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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
- ELECTRIC AND HYBRID VEHICLE
- ROBOTICS
- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
- DIGITALISATION
- BUILDING AUTOMATION
- INDUSTRY 4.0 (SMART FACTORIES)
- RENEWABLE ENERGIES
- STEM
The professions associated with electric and hybrid vehicles are very diverse, but they all start with the basic principles. Those requisite fundamentals of electricity are already taught during the first school years. We build on that foundation and accompany young people along the entire education chain, ranging from training on electric vehicles and qualified vehicle service methodology to appropriate rescue and recovery practices in traffic accident situations.
For a hypothetical student, the educational journey starts out already early on in primary and secondary school. Here, our experiment sets and sensors are used to transmit the principles of energy, its production and safe use – including renewable energies. With that knowledge, students can then continue their journey with the appropriate fundamentals and use our training systems to master their university-level and/or technical studies in the field of electric and hybrid vehicles.
E-mobility is currently changing entire industrial sectors and poses a huge challenge for the automotive industry as well as for suppliers and the entire supply chain. The cornerstones of this form of mobility are currently being laid, and that explains the importance of promptly staffing this technology. Businesses that fail to achieve this will soon be left behind.
It is true that electric vehicles also require energy, and we do make an effort to support all forms of energy that make mobility more sustainable: our teaching, instruction and training systems for renewable energies such as photovoltaics and wind power offer these opportunities. And with our “Smart Grids” training module, power grids can also be adapted to meet future requirements.
One subject of especially topical interest is our CarTrain training system for emergency first responders, i.e. traffic accident assistance and the recovery of electric vehicles (HV vehicles). Using various accident scenarios, it permits trainees to practice the correct methods for electric vehicles. The hardware training panel gives users the opportunity to work on power disconnection, dealing with burning vehicles, and the correct use of rescue equipment. This imparts the professionalism and routine that first responders need in an emergency. All training steps are supported by didactic materials and an e-learning module. And that’s how perfectly synchronised Real Experience Learning works.
Learning new things is a great challenge for the human brain. Our senses play a key role in the process: Through the eyes, vision provides up to 20% of the information (from reading and observation), but more than 80% of true learning success comes only through figuring things out, grasping their meaning – through implementing and doing. So the student’s own hands, the haptic experience, and movement are the keys to learning success. All of our experiments and training systems are designed in a way that clearly describes how to perform the experiments, supports real implementation by means of our system, and enables the immediate monitoring of success. Moreover, everything is complemented by didactically prepared instruction materials. This creates the perfect combination of theory and practice – a mixture of seeing, understanding, demonstrating, simulating and autonomous action.
Robotics or robotic engineering deals with the design, configuration, control, production and operation of robots – industrial robots or service robots, for example. For this area, we offer numerous training systems and experiment set-ups that enable special and precisely matched training on and with various robotic systems in practical operation
Robotics is considered to be one of the pillars of Industry 4.0 and smart factories. Because the flexibility and intelligence of robotic solutions make them particularly well-suited for automating manufacturing operations, even with small production runs and a large range of variants.
The most obvious advantage of robots in the workplace is the cost factor, of course. Robots are much less expensive than human labour and their costs decline steadily over time. We cannot compare the capabilities of a human with those of robots or robot arms, but the capabilities of robots are developing at an extremely fast pace. The companies of LN EDUCATION GROUP are your reliable partners in this special, constantly evolving and promising digital area. We help you select and use optimal training systems and high-quality education solutions.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the umbrella term for applications in which machines perform human-like intellectual activities. This includes machine learning, natural language processing (NLP) and deep learning. For this thematic area, the companies of LN EDUCATION GROUP offer numerous training systems and experiment set-ups that enable special and precisely matched training on and with various AI systems in practical use across an extremely wide range of applications.
All industries and business sectors where people have to perform cognitive work based on large volumes of data and where processes have to be optimised can benefit from the use of artificial intelligence. This includes image recognition, for example. AI and machine learning are no longer solely of interest to scientists. AI is everywhere and examples of its application areas include:
- Transportation: Autonomous vehicles and similar technologies
- Manufacturing: Conveyor belts driven by artificial intelligence
- Healthcare: Diagnostic instruments and virtual nursing care
- Education: Tools for early childhood education
- Customer service: Chatbots and AI assistants
Artificial intelligence will prevail in many areas, because it offers a decisive economic benefit: It lowers the cost of forecasting. Unlike “data processing,” AI looks into the future. The companies of LN EDUCATION GROUP are your reliable partners in this special, constantly evolving and promising digital area, helping you select and use optimal training systems and high-quality education solutions.
Digitalisation collectively refers to the virtualisation of genuinely existing processes, objects, and much more, as well as their networking. We offer future-proof education and training systems that are ideally suited to this field.
