Project: Lean Logistics

The objective of the Lean Logistics in the classroom project is to adapt the Lean space at CIFPA with the latest materials, equipment and digital resources to train teachers and students in the latest technologies for improving logistics and transport management processes.

Lean logistics methodology is a philosophy of management and organization of operations of Japanese origin. Applying Lean Logistics to the supply chain consists of identifying and eliminating activities that do not add value in order to increase the flow of products, thus minimizing costs.

CIFPA has materialized, at a material level, in the acquisition of Lean Games sets and associated software that allows a virtual simulation of the Lean methodology and provides a series of templates and tools that can help identify relevant KPIs, establish objectives and develop action plans. 

In addition, a simulation game of a production plant, Lean Logistic Factory, has been designed and developed, which will allow the educational community to experience the problems and efficiency of logistics processes, both procurement, storage and distribution, to discover for themselves the concept of continuous improvement and understand the use of the main tools of logistics and lean manufacturing, in addition, this educational resource is based on gamification methodologies and simulation of continuous improvement.

In this way, we innovate in the application of this philosophy in the sector's cycles. The project included training for the teachers of the sector's cycles with materials used in the sector's cycles.

In addition to CIFPA, the following centers are participating: 

• Labor School Institute (Escola del Treball, Lleida), 
• CPIFP Los Enlaces (Zaragoza), 
• IES Luis Suñer (Valencia), 
• CIFP Francesc de Borja Moll (Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands),

The following centers have also collaborated in the development of the project: 

• IES Santa Emerenciana (Teruel) and
• IES Blecua (Zaragoza).

And the following companies or organizations: 

• ALIA. Logistics Cluster of Aragon and 
• CAAR. Aragon Automotive Cluster.

The project included a testing phase with the participating centers, which was used to promote and disseminate the project.

Project: Warehouse and Logistics Factory

The objective is the Updating of an Automated Logistics Warehouse and Factory, through the development and implementation of a virtual warehouse management platform to train teachers and students in the latest enabling technologies in logistics and transport management processes.

In the CIFPA center, the logistics warehouse and factory have been updated as didactic scenarios for training courses in the Transport and Logistics sector. Mainly, elements are updated for the application of new technologies and methodologies of the sector through the implementation of a Warehouse Management System software (SGA-ERP) that will allow to interconnect this logistic warehouse of the center with all its activity, and that will serve as a model of use for the rest of the educational centers of the national network. In this way, the interaction of companies interested in the research of warehouse management systems is also made possible.

The innovation of this project consists of the possibility of working with this program remotely, so that teachers of training cycles in the sector, after prior training, will be able to use this technology from their own centers with their students. 

In addition to CIFPA, the following centers are participating:

• Labor School Institute (Escola del Treball, Lleida), 
• CPIFP Los Enlaces (Zaragoza), 
• IES Luis Suñer (Valencia) and 
• CIFP Francesc de Borja Moll (Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands). 

And the following companies or organizations: 

• Instrumentación y componentes, S.A. and 
• Nunsys S.A.

The project included a testing phase with the participating centers, which was used to promote and disseminate the project.