Implementation with agile project management approaches: Case study of an industrie 4.0 learning factory in China

With the ""Made in China 2025"" strategy, the People's Republic of China intends to achieve a turnaround from a cheap production location to a technology pioneer, notably through digital technologies, which necessitates qualification of employees in Chinese production companies. To facilitate this, an Industrie 4.0 Learning Factory is being set up in Jiangsu Province, China. Against the background of a rapidly developing state of the art as well as cultural peculiarities of the Chinese target group, classical project management approaches quickly reach their limits. In order to address continuously changing framework conditions, approaches for an ambidextrous project management as well as agile technical-didactic development of the Learning Factory have been established. This enabled the early adaptation of the Learning Factory to the concrete target group of learners and faster realization of a train-the-trainer concept as well as the efficient execution of repetitive processes with rigid requirements.