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Industrial Production Online - Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
Faculty of Business & Media via distance learning
Industrial Production via distance learning
This program of industrial production examines how to improve the efficacy of manufacturing from the systems or processes currently in place or being developed. It considers quality control tools and how to reduce cost while making products more attractive and marketable. It combines manufacturing technology, engineering and management to deliver optimal manufacturing processes and production methods.
Academic Supervisor : Wolf Dettmer
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Industrial Production Online via distance learning
Specialist, Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor - Industrial Production.
This module is applicable to Specialist, Expert, Bachelor's, Master's & Ph.D. (Doctor) Degree Programs. This academic program is designed at the postgraduate level (Master’s or Doctoral). This module may also be adapted to complete the course requirements of Specialist, Expert Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree. A further option is the enrollment into each of the courses listed within this specialization module. This module may be combined or completed with other modules from this faculty. For example: Industrial Engineering - Logistics - Maintenance Engineering Management - Occupational Safety & Health - Operations Management - Petroleum & Natural Gas Production - Process Instrumentation Technology - Project Engineering Management - R & D Research & Development - Robotics & Automation - Total Quality Management .
Specialist - Expert Diploma - Industrial Production Online
Tuition Fee: 1.050 Euros (1.350 US$) ... 1.470 Euros (1.890 US$).
Specialist - Expert Diploma Online: 15 ... 21 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Industrial Production via distance learning = 39 Academic credits - Select 5 courses for the online diploma of Specialist or 7 courses for the Expert Diploma from the total of courses from the specialization module.
Bachelor's Degree - Industrial Production Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 3.510 Euros (4.420 US$) ... Max. 6.800 Euros (8.700 US$).
Bachelor's Degree Online: 130 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Industrial Production via distance learning = 39 Academic credits + 40 credits in General Education (may be transferred from previous education and professional experience) + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Business & Media from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Operations Management.
Master's Degree - Industrial Production Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 4.680 Euros (6.120 US$) ... Max. 7.020 Euros (9.180 US$).
Master's Degree Online: 36 ... 54 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Industrial Production via distance learning = 39 Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Business & Media from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Operations Management. + 13 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree - Industrial Production Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 5.850 Euros (7.650 US$) ... Max. 9.360 Euros (12.240 US$).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree Online: 45 ... 72 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Industrial Production via distance learning = 39 Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Business & Media from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Operations Management. + 18 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).
Payment plans are available upon request up to 36 monthly installments. More info...
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Industrial Production Online
Courses list (each subject accounts for 3 academic credits):
1 BIU Earned Credit = 1 USA Semester Credit (15 hours of learning) = 2 ECTS Credits (30 hours of study).
You may study any subject as an independent online continuing education course. More info...
Business in Industrial Countries
This course deals with the factors and conditions affecting business operations and behavior in developed countries. It covers topics on international integration, business relations among nation states and supranational systems, direct investment, and multinational activities.
Academic Supervisor: Charles R. Nichols
Industrial Production
This course of industrial production deals with how to optimize production and the importance of the industrial sector. Industrial goods are materials used in the production of other goods, while consumer goods are finished products that are sold to and used by consumers. All goods result from machinery, manufacturing plants, raw materials, and any other good or component used by an industrial production process.
Academic Supervisor: Wolf Dettmer
Product & Price Management
This course overviews company’s product portfolio management, including the task of product positioning, product development, product price, market development, brand diversification, and alternative strategies associated with the introduction, growth, maturity, and decline stages of the product life cycle. It shows the skills needed to become a successful product manager capable of dealing with all aspects of product and price management.
Academic Supervisor: Isabel del Rio Villar
Industrialized Countries Economy
This course explores the political and economic systems of advanced industrialized societies. It covers immigration, globalization, social movements, factors affecting business operations in developed countries, international integration, and multinational investment and activities.
Academic Supervisor: Nadège Noële Ango-Obiang
Retailing & Channels of Distribution
This course explains the structure of institutions in the channel of distribution, including retailers, wholesalers, and agent middlemen. It examines the organization and appraisal of middleman functions, including inventory and price policies, trade sales promotion, franchising, and other vertical marketing systems. It also focuses on areas in which retailers, wholesalers, and agent middlemen can maximize profit opportunities.
Academic Supervisor: Thiyagu Nagaraj
Operations Planning & Control
This course addresses the need for planning and control in operations management. It shows how to identify operations problems and how to use software tools and new technologies to implement solutions. Operations problems covered are demand forecasting, aggregate planning and scheduling, material requirements, just-in-time systems, facility location, inventory planning, and personnel scheduling.
Academic Supervisor: Wolf Dettmer
Supplier Quality Management
This course reviews supplier quality assurance principles and techniques while stressing on the methods to obtain quality products and services from suppliers. It discusses supplier evaluation and selection, communication of quality requirements, legal aspects, performance measurements, and solving supplied item quality problems.
Academic Supervisor: Ronald D. Fite
Production Strategy
This course shows the importance of production planning, control, and strategy in modern manufacturing organizations. It covers production and operations strategy, subjective and objective forecasting, inventory planning, and control. It also reviews Just-in-time Production (JIT), Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS), and Optimized Production Technology (OPT).
