Overview on Potentials and Limitations of Existing Learning Factory Concept Variations

Abstract

In practice and in the literature, numerous variations of learning factory concepts can be identified. Here, it becomes unclear which advantages and disadvantages individual variations offer. This chapter provides an overview of the different concept variations of learning factories in the narrow and in the broader sense. For all concept variations, advantages and disadvantages in relation to the learning factory core concept are given. For the different learning factory concept variations, various examples from existing learning factories are given.