Two locations maintained by SZTAKI-in Budapest and Gyor, respectively-provide infrastructure for learning factory programs, primarily in layout and process planning, and process execution. In addition to project-oriented work successfully hosted by the facilities for several years, the development of repeatable and evolvable learning content began in 2019. A preceding publication presented a roadmap for the development of re-usable courses based on outcomes of one-shot projects which built up an initial infrastructure. This paper gives an in-progress view at selected dimensions of learning content and course development. In view of recent additions to available infrastructure, an extended portfolio of design and scenario choices is presented with suggested sets of options which can be opened up for elaboration by course participants. Complementing these, typical course types are also summarized, with special emphasis on options likely to be deployed in the current operating context of the facilities.

In contrast to one-way assembly of products, simple disassembly and more complex remanufacturing present additional challenges and unknowns on several levels, often requiring human capabilities to be combined with machines—thereby becoming a rewarding deployment field for human–robot collaboration, supported by artificial intelligence, advanced planning and extended reality for improved human–machine interrelations. While the industry has realized little benefit of these—still evolving—areas, learning factories can contribute to closing gaps in skills and mindset of future engineers likely to actively shape the aforementioned fields at the time they begin to notably penetrate industrial production. The paper proposes an approach for building up a portfolio of learning factory resources supporting students in acquiring and independently refining knowledge and practice related to collaborative remanufacturing. The paper presents an incremental approach extending manufacturing knowledge to diagnostics and disassembly in collaborative environments, with an outlook on more comprehensive remanufacturing.