Due to changes in the manufacturing industry, the demand for more flexibility and agility of companies is constantly increasing. Digital transformation enables the management of risks in complex value chains and the fulfillment of customer requirements.
As a Digital Transformation Expert, you will learn the right methods and tools to implement digital transformation in your company. This includes methods for identifying potentials through the use of digital technologies, tools for evaluating and systematically implementing digitalization measures, and knowledge of tried-and-tested solutions in practice.
The course includes lectures from industry and science as well as workshops, networking and evening events in Aachen, where you can discuss and engage with our speakers and the participants informally to gather new impulses and different experiences.
Further information on the content, course program and speakers can also be found in our brochure.
Course content:
German Course 2023
Modul 1: 26. - 28. April
Modul 2: 24. - 26 May
English Course 2023
Modules 1&2: 16. - 20. October
9:00 - 9:30
Introduction & Welcome
9:30 - 11:00
Industrie 4.0: Why it matters
11:15 - 12:15
Live tour: Demonstration Factory Aachen
12:15 - 13:15
Lunch break
13:15 - 14:45
Business-Digitalization-Alignment I/II: Digitalization strategy and Business impact
15:15 - 16:30
Business-Digitalization-Alignment II/II: Target system of the digital transformation
16:30 - 18:00
Patterns of digitization (Digital Services, Platforms, …) in practice
From 18:30
Evening Event with keynote speech
8:30 - 10:30
Starting the Digital Transformation
10:45 - 12:15
Workshop:i4.0MC Platform & Potentials: Assessment of the Status Quo
12:15 - 13:15
Lunch break
13:15 - 14:30
Workshop:i4.0MC Platform & Potentials: Roadmap conception
15:00 - 16:15
Expert lecture: Digital Transformation at Mars
16:30 - 18:00
Expert lecture:Digitization in the SMS Group: leveraging synergies in Group structures
8:30 - 10:00
Workshop: Cloud-Transformation
10:15 - 11:00
Focus session: Cloud transformation: The digitally networked enterprise
11:15 - 12:15
Focus session: Industrial IoT platforms: The digitally connected shop floor
12:15 - 13:15
Lunch Break
13:15 - 14:15
Focus session: Industrial Cyber-Security: Protecting Digital Infrastructures
14:30 - 15:30
Quantifying potential: Determining added value in digitalization measures
15:30 - 16:30
Workshop: Quantifying potentials
16:30 - 17:30
Success factor usability
From 18:30
Evening event
8:30 - 9:45
Focus session: AI applications in production
10:00 - 11:00
Focus session: Process Mining in Production
11:00 - 12:15
Workshop: Process Mining in the application
12:15 - 13:15
Lunch Break
13:15 - 14:00
Establish digitalization teams: Coordinate Industrie 4.0 centrally
14:00 - 14:45
Agile project management
15:00 - 16:00
Expert lecture: Change management in digital projects
16:15 - 17:15
Expert lecture: Process documentation along the supply chain
17:30 - 18:30
Expert Lecture: New Work - How modern organizations operate
8:30 - 10:30
Exam
10:45 - 12:30
Workshop: IoT via Drag-and-drop: The Internet of Things without programming
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:00
Certificate awarding and graduation
Bookings will be considered in the order of their submission. With the registration you accept our conditions of participation. Please do not pay the attendance fee before receiving your invoice.
The Industrie 4.0 Maturity Center was founded in 2017 as a spin-off of the RWTH Aachen and supports manufacturing companies in their digital transformation. The office on the RWTH Aachen Campus creates close contact to current research as well as access to the accumulated expertise of the research clusters. Due to the application of the Industrie 4.0 Maturity Index in a variety of customer projects, the Industrie 4.0 Maturity Center can refer to a comprehensive experience in the field of digital transformation.
The FIR is a non-profit, cross-industry research and training institution at RWTH Aachen University in the field of business organization, information logistics and corporate IT with the aim of creating the organisational foundations for the digitally networked industrial company of the future. The institute accompanies companies, does research, qualifies and teaches in the areas of service management, business transformation, information management and production management.