📖Program Curriculum
Course modules
Compulsory modules
All the modules in the following list need to be taken as part of this course.
Induction
Module Leader
Professor Konstantinos Salonitis
Aim
To introduce the programme and the courses and the facilities available at Cranfield.
Syllabus
• Team working
• Project Management
• Various interpersonal skills: Report writing and Presentation skills
• Various MS Office training packages
Intended learning outcomes On successful completion of this module a student should be able to:
1. Have an appreciation of the Manufacturing Masters programme and course philosophy, structure, content, teaching methods, staff and administration.
2. Be familiar with key facilities (internal and external to Cranfield) and resources such as the library, computer network and Careers Service.
3. Have essential, fundamental knowledge prior to the study including a range of computing-related skills.
4. Have experienced team building and other interpersonal skills including written and verbal communication skills.
5. Appreciate the importance of time/project management throughout the study.
6. Appreciate the importance of Health and Safety at workplace.
Operations Management
Aim
To introduce you to core factors of managing operations.
Syllabus
An introduction to manufacturing and service activities.
Capacity, demand and load; identifying key capacity determinant; order-size mix problem; coping with changes in demand.
Standard times, and how to calculate them; process analysis and supporting tools; process simplification.
What quality is; standards and frameworks; quality tools; quality in the supply chain.
Scheduling rules; scheduling and nested set-ups.
Roles of inventory; dependent and independent demand; Economic Order Quantity; uncertain demand; inventory management systems and measures.
Information systems – at operational, managerial, and strategic levels; bills of material; MRP, MPRll and ERP systems.
Ohno’s 7 wastes; Just-in-Time systems (including the Toyota Production System, and Kanbans).
Class discussion of cases, exercises, and videos to support this syllabus.
Intended learning outcomes On successful completion of this module you will be able to:
1. Assess the key capacity determinant in an operation, and carry out an analysis to develop the most appropriate approach in response to changes in demand.
2. Select and apply appropriate approaches and tools to determine standards and improve processes.
3. Determine the information needed to support businesses, in particular manufacturing operations.
4. Assess and select appropriate Just-in-Time (JIT) tools to improve operations.
5. Develop appropriate quality systems for the whole of their supply chain – from supplier, through operations to customers – and ensure these systems are sustained and a culture of continuous improvement prevails.
Enterprise Systems
Aim
The module aims to provide a systematic understanding and knowledge of the enterprise systems principles and how to use these systems to manage an enterprise. The course will also provide hands-on experience using SAP as a leading industry-standard software application.
Syllabus
• Introduction to business functions, processes and data requirements within an enterprise.
• Enterprise wide IT systems. Managing Enterprise through ERP.
• Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP): concepts, techniques and tools.
• ERP selection and implementation issues.
• An Introduction to IoT and Cyber Security.
• SAP based hands-on case studies.
Intended learning outcomes
On successful completion of this module you will be able to:
1. Describe the principles of business functions, processes and data infrastructure.
2. Explain the concepts, tools and techniques of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and its related subjects such as IoT and Cyber Security.
3. Evaluate issues and challenges in ERP implementation and the importance of Enterprise-wide systems to business operations.
4. Identify the various criteria for ERP selection.
5. Demonstrate working/application knowledge on the use of SAP tool through hands-on case studies.
Operations Analysis
Aim
To develop your skills to a rigorous and logical application of tools and techniques for the design and control operational systems.
Syllabus
• Six Sigma, Process capability, common and special cause variability, control charts, acceptance sampling.
• Lean Manufacturing elements such as Value Stream Mapping and Waste identification.
• Analysis of systems to produce simple models. IDEF0 and IDEF3 and their application. Business process fundamentals and the process review. Improvement procedures, modelling methods and process models. Performance measurement. Responding to and improving reliability.
Intended learning outcomes On successful completion of this module you will be able to:
1) Combine tools for assessing, controlling and improving processes, and their strengths and limitations.
2) Analyze the relationship between work-in-process, lead-time and output in a production system and the impact of variability.
3) Decide the appropriate Six Sigma, Statistical Process Control tools and techniques and lean manufacturing approaches for different manufacturing cases.
4) Develop a ‘systems view’ of manufacturing and servicing operations.
5) Integrate unreliabilityin maintenance techniques can be deployed.
6) Critically appraise appropriate performance measurement system deployment.
Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Aim
To develop your understanding of complex manufacturing systems engineering through the application of different modelling and simulation tools, techniques and methodologies with a view to analyse and (re)design manufacturing systems that maximise value to customers while minimising waste.
Syllabus
• Introduction to modelling: taxonomy, overview of methods and techniques.
• Design of manufacturing layouts.
• Group Technology & Cellular manufacturing in the context of Human centred factory design.
• Manufacturing Systems modelling using discrete-event simulation, Systems dynamics and Agent-based simulation techniques and methodologies.
• Case study Analysis of manufacturing systems using simulation.
Intended learning outcomes On successful completion of this module you should be able to:
1. Differentiate the applicability of different layout types applicable in manufacturing businesses.
2. Assess how production layout and system design influences productivity and, in particular, appraise the effectiveness of cellular configurations.
3. Design a graphical simulation model using an industry leading discrete-event simulation tool.
5. Contrast discrete-event simulation to other modelling techniques especially in addressing emerging manufacturing paradigms.
6. Devise an experimental procedure and interpret the consequential results of the simulation model.
Internet of Things
Aim
To provide introductory knowledge and coverage of IoT technologies and architectures and highlight their innovation potential, enabling you to develop a practical knowledge of IoT solutions development process for product and service innovation.
Syllabus
IoT Concepts & Introduction to IoT
IoT-enabled innovation in products and services
Introduction to IoT project activity
Industry 4.0 technologies and Industrial Internet of things (IIoT)
IoT sensing - Introduction to IoT architectures and platforms
Creating and working with IoT data flows
IoT-enabled data value chains
IoT-driven data analytics (edge and cloud analytics)
From data to IoT-enabled products, applications and services
Cloud services, interfaces, dashboards
Overview of IoT standards
IoT Challenges (scalability, interoperability, security, privacy)
IoT-enabled business ecosystems and business models
Intended learning outcomes
On successful completion of this module you will be able to:
1. Appraise the key concepts of Internet of Things, and inspect enabling Industry 4.0 technologies.
2. Evaluate use cases of theoretical concepts.
3. Assess recent and evolving developments, protocols and technologies for IoT enabled systems and Industrial Internet of things (IIoT).
4. Outline IoT-enabled innovation opportunities and apply the cognitive, practical and key transferable skills necessary for IoT enabled applications and services by proposing your own IoT enabled solution
5. Identify key challenges in the delivery and take-up of IoT-enabled solutions, highlighting the importance of security, privacy and ethics
Supply Chain Management
Aim
To introduce you to the wider issues surrounding the management and optimisation of supply chains.
Syllabus
Supply chain concepts
Supply chain strategy
Relationship management
Supplier Selection and Evaluation
Supplier Sustainability
Supply chain Planning
Design & Operating SC
Outsourcing Product Design and Manufacturing
Intended learning outcomes
On successful completion of this module you will be able to:
1. Evaluate issues surrounding the development of the right supply chain strategy for the business / product groups.
2. Create strategies for managing the information flows in a supply network in order to reduce the bullwhip effect and the challenges of accurate demand and forecast planning.
3. Evaluate the challenges with improving performance of supply networks and gain familiarity with the application of a variety of supply chain tools to help in the re-design of the SC.
4. Organize the complexities in managing and designing distribution centres so that they support the overall SC strategy and customer value proposition in the market place.
5. Integrate procurement and supplier management for the supply chain to function effectively.
Manufacturing Strategy
Aim
To develop your skills to analyse and manage the direction of a business, to design and develop manufacturing strategy to deliver competitive advantage and plan effective deployment of a strategy.
Syllabus
• Competitive manufacturing strategy concepts.
• Benchmarking of manufacturing system performance.
• Manufacturing strategy in business success.
• Strategy formation and formulation, leading on to system design.
• Structured strategy formulation and system design methodologies.
• Approaches to strategy formulation in differing business contexts.
• Realisation of new strategies/system designs, including approaches to implementation.
• Case study on design of competitive manufacturing strategy.
Intended learning outcomes On successful completion of this module you should be able to:
1. Evaluate competitive advantage for manufacturing strategy. 2. Demonstrate manufacturing strategy formulation.
3. Apply a structured methodology to create a competitive manufacturing strategy.
4. Assess the impact of a proposed manufacturing strategy on business performance.
Implementing Effective Change in Manufacturing
