XPERTISE 5.0 – XR-based training for industrial education and training

This collaborative project explores how companies can secure critical expert knowledge in the long term and efficiently transfer it to employees. The background to this is current challenges such as skills shortages, increasing employee turnover, and the growing digitalization of work processes.

The project aims to develop a modular training system based on Extended Reality (XR) that enables immersive learning environments for industrial training scenarios. With the help of XR, complex products and systems can be realistically visualized, disassembled, and interactively explored. CAD data is displayed directly in the real-world environment, allowing components to be viewed in their original size and compared with real-world objects. This facilitates the understanding of complex systems and supports knowledge transfer within the company.

The combination of XR-supported learning with a systematic analysis of organizational resilience is particularly innovative. This provides companies not only with new training tools but also with insights into their readiness for change and their knowledge structures.

The project consortium comprises nine corporate partners from industry and education, as well as two research institutions. The first XR applications are already being tested in real-world training scenarios.