Overview

This unit aims to provide students with an overview and understanding of the core concepts underpinning Industry 4.0. It is designed to expose students to the holistic approach of Industry 4.0, bringing together business, manufacturing, and software processes to optimise the way an organisation operates.

Requisites

Teaching Periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 1
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
26-February-2024
26-May-2024
Last self-enrolment date
10-March-2024
Census date
31-March-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
12-April-2024
Results released date
02-July-2024

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Understand the interactions between various strategic and operational aspects of an organisation that may be optimised for flexibility and value capture and creation (K2,K3)
  • Apply the principles of Industry 4.0 to an organisation's processes (S1)
  • Evaluate the potential of a business or manufacturing process for optimization in an Industry 4.0 framework (S3)

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out)
Lecture		2.00 12 weeks 24
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out)
Tutorial		1.00 12 weeks 12
Unspecified Learning Activities (Phasing out)
Independent Learning		9.50 12 weeks 114
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
Assignment 1Individual 20% 1 
Assignment 2Individual 40% 2 
Assignment 3Individual 40% 3 

Content

  • An introduction to various Industry 4.0 enabling technologies 
  • How Industry 4.0 is operationalised for business
  • The use of digitisation in value creation and capture
  • The concept of an outcome economy and servitisation
  • Business models for Industry 4.0

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.