Digitalisation affects nearly every sphere of life. People, employees and students need the full range of specialised knowledge related to this topic. Educational establishments, companies and institutions are called upon to satisfy this need and also to anticipate future topics. In this context, we handle the preparation part along with the joint development of solutions for the didactic transmission of knowledge.
Digitalisation involves high volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity – also known by the acronym ‘VUCA’. To satisfy these requirements, training solutions must already anticipate future needs. With this in mind, we maintain a team of experts who work continuously on advanced development. Because regular updates and modifications are indispensable in this context.
Building automation (BA) is the automatic control, regulation, monitoring and optimisation of building services engineering (BSE). BA combines heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, lighting, shading and other building services into an overall smart system. For this topic area, the companies of LN EDUCATION GROUP offer numerous training systems and experiment set-ups that enable special and precisely matched training on and with various BA systems in practical use across an extremely wide range of applications.
Components used in the configuration of a BA system include:
- Automation units (DDC-BA controllers)
- Control cabinet
- Field devices, such as sensors and actuators
- Room automation system
- Wiring and bus systems
- Server(s) and gateways
- Management and control facilities (outdated: building management system
- Software for the visualisation of information)
The companies of LN EDUCATION GROUP are your reliable partners in this special, constantly evolving and promising digital area, helping you select and use optimal training systems and high-quality education solutions.
The conveyance of this expertise requires a coherent and efficient concept. Otherwise, the sheer number of different functions can easily cause trainees to lose their bearings within the overall system. With the training systems of the companies of LN EDUCATION GROUP, instructors provide structure for the vast world of networked buildings. On these systems, trainees learn how to install, configure and apply numerous functions using up-to-date technology.
Industry 4.0 or smart factory refers to, among other things, the interaction between people and production equipment as well as intelligent communication among technical systems. Intelligent workpieces, production resources and flexible value creation steps are integrated into production operations. The goal is distributed production that maximises flexibility at a minimum price.
The key elements of Industry 4.0 include technical systems such as bus systems, RFID and intelligent control centres that control complete production lines. Other thematic areas of our educational offering are closely intertwined with Industry 4.0, such as digitalisation and automation.
Optimal training and educational solutions include training equipment sets for fundamentals to facilitate the understanding and realisation of an Industry 4.0 plant, i.e. smart factory. Subcomponents such as bus systems and topics such as CPS (cyber-physical systems) as well as core topics such as RFID are communicated with practical examples. Our highly complex educational solutions make it possible to study and understand the interaction of a complex production system in different modular stages.
Unlike oil or coal, renewable energies release hardly any emissions. Moreover, energy sources such as sunlight and wind are available in unlimited quantities – which means they are not scarce like fossil fuels. The companies of LN EDUCATION GROUP are your reliable partners in this special, constantly evolving and promising area, helping you select and use optimal training systems and high-quality education solutions.
Among the renewable energies, wind power is the most profitable and the second largest in terms of gross electricity production. According to the German Environmental Agency, wind power accounted for 28% of gross electricity production in 2020. Wind power’s contribution to climate protection is proportionately high. Overall, of course, it depends on which forms of energy production are possible and reasonable under the specific regional conditions, such as hydroelectric power in regions with an abundant supply of water and suitable topography.
Replace the “or” with “and” here, because in future we will need a mix of all these forms of renewable energy to satisfy the increasing demand for energy and achieve the urgently required energy transformation. For every area of renewable energy, the companies of LN EDUCATION GROUP offer numerous training systems and experiment set-ups that enable special and precisely matched training on and with an extremely wide range of systems in practical operation.
Many of today’s challenges have arisen as a result of technological advances that unfortunately now place a heavy burden on us. Take CO2 emissions, for example, which are primarily the consequence of our highly industrialised societies. We now need innovative technological solutions that help us to sustainably deal with these problems. The STEM subjects provide us with a good foundation for this, and have long-term potential when it comes to vocational training. Good education is an influencer.
Good specialist training leads to prosperity and self-determination in life. The majority of our problems can be traced back to inadequate vocational training. The technical professions that draw on STEM content offer significant potential for making headway towards the overarching goal and developing sustainable solutions for our global objectives.
For many problems on this planet, there are still no good solutions that can be copied or bought from somewhere. Interdisciplinary co-operation is crucial, because it is no longer possible to solve the worlds problems by oneself. It takes a variety of specialist disciplines and creative teams in order to come up with good solutions. Open-ended STEM project assignments promote this kind of collaborative approach.
It is very important that STEM projects are tackled in a highly structured and systematic way. You have to identify complex interdependencies and break them down into sub-steps and partial solutions. Collaborative working is essential for this. The solution team must act in concert and pursue the shared goal. These STEM skills are especially important and are prioritised. In addition, a wide range of knowledge and skills is acquired, and capacity is further enhanced in the process.
