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The short commissioning time of the production systems needs valuable knowledge from the workforce even from the first day after their graduation. This goal can be achieved by implementing interactive and practical activities during the study period. In this context the students enrolled in the "Advanced mechatronic systems" MSc study at the Sapientia University (SU) will learn about Virtual Commissioning. In the context of "Virtual Manufacturing" lecture, the same idea stands behind the "Industrial Engineering" MSc study at the University of Tromsø(UT). The graduated MSc students at the two universities, who will study the offered lectures and practical exercises, will carry a knowledge about virtual production systems, which is missing today in the Romanian curricula. The students will design, develop the factory floor for different requirements, using modular building systems, including sensors and actuators, which will be controlled through PLC systems. All this will be realized in the virtual environment using different software, enabling the 3D depiction of the factory floor, with possibilities to use of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). The output of the project will be the curricula for the practical part of "Virtual Commissioning" lecture (SU) and "Virtual manufacturing" lecture (UT) consisting of 28 hours laboratory work. In parallel of the joint developed laboratory work, the lecture content of the two mentioned course of study will be harmonized as well to assure the theoretical knowledge at the two cooperating institute.
The resulting educational methodology will provide the continuous quality in the educational process and the permanent relevance of the practical training.
Summary of project results
The short commissioning time of the production systems needs valuable knowledge from the workforce even from the first day after their graduation. This goal can be achieved by implementing interactive and practical activities during the study period. In this context, the students enrolled in the "Advanced mechatronic systems" MSc study at the Sapientia University will learn about Virtual Commissioning in a course of study with the same name. In the context of the "Industrial Engineering" MSc study at the University of Tromsø, Campus Narvik, the same idea stands behind the "Virtual Manufacturing" lecture.
Because in the two partner universities there are two different type lecturing methodology, the 1st IO, first part of curricula, consists of a textual lecture, but also video recordings were made. Actually the 3rd IO are the laboratory work documents, the second part of the curricula, through which the students will learn to use a tool and methodology for virtual commissioning in order to evaluate the built systems. In order to better understand them, augmented and/or virtual reality models are used as well. The same simulations running on PC are transferred to the EON-XR web platform, which enables the use of mobile devices for playing the animations in augmented realty, and enables the use of virtual realty glasses also. As 2nd IO, the individual equipment models were realized using several software tools, to prepare for the 3rd IO. To be able to transfer the models from VC to the EON-XR platform, the simulations must be recreated using the Autodesk 3dsMax software. Of course, the dissemination of the project contains the 4th IO also: articles submitted to peer review publication. There are two articles (one is already accepted for presentation, the other is already sent for peer review) which will be presented in November, respectively in the forthcoming January.
With the help of the closed project, during their study, the students at the two universities will acquire the needed knowledge to be able to produce added value from the first working day on their future workplace. The cooperation between education and the world of work is underlined by the partnership with the company INNORobotics SRL, which delivered information about real robotized cells. The out-comes provides continuous quality in the educational process and permanent relevance of the practical training in the post project period also.
Summary of bilateral results
From bilateral point of view there was a great opportunity to get inside view of different teaching methodologies. As pointed out many times in our TPM or online meetings, the different view of the same topic was applied in the elaboration of the common work. In Romania we have a more theoretical education, so the project partner, had a lot of added value in order to bring our education methodology closer to the practical knowledge. In that way we tried to combine the two aspects, that’s why actually the 1st IO consists not only one output, as mentioned in the project application, but beside text, it also consisted of videos.During the project, the lecture topic of the partner was expanded that way, that their students will able to realize not only the simulation of the production systems’ equipment using the Visual Components software, but using our added knowledge, in their upgraded lecture, that software is linked to the Siemens TIA Portal software for controlling the virtual equipment. Using this approach, the virtual commissioning is completed.During the cooperation there were several ideas for further collaboration. One of that is to expand the laboratory equipment use of our donor partner. Using the digital twin of the lab equipment and the acquired knowledge during this cooperation project regarding the virtual commissioning, we would like the link through the Interne those lab equipment’s and our computers in Romania. In this way our student could use their equipment, without physically being there. The reverse of this could be made also, they will use our equipment in the teaching process. To enable the above approach, we applied and won a mobility project, and one of our students fulfilled his 3-month mobility in that topic. This future realization will pave the way for a more complex cooperation between the two partner institutes, namely to think about a joint MSc study program.