MG2038 Digital Factories 6.0 credits

Lecture with introduction to digital factories:

-     What is a digital factory and why is it needed?

-     Relations between digital and real factories.

-     An example of a digital factory with its software for discrete production.

Guest lectures from industry about use and benefits of digital factories

Lectures about and exercises and assignments in information modelling, databases and information standards

Computer exercises in software used for development of and data handling in digital factories

Project about a concrete application of a digital factory

After passing the course, the student will be able to:

1. explain what is meant by digital factories and their relation to real factories
2. use selected IT tools as part of a digital factory for production development
3. use information modelling to describe and specify information and information flows in a digital factory
4. analyse and explain in own words how information can be handled and coordinated between different IT systems in a digital  factory
5. adapt and evaluate the information model of a digital factory to changed prerequisites and in own words describe benefits and drawbacks of different solutions
6. propose and motivate how an information architecture should be designed to be able to combine development information with large amounts of data from the production process

Students of a master programme at KTH who have taken the courses:

MG2028/MG2128 CAD and other IT Tools in Industrial Processes
MG2029 Production Engineering - Planning and Control
MG2130 Modelling and Simulation of Industrial Processes

or the equivalent

Most of the lab exercises and homework assignments require software which is only available in our own computer labs

Some software can however be downloaded to private Windows computers

Can be downloaded from Canvas by reguistered course participants

If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.

• LAB3 - Computer labs and exercises, 1.5 credits, grading scale: P, F
• PRO3 - Project, 2.5 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
• TEN3 - Written exam, 2.0 credits, grading scale: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F

Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.

The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.

Lars Wingård

• All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
• In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
• In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.