- ELECTRIC AND HYBRID VEHICLE
The professions associated with electric and hybrid vehicles are very diverse, but they all start with the basic principles. Those requisite fundamentals of electricity are already taught during the first school years. We build on that foundation and accompany young people along the entire education chain, ranging from training on electric vehicles and qualified vehicle service methodology to appropriate rescue and recovery practices in traffic accident situations.
For a hypothetical student, the educational journey starts out already early on in primary and secondary school. Here, our experiment sets and sensors are used to transmit the principles of energy, its production and safe use – including renewable energies. With that knowledge, students can then continue their journey with the appropriate fundamentals and use our training systems to master their university-level and/or technical studies in the field of electric and hybrid vehicles.
E-mobility is currently changing entire industrial sectors and poses a huge challenge for the automotive industry as well as for suppliers and the entire supply chain. The cornerstones of this form of mobility are currently being laid, and that explains the importance of promptly staffing this technology. Businesses that fail to achieve this will soon be left behind.
It is true that electric vehicles also require energy, and we do make an effort to support all forms of energy that make mobility more sustainable: our teaching, instruction and training systems for renewable energies such as photovoltaics and wind power offer these opportunities. And with our “Smart Grids” training module, power grids can also be adapted to meet future requirements.
One subject of especially topical interest is our CarTrain training system for emergency first responders, i.e. traffic accident assistance and the recovery of electric vehicles (HV vehicles). Using various accident scenarios, it permits trainees to practice the correct methods for electric vehicles. The hardware training panel gives users the opportunity to work on power disconnection, dealing with burning vehicles, and the correct use of rescue equipment. This imparts the professionalism and routine that first responders need in an emergency. All training steps are supported by didactic materials and an e-learning module. And that’s how perfectly synchronised Real Experience Learning works.
Learning new things is a great challenge for the human brain. Our senses play a key role in the process: Through the eyes, vision provides up to 20% of the information (from reading and observation), but more than 80% of true learning success comes only through figuring things out, grasping their meaning – through implementing and doing. So the student’s own hands, the haptic experience, and movement are the keys to learning success. All of our experiments and training systems are designed in a way that clearly describes how to perform the experiments, supports real implementation by means of our system, and enables the immediate monitoring of success. Moreover, everything is complemented by didactically prepared instruction materials. This creates the perfect combination of theory and practice – a mixture of seeing, understanding, demonstrating, simulating and autonomous action.
- ROBOTICS
Robotics or robotic engineering deals with the design, configuration, control, production and operation of robots – industrial robots or service robots, for example. For this area, we offer numerous training systems and experiment set-ups that enable special and precisely matched training on and with various robotic systems in practical operation
Robotics is considered to be one of the pillars of Industry 4.0 and smart factories. Because the flexibility and intelligence of robotic solutions make them particularly well-suited for automating manufacturing operations, even with small production runs and a large range of variants.
The most obvious advantage of robots in the workplace is the cost factor, of course. Robots are much less expensive than human labour and their costs decline steadily over time. We cannot compare the capabilities of a human with those of robots or robot arms, but the capabilities of robots are developing at an extremely fast pace. The companies of LN EDUCATION GROUP are your reliable partners in this special, constantly evolving and promising digital area. We help you select and use optimal training systems and high-quality education solutions.
- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the umbrella term for applications in which machines perform human-like intellectual activities. This includes machine learning, natural language processing (NLP) and deep learning. For this thematic area, the companies of LN EDUCATION GROUP offer numerous training systems and experiment set-ups that enable special and precisely matched training on and with various AI systems in practical use across an extremely wide range of applications.
All industries and business sectors where people have to perform cognitive work based on large volumes of data and where processes have to be optimised can benefit from the use of artificial intelligence. This includes image recognition, for example. AI and machine learning are no longer solely of interest to scientists. AI is everywhere and examples of its application areas include:
- Transportation: Autonomous vehicles and similar technologies
- Manufacturing: Conveyor belts driven by artificial intelligence
- Healthcare: Diagnostic instruments and virtual nursing care
- Education: Tools for early childhood education
- Customer service: Chatbots and AI assistants
Artificial intelligence will prevail in many areas, because it offers a decisive economic benefit: It lowers the cost of forecasting. Unlike “data processing,” AI looks into the future. The companies of LN EDUCATION GROUP are your reliable partners in this special, constantly evolving and promising digital area, helping you select and use optimal training systems and high-quality education solutions.
- DIGITALISATION
Digitalisation collectively refers to the virtualisation of genuinely existing processes, objects, and much more, as well as their networking. We offer future-proof education and training systems that are ideally suited to this field.
Digitalisation affects nearly every sphere of life. People, employees and students need the full range of specialised knowledge related to this topic. Educational establishments, companies and institutions are called upon to satisfy this need and also to anticipate future topics. In this context, we handle the preparation part along with the joint development of solutions for the didactic transmission of knowledge.
