacturing.... life-cycle analysis of products and processes or implementing IoT-devices for "measuring energy-use everywhere, allways".

What problem can you think of?

Student-projects with focus on team-working: Experts in Teamwork

Individual project work is still practiced as a requirement for many courses and - and is still the norm for conducting thesis work, in particular for a master thesis or PhD-thesis. Though the work on a thesis may be done in collaboration with ongoing research work in the industry or in e.g. public-private joint enterprises- much work is still individual and personal in practice. How to learn to work better in teams has been the focus at NTNU for many years....   

NTNU and the ENHANCE university network is working to make this course international through a hybrid digital/physical course.

In 2023, NTNU is organizing an international hybrid version of the course Experts in Teamwork (EiT, link) with students from Spain, Poland and Germany. Through hybrid teaching, the students (18) will participate in the same real-time teaching sessions but from different locations. 

More information on relevant EiT-villages/themes and previous work outcomes may be found through the main EiT-pages below, while 2 examples of villages related to sustainable manufacturing at NTNU Gjøvik are re-shared here: 

Action for Sustainable Development (old, see other villages also)

Grønn innovasjon i praksis (new, current - in Norwegian)

I denne landsbyen vil du utforske hvordan teknologi og innovasjon kan bidra til framtidige løsninger. Generativ kunstig intelligens (GKI) er et selvfølgelig arbeidsverktøy. Gjennom tverrfaglig samarbeid skal vi se på alt fra smarte byer og digitalisering til nye energisystemer og sirkulære løsninger. Målet er ikke bare å forstå utfordringene, men å utvikle ideer som kan bli en del av framtiden. (TØL4025)

Helping manufacturing businesses in their digitalisation journey – safe, sustainable and social (old)

What actions can businesses in manufacturing take to start their journey in digitalisation? Actions that are innovative, safe, social and sustainable. (IDS4009)

More info at:

https://www.ntnu.edu/eit

And the wiki-pages:

https://i.ntnu.no/wiki/-/wiki/English/Experts+in+Teamwork

Student-projects (extra-curricular) at NTNU

Student projects at NTNU like Propulse NTNU, Revolve NTNU , Ascend NTNU and Orbit NTNU  lets students join forces - and inspire each other to work on ambitious goals while developing their creative talent, professional team-working skills and problem-solving strategies. Such projects are led by hard-working students from multiple- and different studies and class levels. See websites for more info.

EU-projects, like ZEvRA

From the project web-page, you get an overview of this ongoing collaboration in Europe to promote the industrial eco-system around electric vehicles, including the materials used. Background and motivation from the web-page "about the ZEvRA project":

"....it is expected that electric vehicles (EVs) will contribute to 75% of new cars registered in Europe by 2030, backed by major markets’ internal combustion car phase-out regulations. At the same time, the manufacturing of EVs produces 80% higher CO2e emission compared to ICE cars. EV production is the main emitting phase in the life cycle, simultaneously the one with the highest reduction potential. Design for Circularity (DfC) strategies have arisen and across the entire value chain technologies are being developed to decrease the environmental impact of EV manufacturing. However, the heterogeneity of the value chain between different designs of EV models causes ambiguous Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) results, which are often not translatable between cases. Also, it is often difficult to determine the most effective DfC strategy due to the lack of a widely accepted methodology that offers ready-to-use solutions. Furthermore, IPR-related issues between OEMs and manufacturers are impeding the interchangeability of technologies and knowledge.

ZEvRA will enable the collaboration of five big OEMs, supported by top European universities and key players from all facets of the value chain (and three 2ZERO partnership members) and will demonstrate a harmonized circularity methodology that allows for interchangeability and replicability throughout Europe. The methodology and manufacturing technologies will be supported by digital tools and validated on a full circular car, integrating 8 prototype components covering 84% of the total automotive material mix.

ZEvRA’s innovations aim to improve zero emission approaches in the life cycle and value chain of at least 59% of European EVs by 2035. The Škoda Enyaq will be used as a baseline for the development of new technologies in this project."

From our side at NTNU and Benteler in Norway we find connected background on some of the digital tools and training from previous projects such as the DAT4.zero project, with a focus on quality assurance and "zero defect manufacturing", that are popular topics in Industry 4.0 projects in the industry.

https://dat4zero.eu/what-is-industry-4-0/

https://dat4zero.eu/training/

KPNs - Research, and IPNs and small scale innovation projects with industry and other stakeholders

KPN Example: CPS Plant Perspective project (link to RCN project info page)

The project included work on dissemination and learning in a Norwegian industry context, and has produced a "textbook" called "Industri 4.0 (Digitalisering av prosesser i produksjon)" intended for a Norwegian audience - and learners/readers at all levels in the industry. The book can be purchased in various outlets, including from the publisher: Fagbokforlaget in the link (press picture below)

(to be updated...and likely moved to a sub-page with other learning material/books)

INTPART Networking project example: "MAVIS" project (RCN project info-page) 

Project name: "Industry 4.0 and Management of Variations In a Sustainable manufactured product life cycle"= "MAVIS"

Popular Science Description

The main goal for MAVIS is to consolidate international collaboration and partnership in between the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and centre for Research based innovation SFI Manufacturing in Norway and partners in Germany and France

(to be updated....)

SFI Manufacturing, SFI CELECT and other Large Innovation projects:

In large innovation projects with PhD-students, we contribute where we can, including collaboration and student-supervision mostly for PhD-candidates and a few connected master-students (MSUMA and other study programs at NTNU).

The most important large project for industry-academic co-innovation and project work in our area was through the SFI Manufacturing, led by SINTEF- until 2023. A white paper detailing the motivation for the project- and outlining a joint view on the outlook and trends facing the industry involved was released in February 2022, but with a broken URL after the project webpages were terminated. However, many published reports and papers are available through e.g. the NVA SIKT repository, links below. The white paper (non-link below, broken URL) was written as a part of the Centre for research-based innovation on Manufacturing (SFI Manufacturing) within the research area on Sustainable and Innovative Organizations (RA3), while the same research area also supported the PhD thesis by Henrik Brynthe Lund from 2020- which is a very useful text to document and discuss the evolution of the industry clusters in Raufoss and Kongsberg, and stakeholders. The textbook on Digital transformation from 2024 covers many of the technical topics including robotics.

https://www.sfimanufacturing.no/white-paper-on-manufacturing-trends.html (old)

(2020). PhD Thesis, Henrik Brynthe Lund, "Navigating emerging technologies and knowledge demands. System perspectives on knowledge development in Norwegian manufacturing industry." https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2654548

(2024). Digitalization and sustainable manufacturing: Twin transition in Norway. Routledge. https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3904864