You will learn how to improve business processes in general, and production and manufacturing processes in particular. You will be provided with the relevant models to assess the process in question, and to acquire the skills required to work in a project team and how to convince the management of necessary changes. You will gain knowledge into the implementation of proposed improvements within the organization. You will work in a structured way and will have to be creative to find the required improvements. The course of study is offered in cooperation with international companies, where students will be doing a project for two days per week.

Group work
You will work in a group with Dutch and international students. This will help you to develop intercultural skills. We will teach you how to apply structure to your work and use your creativity to find the required improvements.

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 + Six Sigma + Theme – 15 ECTS credits (mandatory)
Students learn how to assess the quality of a business process and use Lean / Six Sigma, to apply structure in finding improvements and to implement these in an existing organization.

The support subject is Six Sigma, where you use DMAIC improve quality. Students will participate in guest lectures, workshops, excursions and teambuilding. You will get the opportunity to achieve a Six Sigma Green Belt certificate (€ 50). Software: Minitab.

Electives

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.

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.

Innovatie Management (nl.) – 5 ECTS credits
Als technisch bedrijfskundige of logistiek engineer krijg je in je beroepspraktijk te maken met innovaties en innoveren. Om leiding te geven aan bijvoorbeeld procesverbeteringen of productvernieuwingen, is het noodzakelijk kennis te hebben van de factoren die van belang zijn bij innovatieprocessen. Je leert begrippen en concepten van innovatiemanagement en je krijgt inzicht in hoe de factoren bij innovatieprocessen samenhangen. Je kunt verschillende theorieën en/of perspectieven uit innovatiemanagement toepassen en vertalen naar een praktijksituatie.

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.

Leiderschap (nl.) – 5 ECTS credits
Dit vak gaat over leiderschap; hoe geef je effectief leiding aan jezelf en anderen. En dat is een ontdekkingsreis. Een tocht waarbij wij gebruik maken van onder andere de 7 habits van Stephan Covey en literatuur over coachend leiderschap. Ook nodigen we je uit om zelf materiaal aan te leveren. Gedurende de lessen werken we zoveel mogelijk met casuïstiek die de student zelf inbrengt.

Contact

For questions about the programme:
Mr Paul Touw
p.touw@windesheim.nl/Phone: +31884697793