Description

This eight-week, digitally delivered certification course is designed to educate consultants, advisors and innovation champions working with manufacturers on the CESMII Smart Manufacturing Acceleration Framework, the supporting toolkit, and prepare them to take the CESMII Certification exam. Supported by an expert mentor, you’ll engage with hands-on projects to assess sample organization’s current and desired future states along 6 critical areas of world-class manufacturers. Your capstone will be to develop a strategic Smart Manufacturing Roadmap encompassing all of the Acceleration Framework elements.

By successfully completing the course projects, deliverables, and accompanying certification test, you will develop knowledge and capabilities to ensure your future client engagements are successful and your work is consistent with SM principles and the SM roadmap process developed by CESMII. The course was designed in collaboration with CESMII, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and NxGen Group.

Technology & Logistics

You will complete all coursework remotely through Rensselaer’s digital classroom environment, with guidance and contextualized feedback from your mentor along the way. Synchronous sessions will be held via Zoom each week in the evenings, which will provide an opportunity to connect with your mentor and engage with the content in a live setting. The sessions will be recorded for those who cannot attend. In addition, your mentor will be available to provide one-on-one coaching throughout the course.

Prerequisites

This course and sitting for the CESMII Certification exam requires three years of experience as a consultant in manufacturing or five years working as a professional leading the implementations of integrated systems in a manufacturing organization.

Please note that by enrolling in this course, you agree to have your registration details (name, email, and referral source) shared with CESMII. 

Learning Goals

Completion of this course enables you to refine skills across these areas:

• CESMII’s Smart Manufacturing Acceleration Framework – the four- step process to develop the Smart Manufacturing Strategic Plan.
• Explore – the first step of the smart manufacturing acceleration framework meant to increase client exposure to smart manufacturing, its impact, and why it matters.
• Assess – the second step of the smart manufacturing acceleration framework, in which CESMII’s self-assessment survey and related analysis tools are used to establish the client organization’s current state of capabilities and competitiveness.
• Focus – the third step of the smart manufacturing acceleration framework meant to align the current state with a desired future state enable by SM mindset and tools.
• Roadmap - the fourth step of the smart manufacturing acceleration framework, in which a strategic (not tactical) roadmap is created in which business objectives are identified and the corresponding improvement areas and initiatives are articulated.