Industry 4.0: introduction to the continuous improvement of an industrial process for Master's students

Pascal Vrignat (1) , D. Delouche (2) , M. Avila (3) , F. Kratz (4)

1 PRISME - Laboratoire pluridisciplinaire de recherche en ingénierie des systèmes, mécanique et énergétique
2 HEI campus Centre
3 MPIDS - Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
4 INSA CVL - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées - Centre Val de Loire

Among the many pedagogical strategies for improving students' motivation, life skills, and know-how, project-based learning is often cited as an example. It is in this context that a challenge entitled "New digital processes for the plant of the future" was launched in 2019 for Master's students learning in the field of "mechatronics". Seven teams formed randomly with last year students of the HEI graduate school of engineering, therefore, they took part in this challenge. The technical issues to be addressed were vast because they had to meet certain needs and services dedicated to issues related to the digital industry or industry 4.0. This paper details the pedagogical strategy that has been adopted, the technical specifications and the planning to be respected. It also proposes some significant results. A measurement tool concerning the efficiency of the method has also been implemented. According to these results, we refine our feedback on the challenge and thus refine our educational policy.

Mots clés: industry 40; Edunet network; Skkynet; project pedagogy; IoT; engineering students

Domaines: Automatique

Pascal Vrignat, D. Delouche, M. Avila, F. Kratz. Industry 4.0: introduction to the continuous improvement of an industrial process for Master's students. 21st IFAC World Congress, Jul 2020, Berlin, Germany. ⟨hal-02907318⟩