Smart Manufacturing: Building Your Strategic Roadmap

Smart Manufacturing: Building Your Strategic Roadmap (TECH-620)

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Time to Complete: 16 - 21 hours, on average

Description

In this self-paced, digitally-delivered RPI ProCourse, you will work with an experienced practitioner-mentor to develop a strategic plan for implementing smart manufacturing within your organization. You’ll engage directly with CESMII’s Smart Manufacturing Acceleration Framework to assess your organization’s current state, develop an aligned future state vision, and create a roadmap to achieve your organization’s business objectives. You’ll exit the course with a comprehensive understanding and experience of roadmap development for your work setting, as well as a Certificate of Completion from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI).

Coursework

You’ll begin by exploring smart manufacturing capabilities, then utilize an assessment tool to solicit colleagues’ perspectives on your organization’s current state across six critical smart manufacturing areas. With your assessment results in-hand, you’ll conduct deep-dive interviews with stakeholders to investigate alignment and opportunities across each area, leading to the articulation of a desired future state. You’ll then build a strategic roadmap that defines business objectives for each critical area, programs and initiatives to support those objectives, and a realistic timeline to achieve the future state.

Technology & Logistics

You will complete all coursework in RPI's digital classroom environment, receiving personalized feedback from your Executive Mentor at every step. Access your course content on demand: anytime, anywhere.

Audience 

This non-credit course is designed for manufacturers seeking to initiate digital transformation within their organizations. Teams are welcome to attend for accelerated results. No prior education is required. 

Payment

Payment is accepted by credit card. Most employer tuition benefits also qualify for RPI ProCourses; please email procourses@rpi.edu for more information. Because this is a self-paced, non-credit course, all sales are final once the online course environment is accessed. No refunds will be issued thereafter. Please review the course description carefully before purchasing.

If you have any questions about the course prior to enrolling, please contact procourses@rpi.edu. 

Outcomes

Completion of this course enables you to:

• Develop a strategic plan focused on digital transformation in the supply chain to meet or exceed the goals and objectives identified by your organization.
• Leverage the six-step Smart Manufacturing Acceleration Framework process to prioritize high-value target areas and optimize people, processes, and technology to achieve your organization’s goals.
• Identify the benefits of smart manufacturing within the context of your organization, mapping technological capabilities to opportunities, needs, and culture.
• Utilize a self-assessment tool and state transition matrix to establish your organization’s current state across six critical smart manufacturing areas.
• Develop a future state vision that aligns employee insights, identified challenges, smart manufacturing-enabled possibilities, leadership investment, and other factors.
• Create a strategic roadmap that articulates, prioritizes, and schedules initiatives to support business objectives.