Industrial Digitalization, 7.5 credits

Digitization challenges and transforms several different areas both in our everyday lives and in working life. This course focuses on the enormous opportunities and challenges that arise when the industry is digitized. With each new technological leap, you need to understand how the technology works in order to be able to make the best use of it. Digitization affects companies in different ways, and at different rates depending on which new technologies can be used and how the company's value chain is structured. Digitization gives the company the opportunity to streamline, increase quality and reduce production costs, increase flexibility and new revenues. With the right knowledge and insights into the challenges and opportunities of digitalisation, you create a good basis for strategic and operational decisions. The goal is a production that is smart, flexible and resource efficient, which also contributes to the company's attractiveness as a workplace. The course provides broad knowledge and understanding of industrial processes and various digitization techniques such as; Internet of Things (IoT), digital twins, cyber security, digital supply chain, virtual reality, self-deciding robot cells big data and artificial intelligence. You gain knowledge about the impact of these techniques on different production processes and how they are possible to apply to different production environments. In summary, you get a systematic approach when a business is to be digitized and you learn an innovative way of thinking. The course is aimed at those who have a basic understanding of industrial activities.