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Learning factories are an important support for production-related teaching, research, and training. But which projects or groups are currently dealing with learning factories in different parts of the world? Who offers forums for exchange and mutual support in designing, setting up, and operating learning factories? This chapter provides an overview of past and ongoing projects and groups of the International Association of Learning Factories (IALF).

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  1. 1.

    See Sect. 10.1.

  2. 2.

    See Sect. 10.2.

  3. 3.

    Network of innovative Learning Factories, see Sect. 10.3.

  4. 4.

    See Sect. 10.4.

  5. 5.

    See Abele et al. (2017a, 2017b).

  6. 6.

    See Sect. 10.1.

  7. 7.

    See Abele et al. (2011).

  8. 8.

    See Sect. 10.4.

  9. 9.

    More information and contact persons of the Working Groups can be found at www.ialf-online.net.

  10. 10.

    See “The Learning Factory an Annual Edition from the Network of Innovative Learning Factories,” for example Network of innovative Learning Factories (2015) and Network of innovative Learning Factories (2016).

  11. 11.

    The video “Line Balancing: Practical example in a Learning Factory” was shot at the Process Learning Factory CiP in Darmstadt, the video can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJg1DyZElvc&feature=youtu.be.

  12. 12.

    The video “Industrie 4.0 in Learning Factories” was shot in several learning factories in Reutlingen, Bochum, and Darmstadt, the video can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg64P0laeTM.

  13. 13.

    See Bauer (2017).

  14. 14.

    The International Academy for Production Engineering.

  15. 15.

    See Abele et al. (2014).

  16. 16.

    See Sect. 10.1.

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Abele, E., Metternich, J., Tisch, M., Kreß, A. (2024). International Association of Learning Factories. In: Learning Factories. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-46428-7_10

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