Academic Supervisor: Wolf Dettmer
Manufacturing Systems Integration
This course explains the need for the integration of manufacturing systems and deals with the multitude of their practical problems. The engineering details covered include the types of communication links available between systems, communication standards, and hardware platform alternatives. The management concepts discussed are namely the top-down design/bottom-up implementation approach to system integration, long-range planning and management of integration projects, security issues, and human factors.
Academic Supervisor: Wolf Dettmer
Total Quality Control
This course studies the quality management system of planning to meet customer needs, organizing resources, and involving employees in continuous improvement. It examines the quality control tools and philosophies that contribute to outgoing quality in the workplace. It finally covers strategic planning and process control management from different perspectives.
Academic Supervisor: Ronald D. Fite
Automation Management
This course presents an evolutionary process perspective on technology strategy, automation, and innovation. It covers managing innovation, technology life cycles, forecasting, and managing R&D, personnel, and projects. It teaches how to integrate technology and automation to further develop a firm's technological competencies and capabilities. It also covers current methods, tools, and associated equipment used for current industrial automated processes.
Academic Supervisor: Higinio Menendez Milanes
Supply Chain Management
This course focuses on the analysis and management of material and information flows throughout the supply chain; including aspects of product design and configuration, inventory modeling and planning, network configuration, and supply channel flow management and forecasting.
Academic Supervisor: Wolf Dettmer
Computer Integrated Manufacturing
This course explores manufacturing principles, metal cutting technology, and forms and methods of computer integrated manufacturing. It explains the planning, combination and design of machines, robots and control systems for handling equipment and manufacturing, and the integration of information, and material flow in manufacturing to develop a successful computer integrated manufacturing strategy.
Academic Supervisor: Wolf Dettmer
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Industrial Production Online via distance learning
Recommended Professional References.
Joining the proper association is the best way to become an updated professional.
Bircham International University graduates may join many professional associations. Membership requirements for each association may vary depending on the degree program, specialization and graduate resume en each occasion. BIU can not guarantee membership in all instances. BIU does not intermediate in these procedures. Bircham International University provides a list of available memberships and professional references from each faculty where some BIU graduates may belong. Contact directly the ones you select. More info...
ABIMAQ - Associação Brasileira da Indústria de Máquinas e Equipamentos
AFM - Advanced Manufacturing Technologies
AICP - Association of Independent Commercial Producers
AILA - Asociación de Industriales Latinoamericanos
AMCSTI - Réseau des Acteurs des Cultures Scientifique, Technique et Industrielle
AMT - Association for Manufacturing Technology
BEMA - British Engineering Manufacturers Association
FIM - Fédération des Industries Mécaniques
ICSID - International Council of Societies of Industrial Design
IDSA - Industrial Designers Society of America
IQS - Industrial Quick Search Directory
NAM - National Association of Manufacturers
SME - Society of Manufacturing Engineers
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Admission requirements - Industrial Production
Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
For official admission status at Bircham distance education university; you need to send in a filled out, dated, and signed official Application for Admission. You may download this application form from the website or request it by email or mail. Please send this application and enclosed documents to our address. You may also submit this application and attached documents by email in a PDF Format. More info...
Bircham International University issues an admission certificate after receiving your complete application for admission. This document will show the amount of credits transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete the distance learning degree program's major. Bircham University can not perform this evaluation without the complete application for admission. More info...
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METHOD OF INSTRUCTION: Distance Learning Higher Education
This distance learning education program is completed by a traditional correspondence instruction method. Once you sign up for the course, Bircham International University will send you (to your mailing address) the suggested textbooks. After reading the book, you will be asked to write a 20 to 35 pages report that reflect your understanding of the book. This report is equivalent to the exam and can be submitted by email or mail. Bircham International University will evaluate your written work. If passed, BIU will issue the corresponding diploma. For more instructions about BIU pedagogy, tutoring, and evaluation, please read our distance learning education study guide. More info...
Students enrolling into this distance education program should be aware that:
1. Location: Bircham International University needs a functional geographical location to ship the book and materials for successful completion of this program of study.
2. Communication: Email, courier, phone are key communication instruments with Bircham University that play an important role in the progress and support of this program of study.
3. Capacity: Any impediment, physical or psychological, to read a book and write a report must be communicated to Bircham International University prior to enrollment into this distance learning program.
4. Technology: No specific technology is required to complete this distance education program.
5. Language: Book reading and report writing in other language than English must be requested (and approved by BIU) prior to enrollment in any distance learning program.
6. Discrimination: There is no discrimination with respect to race, color, gender, beliefs or religion.
7. Age: Check the admission requirements for each distance education degree program. More info...
Duration - Industrial Production Online via distance learning
For a program of 21 credits, the estimated time for completion is 21 weeks. For 45 credits, the estimated time for completion will be 45 weeks, and so on. Calculations are approximate. The length of each distance learning degree program is calculated based on an average of 15 hours of learning per week. It also depends on the number of validated credits from previous knowledge and the level of commitment to the studies. More info...
All information related to the distance learning degree programs is in English, although you may, upon request and approval, submit the required assignments in other languages.
Recognition - Industrial Production Online via distance learning
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Faculty of Business & Media via distance learning
Industrial Production Online
Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
