Virtual learning factory

Learn and experience digital transformation and Industry 4.0 hands-on

Making students fit for the digital transformation

The virtual learning factory enables universities and colleges to simulate a virtual factory and simultaneously use the data in various ways via open web interfaces.

Your advantages

Digital image of production
Simulate realistic production processes
Freely configurable through a simple editor
Develop your Smart Factory Apps
Free access to production data via API

Universities teaching with the virtual learning factory

A unique interplay

Model & simulate realistic manufacturing processes

Model your own production processes and scenarios independently. Through visualisations of your virtual factory, you can immediately see status changes in production and what effects they have on the entire manufacturing process.

Digital twin of production
Realistic production processes
Configurable through visualisation editor

Apps for Industry 4.0 – from smartphones to VR goggles

Develop applications for the industrial internet of things. You can develop entirely new business models with full access to production data. You define the boundaries from the smart factory app for the smartphone to applications for VR data glasses.

Develop your apps
Free access to production data
ADK for easier programming

Generate order & production data at the push of a button

The virtual factory offers the possibility to easily generate a wide variety of production data that is generated in reality. From master and movement data to machine and process data. In this way, individual production processes can be simulated.

Independent generation of data
Mapping of realistic scenarios
Open access via FORCE Bridge API

Easy data retrieval via standardised web services

Our FORCE Bridge API gives you access to over 300 standardised production data for creating digital applications. Easy and user-friendly access via open web interfaces REST.

This is our offering

In a basic version, you can use the virtual learning factory for demonstration purposes and initial production scenarios. In this way, your students learn in a striking way how a factory of the future works. A prefabricated factory master data set is available to you, which students, especially those majoring in computer science, can work with in various ways via open web interfaces – for example, to create factory apps themselves and to call up prefabricated production processes.

to the virtual learning factory
If you want to create your production worlds or scenarios, we are happy to provide you with an individual learning factory. This can be done on your own servers and our license-free software or in the Azure cloud based on a discounted university subscription with Microsoft. Then you can virtually model your very own manufacturing processes. If you have your physical learning machines available, you can connect them as well.

Learning and teaching in the age of Industry 4.0

Try out your own learning factory licence-free now

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Barbara Mayer
Leiterin Smart Production Lab
FH Joanneum

"Thanks to the FORCE Bridge API, we can show our students examples of how production plants can be used more efficiently with I4.0 solutions. With the help of the FORCAM Connector for Microsoft Power Automate, our students can merge data from the production plant with other applications in a very simple way and thus gain I4.0 competencies."