Creation of a Learning Factory for Cyber Physical Production Systems

The development of Cyber Physical Production Systems (CPPS) is currently the dominant research topic in production and automation engineering. Therefore the underlying objective of this paper is to upgrade an existing centralized production laboratory to a CPPS learning factory. Key aspects of CPPS are interconnection on system level and with superordinate structures. This implementation, the comparison with state of the art production control systems and the utilization in university seminars are subjects of the paper. For example the enhancement enables the realization of manufacturing various products at the same time, mass customization aspects and automatic production of new products.