Author: somebodynamedkenny

Today was another good day, we first toured the Allianz arena where we all got to take a behind the scenes look at the FC Munich Bayern team. There we also got to do a players walkout from the tunnel and sit in the on-field seats for the players. After we toured the facility, we [...]

Today was a full day of learning. From 9 to 5 we were at the Werk150 learning factory for a hands-on demonstration of how the system works. Additionally, we got to cover some of the topics that the researchers who run the learning factory were working on, such as: Item Augmented Tracking, 3-D modeling, Exo-Skeletons, [...]

Today was an eventful and long day. We started by having a cultural learning class focused on both verbal and non-verbal communication. There, Dr. Jones help further explain how the directness or indirectness of a conversation is based on a commonality to a culture and how to adapt to different ways that something can be [...]

Today was a lot more relaxed. We started the day by going to The Mercedes Benz Factory and were able to tour their facility. It was unbelievable how well integrated it was with automation. When comparing it to the videos that we had seen beforehand, the lack of actual human input on the main floor [...]

The first day of this trip has to be the longest. I left my house at 2pm CST and now it is 2pm CST as I go to sleep. With over 15 hours of just travelling, I am happy to be here and happy to sleep. While I have been here, we started the day [...]

Although there was a few delays from public transport at the start, we all were able to make it to all the vents today. The start of the day’s Lean 6 Sigma training was very informative on how to narrow down priorities to improve business efficiency and effectiveness without wasting too much time. Then, the [...]

We finally made it to our last stop Rotterdam. The trains were a bit slow and annoying with the transfers, but we finally made it and got right into the tour. With the graduate students that were with us from the local college, it was interesting to learn more about what interesting differences they have [...]

Today was a bit of a slower day. We left the hotel around 8 am and spent the whole morning touring the main city center. A lot of it was nice to see but plenty of spots were empty or in disrepair. The most memorable part of the tour was the end where we went [...]

After the long hours on the train yesterday, today was a refresher with us being able to go out and about again. I took the morning to go out an explore some coffee shops before we began the day. Overall we went on a boat tour of the Port aswell as explored the newer island [...]

This day was less eventful than the others. We took a tour of the Skoda factory but it was mostly off limits to their development of a new vehicle. One cool thing that I did find was an underground restaurant that was themed as a fantasy Underground