Course Summary
This course aims to enable you to gain a deep understanding of the manufacturing technologies and overlapping logistics in the global automotive industry. More specifically, the course will introduce you to the advanced methods and tools for design, analysis, optimisation and management of automotive manufacturing systems and processes.
The course includes the following key topics:
- Logistics and supply chain management in the global automotive industry
- Advanced automotive manufacturing technologies
- Lean manufacturing
- Methodological design and analysis of automotive industrial systems
- Process planning (flow, analysis, stabilisation and optimisation)
- Process modelling and simulation
- Management and control of processes
- Manufacturing engineering software tools
- Virtual plant layout
- Research skills