Abstract
Globalisation and short product life cycles have a significant influence on the development of the factory of the future. They cause technological changes or batch size and product variation changes to which the factory has to be adapted rapidly. As a result, the factory of the future must be a very flexible system with many planning tasks for engineers. This means that engineering students in future have to be taught not only technical knowledge but also soft-skills or knowledge and skills in information and communication technologies in order to perform successfully as factory planners. A holistic education approach including courses, distance teaching, information and communication technologies and role-playing gives new opportunities for preparing the students for these tasks.
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