Advanced Manufacturing Short Course

Production Engineering

When
August to November

Mode of delivery
Online - 1 hour a week

Duration
12 Weeks

Location
Online

$4,500

What you'll study

This short course will prepare you and your organisation for the future of manufacturing and product engineering by exploring these tools, ideas and techniques:

Production Engineering Foundations: Understand key building blocks for creating an effective, process-driven production environment.
Sustainability: Learn techniques to minimise waste and enhance resource efficiency for productive and environmentally sustainable operations.
Lean Thinking and Critical Application: Explore Lean strategies and how to apply critical thinking in production settings.
Process Optimisation: Learn about reliability, maintainability, process layout, and flow, and how standards support these areas.
Cross-Disciplinary Integration: Explore the connections between manufacturing, engineering, operations research, logistics, and management science.

Who should attend

This topic is for professionals in manufacturing, production, jobbing shops, and sustainment fields who want to enhance their skills in production engineering and lean thinking.

Learning outcomes

Improve a Processes flow through Value Stream mapping and the associated development of layout, process steps, automation and other PE tools
Apply optimisation and simulation techniques that provide up front vision of issues and solutions before implementation
Apply a Lean Thinking, standardised work approach to a process
Effectively employ multiple production engineering tools such as predictive maintenance, Global 8D, FMEA’s, SMED, Control Plans, Theory of Constraints, Lean layout, Quick Changeover and Process Work Balance
Provide an understanding of the application of automation techniques and mechatronics in manufacturing and sustainment
Evaluate the human, environmental (energy efficient design, power management and the accommodation of ISO14000) and financial (cost, time and resource) factors within a process

Assessment

Oral presentation, reports

Credentials

On completion of this course, you will earn a Flinders Digital Credential that is verifiable and recognised as proof of your new skills and can be shared on LinkedIn to enhance your profile with employers.