Digital Facility Layout Planning University College Dublin

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.