Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft | Future Work Lab

Digitalization and Industrie 4.0 are transforming industry, as technology paves the way for an increasing number of innovative solutions. But what will industrial manufacturing look like in the future? What suits your company? How do you successfully make implementations?

Opened on February 2, 2017, the Future Work Lab is Germany’s largest facility exploring the impact of Industrie 4.0 on industrial manufacturing. Occupying 1,000 m², it offers a firsthand taste of the industry workplaces of the future. Our Demonstrator World showcases more than 50 demonstrators, covering the full range of future industrial work environments and bringing them to life. This is your chance to see for yourself how aspects of digitalization can enhance future workplaces.

The focus of the current work is to make AI usable for the factory of tomorrow and to create use cases.

The Future Work Lab is open to companies, employees, employee representatives, politicians, researchers and other interested parties. In the period since 2017, we have had more than 12,000 visitors from all over the world. Come and talk to us.

Our demonstrator world showcases a range of scenarios that cover the whole range of future industry work contexts and bring them to life. It is your chance to see for yourself firsthand how workplaces can be enhanced using elements of digitalization.

We also offer seminars, workshops and training opportunities so that entrepreneurs and manufacturing workers can use our learning world to equip themselves with the skills they need in tomorrow’s workplace.

Research can also draw on our world of ideas as a central platform for scientific dialog and further research into production work in the future.