1 Vocational Training for Computer-Integrated Production.- 2 A Task-Centered Learning Concept Jürgen Broschat.- 3 Criteria of Basic Training in the Field of "Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (CM)".- 4 CIM - Postgraduate Studies. Job-Integrated Training for Engineers.- 5 Study Units in the CIM-Oriented Study Factory.- 6 CIM Training in the Learning Factory.- 7 A Laboratory Learning Factory Called the "Rulers Factory".- 8 Network for Operating Production Technology.- 9 Qualified CIM Training by a Car-Supplier.- 10 CIM Training Concept for Small and Medium-Size Enterprises (SME).- 11 The Teaching of Key Qualifications Using Integrated Learning Stations as Shown in the Example of the Flexible Learning Laboratory System (FLS).- 12 CIM Training for Open and Migrationable Technology.- 13 Training Facilities for CIM.- 14 CIM Training through CIM Practice.- 15 Vocational and Continuing Training in CIM - An Analysis of the FESTO/IBM Modular Training System.- 16 CIM Training by Means of Simulation Models.- 17 FPASIM - A System Approach to Human-Centered, Flexible Production Automation (FPA).- 18 Simulation and Critical Human Factors; The Dutch Contribution to CIM Simulation.- 19 Joint Project: Simulating Work and Technology - Development, Implementation and Application of Computer-Based Systems for Planning, Simulation and Animation in Manufacturing.- 20 FPA Training Within the Dutch Apprenticeship System.- 21 Integrating Organisational Development and Learning Development in a CIM Context.- 22 New Methods of Interdisciplinary Education for Engineers and Computer Scientists in the Field of CIM.- Author Index.

In this paper a nearly perfected concept of basic training in the field of "Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM)" has been explained. With the help of detailed studies conducted in part by the Department of Technology and Education. Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Dortmund the necessity of basic training at all levels for employees in Computer Integrated Manufacturing was verified. Then the new requirements for employees were indicated with respect to the "ability to act". Moreover, the didactic demands of the concept for basic subject-specific training were clearly stipulated. In summary, this concept has to include the invariant, indispensable, fundamental and exemplary contents and the basic options of CIM work organisation which are most important today and in the near future. Then a configuration was presented to meet these demands: the multimedia system of the CIM Learnil)g Factory, subsidised by the EC in the COMETT programme. The CIM Learning Factory consists of . a well-operating "model factory", where activities like job management, production control, design, manufacturing, including loading, material transport and assembly as well as quality control and warehousing, are flexibly shown in functional models and are controlled by means of cross-linked computers (MPC); during the training the cross-linked computer structure is used like a language laboratory; . two different "teachware packages", the first for the target group of designers and decision-makers, the second for skilled workers and plant management.