The French Factory UnitArts et Métiers part of a European network whose goal is to explore innovative learning programs to meet the current challenges facing industry.
The introduction of new technologies in the manufacturing industry, such as hybrid materials and processes, virtual/augmented reality, reconfigurable automation, and artificial intelligence, is helping to accelerate the development and modernization of the industry, making it more efficient, flexible, and competitive. Consequently, it is also necessary to adapt the teaching and learning of these technologies in order to better prepare those involved in the manufacturing industry for this transformation and, in particular, for the current context of open innovation and science.
Promoting collaboration between businesses, higher education and research institutions to set up advanced industry-focused learning programs, the M-NEST-I project aims to put in place the operational conditions that will help organizations and individual users explore, experiment, and independently and intuitively acquire the skills and know-how to work with new manufacturing technologies in a wide variety of production and innovation scenarios.
In France, the Factory Unit of the M-NEST network will be implemented and tested at the Arts et Métiers campuses Arts et Métiers Metz and Châlons-Sur-Saône.
"The Factory Unit M-NEST-I France is part of the European M-NEST network and will support the training of students, teachers, researchers, and industry professionals by providing the learning tools needed to build the European industrial community of tomorrow," says Cláudio Santos, researcher at INEGI and project coordinator.
The Factory Unit M-NEST-I France is part of the European M-NEST network and will support the training of students, teachers, researchers, and industry professionals by providing the learning tools needed to build the European industrial community of tomorrow.
The European M-NEST network will provide a wide range of training activities focused on the most advanced processing and production technologies, and will support university education, advanced training, R&D, technology transfer, and dissemination to different audiences and training spaces (from classrooms to factory workshops). This network will also provide access (both virtually and in person) to high-quality, technology-specific teaching materials, helping to make the teaching of value-added manufacturing technologies a stimulating experience for a wider audience.
"M-NEST-I will serve as a pilot project for the network's activities. At this stage, trainees will be selected by the project partners, but the ultimate goal is to ensure that more people and businesses benefit from innovative learning programs as soon as possible," explained Tudor Balan, senior lecturer at Arts et Métiers and head of Factory Unit France.
This project is funded byEIT-Manufacturing and brings together INEGI, INESCTEC, and FEUP (Portugal), Arts et Métiers France),Aalto University (Finland), and SUPSI - University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland.
