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| 1 | LEAD Factory | It focuses on lean, energy efficiency, agility, and digitalization and deals with production-relevant process. | [215–220] |
| 2 | Schumpeter Laboratory for Innovation (SLFI) | It is an academic makerspace with the focus on product and service development. | [215] |
| 3 | Tiphys project | It aims to build an open-networked platform for learning of industry 4.0 themes. | [221] |
| 4 | SEPT Learning Factory | W Booth School of Engineering Practice and Technology (SEPT) is an educational unit in the faculty of engineering at McMaster University focusing at developing talents for a workforce that has industry 4.0 foundational education and skills. | [203, 222–224] |
| 5 | ELLI project | Excellent Teaching and Learning in Engineering Science (ELLI) aims to develop, introduce, and evaluate several kinds of remote and virtual laboratories into higher engineering education. | [115] |
| 6 | Tampere RoboLab | A new learning concept and environment focusing on robotics formal and nonformal education. | [225] |
| 7 | Virtual FMS engineering education environment | It focuses on planning, operation, and analysis of flexible manufacturing systems (FMS). The aim is to allow the students to achieve the intended learning outcomes mostly with learning by doing. | [226] |
| 8 | Automated class room | This is an industrial cyber-physical system (ICPS) demonstration platform. It is used as a practical testbed, where students from different departments can learn together on how to implement the industry 4.0 concept and technologies. | [227] |
| 9 | Industrie 4.0 learning factory | It aims to support “made in China 2025” strategy with necessary qualification of employees in Chinese production companies. | [228] |
| 10 | Training Factory Stator Production | It aims at providing small- and medium-sized companies, particularly those affected by change, with the opportunity to train their employees. | [229] |
| 11 | MTA SZAKI learning factory | It aims at providing infrastructure, learning content, and opportunities for future production engineers, with a strong emphasis on automation and human-robot collaboration. | [230] |
| 12 | Chair of production system (LPS) | It aims at teaching industry 4.0 requirements in application and development. | [231, 232] |
| 13 | LogCentre learning factory | It aims at availing a low-cost environment for German Kazakh University in Almaty, Kazakhstan, to learn how state-of-the-art concepts and technologies are applied in logistics systems, e.g., RFID. | [233] |
| 14 | Learning Factory advanced Industrial Engineering (LF aIE) | LF aIE is a model factory at the Institute of Industrial Manufacturing and Management (IFF) of University of Stuttgart designed for training on methods of production optimization. | [201, 234] |
| 15 | AAU Smart Production Lab | This is the Aalborg University (AAU) learning factory. It has implemented industry 4.0 nine core technologies including collaborative robots, virtual environments, horizontal and vertical system integration, industrial Internet of Things, cyber security, use of cloud service, additive manufacturing, and big data and analytics for training purposes. | [235] |
| 16 | TU Wien Pilot Factory Industry 4.0 (TUPF) | It is a pilot, demonstration, and learning factory, aiming to provide companies a fundamental insight into industry 4.0 techniques, applications, and associated challenges through exemplary implementation of a digitized production environment as well as subsequent research, workshops, and presentation. | [236] |
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