Course overview

This course is designed to address the challenges of all modern manufacturing systems. It covers a breadth of subjects that will enable you to appreciate and deal with the complexities of modern industrial and business environments.

The main aims of this course are:

• to demonstrate how the technological and human resources of manufacturing are organised to make products in the most competitive way
• to illustrate the essential role of the human resource and its effective integration into the manufacturing system
• to give the sound theoretical underpinning necessary to exploit the potential of modern manufacturing systems
• to fit management and strategic theories into the realities of modern manufacturing by demonstrating a positive applications approach
• to encourage work on real industrial problems, giving confidence in the ideas underlying manufacturing and the practicalities of implementing these ideas.

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• design an appropriate manufacturing system to fulfil the organisations strategy
• plan how to improve organisations manufacturing systems quality and efficiency and justify those plans
• establish the resources required to successfully complete a complex manufacturing project
• numerically analyse a design and evaluate the feasibility
• manage complex projects that use advanced technology
• exercise effective decision making in complex and unpredictable situations taking into account risk of failure both technical and commercial
• construct and control a budget for a manufacturing project
• lead and motivate people in difficult circumstances
• apply strategic thinking to an organisation in the manufacturing sector
• work effectively in teams and as an individual
• use appropriate industrial software to aid decision-making.

Module guide

Facilities

Specialist facilities include:

• a workshop with industrial scale modern machines such as CNC machines, rapid prototyping machine and robotic system
• a materials lab that includes manual and automatic materials testing machines and electronic scanning microscope
• a computer aided engineering lab with powerful computers loaded with state of the art engineering software that includes Autodesk Inventor, InventorCAM, Catia, Witness simulation package, DFMA, Ansys/LSDyna, electronic CAD and other programmes relevant to engineering.

Entry Requirements:

An appropriate honours degree from a UK university in an engineering or appropriate scientific field or qualifications (and experience) judged by the course team to be equivalent. Those who do not possess an honours degree, but have a degree or degree equivalent qualification and/or appropriate work experience at a suitable level within an organisation for an appropriate length of time, will be considered; applicants may be invited for interview. Qualifications from an approved professional body will also be taken into account.

Our published entry requirements are a guide only and our decision will be based on your overall suitability for the course as well as whether you meet the minimum entry requirements.

We welcome applications from International and EU students. Please select one of the links below for English language and country-specific entry requirement information.

• International students
• EU students
• English language requirements