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 2024
Modul 1: 17. - 19. April
Modul 2: 27. - 29. May
English Course 2023
Modules 1&2: 16. - 20. October
English Course 2024
Modules 1&2: 07. - 11. October
9:00 - 9:30
Introduction & Welcome
9:30 - 11:00
Industrie 4.0: Why it matters
11:15 - 12:15
Workshop Smart production & Live tour at Demonstration Factory Aachen
12:15 - 13:15
Lunch break
13:15 - 14:45
Business-Digitalization-Alignment I/II: Digitalization strategy and Business impact
14:45 - 15:15
Discussion
15:15 - 16:30
Business-Digitalization-Alignment II/II: Target system of the digital transformation
16:45 - 18:00
Expert Lecture: Digital Transformation at Renolit
From 19:30
Evening Event
8:30 - 10:15
Shaping the Digital Transformation: The Industrie 4.0 Maturity Index
10:30 - 12:15
Workshop: i4.0MC Platform & Potentials - Evaluation of the Status Quo
12:15 - 13:15
Lunch break
13:15 - 14:30
Expert lecture: Schaeffler Lifetime Solutions - digital services pioneers
14:45 - 15:45
Focus Session: IT Compliance / IT Governance
16:00 - 17:30
Expert lecture: Digital Transformation at Sibelco
8:30 - 9:30
Focus SessionCyber Security & Digital Resilience: Protecting Digital Infrastructures
9:45 - 11:15
Expert lecture: Process Mining in production
11:15 - 12:30
Focus Session: Industrial IoT-Platforms - The digitally connected shopfloor
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:00
Focus session: AI applications in production
15:15 - 16:15
Focus Session: Low Code/No Code platforms
16:30 - 18:00
Expert Lecture: Digital Transformation at Saint-Gobain
From 19:30
Evening event
8:30 - 09:45
Impulse lecture incl. workshop: Digital Sovereignty
10:00 - 11:00
Quantifying potential: Value contribution of digitization measures
11:15 - 12:15
Expert lecture
12:15 - 13:15
Lunch Break
13:15 - 14:15
Establish digitalization teams: Centralize Industry 4.0 coordination
14:30 - 15:30
New Work: How modern organizations work
15:45 - 16:45
Expert Lecture: Change management in digital projects
17:00 - 18:00
Expert Lecture: Success factor Usability
18:00 - 18:15
Exam Preparation
8:30 - 10:30
Exam
10:45 - 12:45
Workshop: IoT via Drag-and-drop - The Internet of Things without programming
12:45 - 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.