Is it your ambition to manage a production department? Then this minor is what you need, because it deals with management of production or logistics operations. The course of study is offered in cooperation with international companies, where students will be doing a project for two days per week.

Practice what you learn
Small groups of students actively engage in a real life problem. You will work for two days every week at a company, this company provides a highly complex situation. Based on previous knowledge and the courses provided you will be able to come up with improvements. This all happens in a structured way and most of the time you will be able to implement your solution in the company.

General requirements: two years of engineering studies and good English-language skills.

Classes will be scheduled between 8:30 AM and 18:30 PM, with a maximum of 6 to 8 hours a day.

Two weeks before start of the semester, the schedules are published.

The full semester program includes the project + mandatory subject (15 ECTS) + 3 Electives (3 x 5 ECTS)

Project + Operations Strategy + Theme – 15 ECTS credits
Operations can work based on customer needs or because the company possesses specific competences. How can you produce products or services according to customer needs? Does your customer demand a flexible product? What processes, technology and supply chain solutions are at your disposal to achieve optimal customer satisfaction? That is what you will learn during this module.

Electives

Smart Logistics (eng.) – 5 ECTS credits
Embark on an insightful exploration of smart logistics, where innovation and technology converge to shape the future of logistics. Integrated logistics, supply chains and last-mile logistics are developing swiftly, based on the latest insights in technology like data driven logistics, robotics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data and the internet of things.
Join us in the fascinating world of Smart Logistics, where logistics are organized with unprecedented efficiency, using the power of intelligent technology.
As your guide, we are pleased to introduce compelling topics in this module:

• Trends in Last-Mile Delivery
• Trends in Warehouse Automation
• Data-Driven Logistics
• Machine Learning with Matlab
• Dashboards with PowerBI
• Simulation with Flexsim

Lean/QRM (eng.) – 5 ECTS credits
Many organizations run numerous improvement projects. These ambitious projects tend to tie up people for considerable amounts of time, on top of their normal tasks. Each individual project assesses a current problem within the organization as a whole. The question is, is there also improvement in the bottom-line performance of the organization after completing a project? If there is no process to address the constraint in the organization, there is also no focus which areas should be addressed. In this course you will learn to set up a process to address the restrictions within the organization and increase the performance of an organization as a whole.

Advanced Planning & Scheduling (eng.) – 5 ECTS credits
Planning and scheduling are forms of decision-making that play an important role in most manufacturing and service industries. The planning and scheduling functions in a company typically use analytical techniques and heuristic methods to allocate its limited resources to the activities that have to be done. During this module, you will cover the following topics:

• MPC systems, S&OP, manufacturing and dispatching rules
• Characteristics of service industries, Project and CPM
• Scheduling: programming, shifting bottleneck procedures, annealing, Tabu search and Beam search
• Interval scheduling, reservation systems and timetabling
• Economic Lot Scheduling
• Personnel scheduling problems

Consultancy Skills (eng.) – 5 ECTS credits
The module Consultancy skills helps you to develop effective consultancy and communication skills. We challenge you to examine the assumptions and interpretations you have about yourself and others. This will help you to examine the way you communicate, in order to become more effective in getting your message across as a professional consultant.

Circularity in Supply Chains (eng.) – 5 ECTS credits
Students learn to assess circular opportunities within business models and supply chains of companies and advise on strategies to increase circularity based on a redesign of supply chain processes. This is achieved by working on a real-life case and by playing an online management game in which students steer an e-bike manufacturer aiming to pursue circular business opportunities. Lectures provide the required theoretical underpinnings.

Advanced simulation (eng.) – 5 ECTS credits
During the Simulation module, you will learn how to use simulation study for production process improvement and management of production processes. After this course, you will be able to recognize when simulation can be used as a tool for decision-making, especially in a manufacturing environment. You will also be able to use the software Siemens Plant Simulation, make simple calculations as a means of validating a simulation study and to interpret and analyze the results from a simulation study.

Management Control Systems (nl.)– 5 ECTS credits
This course is intended for students who will make business decisions, evaluate organizational performance, or evaluate others (and/or be evaluated) through the use of mainly nonfinancial information. In other words, the course is designed to be useful particularly for those who aspire to be managers or management consultants.

Practical information

For questions about the programme:
Mr Frank Evers
jf.evers@windesheim.nl/Phone: +31884696425