Production and Operations Management

专业介绍

In an increasingly competitive environment where products must meet equally high quality standards and innovations are disseminating ever faster, a key to success of business units in service and production is the efficiency of the value creating process. Participants of our Master of Science Program Production Operations Management learn to encounter the challenge of striving for global optimum of the value creating chain while maintaining local responsibility for execution, reliability, sustainability, and quality.

Focus Points of Production and Operations Management

  • Industry 4.0: Smart factories & digitalization in production (IoT)
  • Supply network management and supply chain optimization
  • International production & distribution networks
  • Virtual Engineering (from CAD Systems to CAx)
  • Prescriptive analytics & operations research
  • Machine learning & AI
  • Autonomous robotics
  • Sustainable production & logistics
  • Data-driven engineering

Set the agenda for innovation, automation, optimization, and globalization

The master’s program Production and Operations Management is divided into 5 engineering and 5 management modules of 2 weeks each, over a period of 15 months. The 10 modules are followed by a master thesis written in the company (9 months), often used as an innovation project for the company. The overall duration is approx. 20 months.