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Duane Boning, David Hardt, Stanley B. Gershwin, Jung-Hoon Chun, Abbott Weiss, Stephen Graves, Sean Willems, and Brian Anthony

Develop the fundamental skills needed for global excellence in manufacturing and competitiveness with the Principles of Manufacturing MicroMasters Credential, designed and delivered by MIT’s #1-world ranked Mechanical Engineering department. Build your career with the credential or use it as credits towards a Master’s Degree by applying to MIT’s world-renowned Master of Engineering in Advanced Manufacturing and Design Blended Program.

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Develop the fundamental skills needed for global excellence in manufacturing and competitiveness with the Principles of Manufacturing MicroMasters Credential, designed and delivered by MIT’s #1-world ranked Mechanical Engineering department. Build your career with the credential or use it as credits towards a Master’s Degree by applying to MIT’s world-renowned Master of Engineering in Advanced Manufacturing and Design Blended Program.

This program provides students with a fundamental basis for understanding and controlling rate, quality and cost in a manufacturing enterprise.

The Principles of Manufacturing are a set of elements common to all manufacturing industries that revolve around the concepts of flow and variations. These principles have emerged from working closely with manufacturing industries at both the research and operational levels.

Targeted towards graduate-level engineers, product designers, and technology developers with an interest in a career in advanced manufacturing, the program will help learners understand and apply these principles to product and process design, factory and supply chain design, and factory operations.

This curriculum focusses on the analysis, characterization and control of flow and variation at different levels of the enterprise through the following subject areas:

  • Unit Process Variation and Control: Modeling and controlling temporal and spatial variation in unit processes
  • Factory Level System Variation and Control: Modeling and controlling flows in manufacturing systems with stochastic elements and inputs.
  • Supply Chain – System Variation and Control: How to operate and design optimal manufacturing-centered supply chains.
  • Business Flows: Understanding the uses and flow of business information to start up, scale up and operate a manufacturing facility.

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Six courses

Manufacturing Systems I

(88 hours)
In this course, part of the Principles of Manufacturing MicroMasters program, you will learn to analyze manufacturing systems to optimize performance and control cost. You will develop an understanding of seemingly opaque production lines with a particular emphasis on random disruptive events – their effects and how to deal with them, as well as inventory dynamics and management.

Management in Engineering: Accounting and Planning

(88 hours)
Managerial ability is an important element of technology companies in an increasingly global and diverse business environment. Combining learned heuristics and techniques for effective decision-making while leveraging technical knowledge is a highly in-demand skill by employers at technical companies. This course will help you bridge the gap between engineers and business people, placing you in an important position that few others can fill.

Supply Chains for Manufacturing: Inventory Analytics

(99 hours)
A supply chain links parties through material, information, and money flows. This course introduces concepts and models for effective supply chain and manufacturing system planning, with an emphasis on managing variability. Topics include risk pooling, inventory placement, integrated planning, information sharing, delayed differentiation, dual sourcing, and smoothing.

Manufacturing Process Control II

(88 hours)
As part of the Principles of Manufacturing MicroMasters program, this course builds on statistical process control foundations to add process modeling and optimization. It develops methods for creating robust processes with optimal quality, covering topics such as evaluating causality, designing experiments for process improvement, optimizing processes, achieving robustness to noise inputs, and integrating these methods into an overall approach to process control.

Supply Chains for Manufacturing: Capacity Analytics

(99 hours)
This course focuses on decision making for system design in manufacturing systems and supply chains.

Manufacturing Systems II

(99 hours)
Manufacturing systems are complex and require analytical analysis. Managers use various methods to optimize performance and control costs.

Learning objectives

  • A new perspective for design and operational decision making at all levels of manufacturing, in the context of volume manufacturing, where rate, quality, cost and flexibility are the key metrics
  • How to operate and control unit processes to ensure maximum quality using basic and advanced statistical and feedback control methods
  • How to design and operate systems of processes with optimal capacity, resilience and inventory
  • How to design and operate optimal supply chain systems
  • The financial underpinnings of a manufacturing enterprise, including new ventures

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