Towards A Data Repository for Educational Factories

The growth of the Industry 4.0 initiatives insinuate the needs for the future manufacturing workforce to embrace digital technology skills complimentary to their core skills. One of the main prerequisites to facilitate the learning of such skills is the availability of data processing flow and repository for capturing and managing manufacturing data. To address this challenge and as result of this research, we have identified a set of core requirements, proposed a data repository architecture, and deployed a prototype of the repository based on this architecture in one of the educational factory at UTeM. We conclude the paper with the discussion on the technical and societal impact to stakeholders as well as the outline of our future work.