This course teaches modern technologies for transforming your industrial processes and driving values using digital tools & techniques.

Whether you’re a high school graduate exploring manufacturing careers, or an operations manager hungry for an understanding of the newest manufacturing technologies, this course will provide a foundation in how digital advances are changing the landscape and capabilities of factories. The contents of this course are developed with input from the manufacturing industry – touching on Industry 4.0 and its components, including digital manufacturing and design practices, the concept of smart factory, the Internet of Things, digital twin and data security.

This course is designed to expose you to the transformation taking place in the manufacturing industries all over the world, in the way that products are being designed and manufactured, happening through digital manufacturing and design (DM&D) – a drastic shift from paper-based processes to digital processes in the manufacturing industry. By the time you finish this course, you’ll understand what design manufacturing is and how it is impacting careers, practices and processes in companies both large and small.

You will gain insight into the role that technology is playing in this transition. The technology we use every day – whether it is communicating with friends and family, purchasing products or streaming entertainment – can benefit design and manufacturing, making companies and workers more competitive, agile and productive. You learn how this new approach to making products make companies more responsive to changes and employees more involved and engaged, as new career paths in advanced manufacturing evolve. Main concepts of this course will be delivered through various videos.

This course consists of FREE downloadable white papers and other resources for your personal and/or professional usage.