Manufacturing process planning for the learning factory

The digital factory has to be faced with the acceptance of small and medium sized enterprises (SME). The following article describes an approach to implement sustainable methods for production process planning of SME, based on an integrated technical platform without increasing complexity. It is a matter of realizing an online collaboration of different engineering faculties - a horizontal integration of planning and production through the factory life cycle. The main focus of those methods is the implementation of feedback loops for planning and production, to personalize the learning factory which is capable to hedge the process chain virtually at an early stage, long before the start of operation.