Digitalisation involves high volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity – also known by the acronym ‘VUCA’. To satisfy these requirements, training solutions must already anticipate future needs. With this in mind, we maintain a team of experts who work continuously on advanced development. Because regular updates and modifications are indispensable in this context.
- BUILDING AUTOMATION
Building automation (BA) is the automatic control, regulation, monitoring and optimisation of building services engineering (BSE). BA combines heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, lighting, shading and other building services into an overall smart system. For this topic area, the companies of LN EDUCATION GROUP offer numerous training systems and experiment set-ups that enable special and precisely matched training on and with various BA systems in practical use across an extremely wide range of applications.
Components used in the configuration of a BA system include:
- Automation units (DDC-BA controllers)
- Control cabinet
- Field devices, such as sensors and actuators
- Room automation system
- Wiring and bus systems
- Server(s) and gateways
- Management and control facilities (outdated: building management system
- Software for the visualisation of information)
The companies of LN EDUCATION GROUP are your reliable partners in this special, constantly evolving and promising digital area, helping you select and use optimal training systems and high-quality education solutions.
The conveyance of this expertise requires a coherent and efficient concept. Otherwise, the sheer number of different functions can easily cause trainees to lose their bearings within the overall system. With the training systems of the companies of LN EDUCATION GROUP, instructors provide structure for the vast world of networked buildings. On these systems, trainees learn how to install, configure and apply numerous functions using up-to-date technology.
- INDUSTRY 4.0 (SMART FACTORIES)
Industry 4.0 or smart factory refers to, among other things, the interaction between people and production equipment as well as intelligent communication among technical systems. Intelligent workpieces, production resources and flexible value creation steps are integrated into production operations. The goal is distributed production that maximises flexibility at a minimum price.
The key elements of Industry 4.0 include technical systems such as bus systems, RFID and intelligent control centres that control complete production lines. Other thematic areas of our educational offering are closely intertwined with Industry 4.0, such as digitalisation and automation.
Optimal training and educational solutions include training equipment sets for fundamentals to facilitate the understanding and realisation of an Industry 4.0 plant, i.e. smart factory. Subcomponents such as bus systems and topics such as CPS (cyber-physical systems) as well as core topics such as RFID are communicated with practical examples. Our highly complex educational solutions make it possible to study and understand the interaction of a complex production system in different modular stages.
- RENEWABLE ENERGIES
Unlike oil or coal, renewable energies release hardly any emissions. Moreover, energy sources such as sunlight and wind are available in unlimited quantities – which means they are not scarce like fossil fuels. The companies of LN EDUCATION GROUP are your reliable partners in this special, constantly evolving and promising area, helping you select and use optimal training systems and high-quality education solutions.
Among the renewable energies, wind power is the most profitable and the second largest in terms of gross electricity production. According to the German Environmental Agency, wind power accounted for 28% of gross electricity production in 2020. Wind power’s contribution to climate protection is proportionately high. Overall, of course, it depends on which forms of energy production are possible and reasonable under the specific regional conditions, such as hydroelectric power in regions with an abundant supply of water and suitable topography.
Replace the “or” with “and” here, because in future we will need a mix of all these forms of renewable energy to satisfy the increasing demand for energy and achieve the urgently required energy transformation. For every area of renewable energy, the companies of LN EDUCATION GROUP offer numerous training systems and experiment set-ups that enable special and precisely matched training on and with an extremely wide range of systems in practical operation.
- STEM
Many of today’s challenges have arisen as a result of technological advances that unfortunately now place a heavy burden on us. Take CO2 emissions, for example, which are primarily the consequence of our highly industrialised societies. We now need innovative technological solutions that help us to sustainably deal with these problems. The STEM subjects provide us with a good foundation for this, and have long-term potential when it comes to vocational training. Good education is an influencer.
Good specialist training leads to prosperity and self-determination in life. The majority of our problems can be traced back to inadequate vocational training. The technical professions that draw on STEM content offer significant potential for making headway towards the overarching goal and developing sustainable solutions for our global objectives.
For many problems on this planet, there are still no good solutions that can be copied or bought from somewhere. Interdisciplinary co-operation is crucial, because it is no longer possible to solve the worlds problems by oneself. It takes a variety of specialist disciplines and creative teams in order to come up with good solutions. Open-ended STEM project assignments promote this kind of collaborative approach.
It is very important that STEM projects are tackled in a highly structured and systematic way. You have to identify complex interdependencies and break them down into sub-steps and partial solutions. Collaborative working is essential for this. The solution team must act in concert and pursue the shared goal. These STEM skills are especially important and are prioritised. In addition, a wide range of knowledge and skills is acquired, and capacity is further enhanced in the process.