Current activities at FIR around

Smart Work

Working models for the digitalized company

The design of work and learning processes in an international context is becoming increasingly important with increasing digitisation. The FIR considers these developments by bundling its activities in a new organizational unit. The business development group "Smart Work" deals with the topic "Working and Learning in Industry 4.0" i.e. with the design of teaching and learning processes as well as work processes in the industrial context in order to enable companies and their employees to cope with the change to the working world 4.0.

Based on concepts and methods for the assessment and, in particular, the prognosis of competences required in the future, innovative and practice-oriented teaching and learning concepts are developed together with companies and implemented in practice. The selection and implementation of suitable, needs-based learning solutions goes hand in hand with the design of individualised learning paths for employees. In addition, the subject area also has its own national and international blended-learning further training programme to successfully shape industrial change in the company. Accordingly, the combination of the topics internationalisation and the establishment of work-related learning processes, as in the course "Chief Workplace Innovation Manager" developed within the framework of the BMBF joint project "E-Mas", is a central component of the future FIR strategy.

Please feel free to contact us via the functional e-mail address smart-work@fir.rwth-aachen.de or get in touch with the contact person named in each case.

  • 21.10.20 – 22.10.20: beyondwork 2020
    The conference experience on the working worlds of tomorrow
    Further Information: beyondwork2020.com

Associated
research projects

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The aim of the research project “AKzentE4.0” is the humane introduction and implementation of Industry 4.0 concepts and technologies in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Aachen region. For the sustainable anchoring of results, a “Human Factors Competence Center for Employment in Industrie 4.0” is being established.

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The core objective of the joint project Y-Mas is to create a sustainable and comprehensive training program for Spanish-speaking Latin America in the field of industrial production management for skilled workers and middle and lower management in manufacturing companies. Y-Mas thus compensates for existing weaknesses in regional education and training on this topic and supplements these with content not yet available, for example, around the transformation to Industry 4.0.

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FIR: Projekt LIMo – Logo

The LIMo research project aims to provide knowledge in a demand-oriented manner in the organization and implementation of in-company training. Moreover, it intends to create new learning arrangements that individually promote the learning process and the self-learning competence of the learner, as well as to integrate current mobile learning technologies into the individual's everyday working life.

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GALA's goal is to develop industry-specific tools and models for work design and competence management, especially for SMEs in the Aachen region, and to disseminate them on a sustainable basis. The focus is on four defined key topics: Human-Machine Interaction, Healthy Working, Digital Collaboration, and Agility/Innovation. In order to sustainably anchor the results and make them available, a "Region Aachen Living Lab Initiative" (RALLI) is being established.

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The aim of the research project KI-LIAS is to develop a procedure for acceptance-based application decision-making, development, introduction and use of AI applications in manufacturing companies that promote learning.

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The joint project eLLa 4.0 aims to support leaders at different hierarchical levels in their leadership tasks during digital transformation, and to enable them to design good work in the digitized world. For this purpose, qualification modules are developed for different target groups, summarized in a training offering and, furthermore, new learning worlds for leadership development are being tested.

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The aim of the joint project LidA - Lernen in der digitisierten Arbeitswelt - is to enable employees for the working world of the future and the challenges of digital change in companies in the long term. Within the framework of the joint project, future competence requirements are forecast and prepared in a competence navigator in such a way that individual learning paths can be developed. The individual teaching and learning modules are embedded in a didactic concept tailored to needs and made available on a teaching and learning platform with broad impact.

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