Sustainability transformation challenges for manufacturing companies and their employees: An approach how a serious game prepares and fosters the transformation

Besides the transformation process challenge towards intelligent networked production systems, the growing demand for the topic sustainability, which is integrated with the production process, creates an additional complex challenge for manufacturing companies. The industrial transformation process with regard to the focus of the fourth industrial revolution is enlarged in terms of the inquiry of sustainability and especially the circular economy. In particular, external political, economic and environmental factors, but at the same time society changes towards a sustainable mindset of people shape the future development. This article focuses on the question of how to sensitize and qualify employees of manufacturing companies with a serious game to start the preparation of the upcoming challenges regarding sustainable transformation. Starting from an optimized holistic production system as a start setting, currently discussed topics will be added as scenarios to teach and build up abilities to be prepared and face upcoming challenges.