The economy is becoming increasingly digital and networked. The intelligent linking of IT and business management systems enables a more flexible, individual, and efficient production as well as an optimization of the entire value chain. The goal of a more flexible production through networking goes hand in hand with ever-shorter product cycles, improved business models and a digitalized value-added network. The core elements of Industry 4.0 are automation, standardization, digitization, and networking as well as the merging of hardware and software.

In order to implement "Industry 4.0", companies are dependent on specialized professionals who have both business management expertise and comprehensive skills in dealing with the key technologies of Industry 4.0.

With "Industry 4.0 & Management", FOM has developed a future-oriented Master's programme whose contents are specifically geared to these requirements. You will acquire both business expertise and management skills as well as sound specialist knowledge of the digital transformation of classic, industrial processes. In this way, you will prepare yourself for a wide range of possible applications in the context of Industry 4.0 and qualify for demanding positions and management tasks in nationally and internationally operating companies across all industries.

Over 2,000 FOM professors and lecturers support you on your way to professional success. It is the teachers who initiate the reciprocal transfer of knowledge between theory and practice and accompany the students right through to their professional practice. Because the dedicated lecturers know what they are talking about. Almost all of them come from practice, have worked in large or medium-sized companies and know the challenges of the working world from their own experience. They are therefore able to illustrate the theoretical, scientific teaching content in concrete application examples from practice and thus make it tangible and understandable for all students.

Founded on the initiative of the Business Education Center Foundation, FOM has given itself a very special profile as a business university. Since it was founded, it has specialized in studying alongside work. The use of synergies between the place of learning "profession" and the place of learning "university" is a central concern - and firmly anchored in the teaching of the FOM.

Everything revolves around the questions: How do our working students best recognize and internalize the importance of an academic approach for the practice of business life. Where, in turn, do practical professional experiences help them to acquire academic skills? And how can they be optimally supported in this learning process?

The more than 2,000 professors and lecturers play a central role in answering all these questions . They are the ones who initiate, guide and ideally accompany this mutual transfer of knowledge right through to the professional practice of the students.

With a degree at the FOM University that accompanies your job or training, you qualify for demanding specialist and managerial tasks and open up new perspectives on the job market. The practical bachelor's and master's degree programs are specially tailored to the special needs of professionals.

Either you study one of over 40 bachelor's and master's courses in classroom form at one of 36 FOM university centers in the lecture hall or you can complete one of four digital bachelor's degree programs as digital live studies with live lectures from the FOM Studios , regardless of location .

Both study models enable direct, personal contact with teachers and fellow students. The exchange among each other, the cooperation in the team and the mutual encouragement are essential aspects that characterize the study at the FOM.

The result: More learning success and a very high success rate thanks to the direct practical transfer.

With more than 57,000 students, the FOM, Germany's university for professionals, is one of the largest universities in Europe. It is an initiative of the non-profit foundation BildungsCentrum der Wirtschaft based in Essen. The FOM offers working people the opportunity to study without having to interrupt or give up their employment. The offer includes more than 40 practice-oriented courses from the university areas of business & management, business & psychology, business & law, health & social affairs, IT management and engineering. The courses take place face-to-face at one of the 35 university centers in Germany and in Vienna. In addition, since the winter semester 2021, the university has been offering digital live studies for professionals,

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