Digital Manufacturing Challenges Education—SmartLab Concept as a Concrete Example in Tackling These Challenges

Digitalization is boosting the manufacturing industry’s shift to smart systems, which will efficiently utilize potential of new technologies for their business outcomes and value. However, literature shows that companies have implemented very little digital technology due a lack required knowledge competences. Increasingly, interconnected, digitalized, complex processes lead skill requirements in thereafter also workforce’s training needs respond manufacturing’s great expectations. The article provides concrete examples tackling challenges education arising from manufacturing. case study introduced this concerns additive (AM) method, expected give rise significant changes various industrial fields, including Advances requires skilled professionals who are aware possibilities latest technology. Education therefore be developed. This points out built learning development environment, SmartLab, supports multidisciplinary approaches close collaboration between several stakeholders like companies, engineering courses, students, RDI actors. SmartLab concept thus provide remarkable competitive advantage region.