Overview

The digitalisation of manufacturing activities goes hand in hand with improved management practices and corporate performance but a vast majority of the engineering and manufacturing workforce lacks the necessary digital skills. This Professional Certificate is an opportunity for academic / technological institutions and companies to upskill students and staff towards expanding their digital manufacturing capabilities.

Learning outcome

Upon completion of this Digital Facility Layout Planning programme from University College Dublin the learners will be able to:

Upskill their digital hands-on capabilities.
Design layouts within facilities i.e design and configure manufacturing processes within a facility for optimum performance
Develop digital techniques to get new manufacturing cells up and running

Plan and design realistic productive layouts using the collaborative decision support system.

Career

The short-term advantage of this Professional Certificate will be educating the current and future manufacturing workforce to design/redesign manufacturing facilities. Utilising such a digital decision support system will result in constantly reducing product development lead times, engineering and manufacturing costs, while improving production performance, product quality and eventual customer satisfaction.

In the long term, participating in this Professional Certificate will increase the digital capabilities of the manufacturing workforce, in line with Industry 4.0 strategies, making learners a quite attractive candidate for manufacturing job market.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Digital Facility Layout Planning and Optimisation
Practical Case Application

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 9 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2025-09-09 00:00:00

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More details

Applications are assessed on a rolling basis and courses will close once they are filled.

Language

English

TOEFL^® IBT

90

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Credits

10 alternative credits

Delivered

Online

Campus Location

Dublin, Ireland

Disciplines

Engineering Management Digital Media View 5 other Masters in Digital Media in Ireland

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Academic requirements

GPA

Upper Second Class

English requirements

TOEFL^® IBT

90

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Other requirements

General requirements

The normal requirement is a recognised bachelor’s degree at second class honours, grade one (2:1), or equivalent. Applicants should check the programme specific requirements as some degrees may require a higher standard for entry. For applicants who do not have the required minimum academic entry standard, a year-long qualifying course, such as a Higher or Graduate Diploma, may be available in some cases.

Tuition Fee

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International

2100 EUR/full

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 210 EUR per credit during 9 months.
National

1260 EUR/full

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 126 EUR per credit during 9 months.

The displayed fees are for 2024. Fees for 2025 will be updated soon.

Funding

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