Approaches of the developmental tendency through a (r)evolutionary industrial change and its human centering and didactic changes in teaching.
Authors
Norman Günther, Bárbara Moraes, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Reiff-Stephan
Abstract
Smart Factories, which are networked and digitalized, flexible, economical and resource-efficient
and produce the smallest quantities, correspond to the vision of Industry 4.0. In these
factories the non-human entities act independently and are active elements of the production
process. Nevertheless, the human being with his complex abilities and competences remains a
relevant factor for the realization of this vision.
Despite the expectations of the time, the human being has never really come into focus. Digitization
aspects such as networking, big data, cloud traditionally describe the focus. In the course of this
adaptively growing (r)evolutionary history, however, the key to the fifth industrial revolution has been
consolidated: artificial intelligence. On the basis of the fourth revolution, computing systems
(quantum computers) are being developed, which will lay the foundations for the coming history.
The article deals with the approaches of the developmental tendency through a (r)evolutionary
industrial change and its human centering and with the didactic changes in teaching that go along
with it. By parallelizing the two approaches, a short overview of the tendencies and their effects will
be given.
Important drivers are the computing power that has emerged in recent years and the tools that have
been made possible by it, such as digital twins, data-driven models, collaborative robots (cobots)
and artificial intelligence (AI). How can these be transferred to the requirements of competence
development and create new options for teaching?
