Towards the Design of an Education Environment for the Logistics Transformation Using Miniaturized Production Systems (MINIS)

The vision of Industry 4.0 and ongoing challenges in logistics raise the need to develop an educational environment that supports to better understand cause-effect relationships in the digitization of logistics. Students must develop interdisciplinary competencies to grasp the overall vision and work as a team. Learning methods are becoming more specific and individual. This paper proposes a project called MINIS, which serves as an incubator for a multitude of education concepts and supports the mediation of skills to students for the digitization of logistics. The paper aims to reflect established educational concepts such as constructive alignment or project based learning with the learning environment of MINIS. Educators in the fields of logistics are encouraged to built upon these findings in intention to design innovative education concepts.