Cooperation as a Key Element Between Universities and Factories

This article deals with the necessity of education of employees and young people for the needs of Factories of the Future. People should be creating the core of enterprises, and ICT should be only means for acceleration of enterprise’s development. Below, the best practices are described for the development of knowledge base of employees, students, postgraduate students and young scientific workers that are being trained for the needs of Slovak industry and for Factories of the Future. The article too describes best practices from Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Department of Industrial Engineering from University of Žilina. In the end of this article are some statistics information.