Design Paradigms for Workplace-Integrated Learning in the Smart Factory

The vision of smart factories as a modern self-organizing production plant redefines the role of production workers. Knowledge, know-how, experience and competencies of production workers become ever more important, making knowledge management and knowledge transfer key objectives for production companies. In this paper we present five different use cases from five different companies, motivating a set of design paradigms for the creation of technical systems for workplace-integrated learning in the smart factory. These design paradigms seek to generalize the solution design for each of the five use cases. We find them to be in line with literature and previous research findings, and valuable guidelines for the design and implementation of said systems.