FactoryVR
The New Kind of Field Trip. Effortless. And Affordable.
What's it about?
FactoryVR was developed by Prof. Dr. Torbjørn H. Netland and his staff at the Chair of Production and Operations Management (POM) at ETH Zurich. It is used to teach operations management with a high level of immersion. Students virtually visit real factories in different countries to solve concrete tasks aimed at improving productivity.
Following CaseVR, the predecessor project from 2017, FactoryVR marks the beginning of a new era of teaching at ETH Zurich and abroad.
“The VR experience was tremendous! Just the right context, content and a very interactive delivery.”MSc MTEC Student at ETH Zurich
Awards and Funding
We are proud to point out that both FactoryVR and CaseVR have won competitive internal funding from Innovedum: Advancing education at ETH Zurich and received international teaching awards such as the ones shown below.
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Gianluca Spina Award 2018
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ETH innovedum -
Reimagine Education Award 2020 -
Nigel Slack Teaching Innovation Award
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Finalist KITE Award 2022
“I personally loved it, it is such an easy way to bring the production environment to the class!”MAS MTEC Student at ETH Zurich
Our Partners
We work with academic as well as industry partners to ensure high-quality VR content for our students. Our industry partners incorporate FactoryVR into their inhouse training routine. This way we foster immersive learning experiences in both education and working environments.
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Hilti AG -
Jotun -
ABB Schweiz AG
The service FactoryVR is not commercially available at this stage. Nonetheless, please do not hesitate to contact us regarding questions or suggestions that you might have. We are always seeking further improvement.
Did we awake your interest?
Read further. Dive deeper.
Here you can find three papers that were published by Prof. Netland and other academic staff concerning FactoryVR and CaseVR. Additionally, our Chair of Production and Operations Management (POM) at ETH Zurich published a whitepaper on using VR in academic teaching. We are also present at several conferences. See you there!
Resources
- Netland, T., Fleischner, O., Brown, K., and Maghazi, O. (2020): Teaching operations management with virtual reality: Bringing the factory to the students. Journal of Management Education, 44(3), 313–341.
- Netland T., Lorenz R., and Senoner J. (2019): Teaching Lean with Virtual Reality: Gemba VR. in: Rossi M., Rossini M., Terzi S. (eds.) Proceedings of the 6th European Lean Educator Conference. ELEC, Milano, Italy, 12-13.11.2019
- Download Gottini, G., Solari Bozzi, L., Kunde, M., Lorenz, R., and Netland, T. (2021): Creating VR content for teaching operations management. (PDF, 1.7 MB)