Łódź, Poland

Smart Manufacturing and Management

Master's
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⇑Smart Manufacturing and Management at PŁ

Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: engineering and engineering trades
Kind of studies: full-time studies
University website: www.p.lodz.pl/en

⇑Test: Is Smart Manufacturing and Management the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. On a placement at a manufacturing plant, you notice one line keeps grinding to a halt because of breakdowns. What do you do?

2. Your company wants to introduce a digital twin of its production line. Which role in the project would you pick?

3. Experienced operators are worried that automation will cost them their jobs. How do you handle it?

4. Lectures, projects and reading on Industry 4.0 will all be in English, and your project team may include engineers and managers from several countries. How do you see that?

5. You’re asked to compare two production management systems for a plant. What do you look at?

6. How do you feel about analysing machine sensor data?

7. What experience are you bringing from your first degree or from work?

8. Commissioning of a new collaborative robot is running several weeks late. What do you do as project coordinator?

9. Where do you see yourself after your Master’s?

10. What motivates you most to pursue a Master’s degree in Smart Manufacturing and Management?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Management
Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a not-for-profit organization, or government body. Management includes the activities of setting the strategy of an organization and coordinating the efforts of its employees (or of volunteers) to accomplish its objectives through the application of available resources, such as financial, natural, technological, and human resources. The term "management" may also refer to those people who manage an organization.
Manufacturing
Manufacturing is the production of merchandise for use or sale using labour and machines, tools, chemical and biological processing, or formulation. The term may refer to a range of human activity, from handicraft to high tech, but is most commonly applied to industrial production, in which raw materials are transformed into finished goods on a large scale. Such finished goods may be sold to other manufacturers for the production of other, more complex products, such as aircraft, household appliances, furniture, sports equipment or automobiles, or sold to wholesalers, who in turn sell them to retailers, who then sell them to end users and consumers.
Management
Mission is at the heart of what you do as a team. Goals are merely steps to its achievement. Mission has an eternal quality. Goals are time bound and once achieved, are replaced by others.
Patrick Dixon (2005) Building a Better Business - the key to management, marketing and motivation. p. 66
Manufacturing
We went through one of the big automobile factories to-day.... The foundry interested me particularly. The heat was terrific. The men seemed weary. Here manual labour is a drudgery and toil is slavery. The men cannot possibly find any satisfaction in their work. They simply work to make a living. Their sweat and their dull pain are part of the price paid for the fine cars we all run. And most of us run the cars without knowing what price is being paid for them.... We are all responsible. We all want the things which the factory produces and none of us is sensitive enough to care how much in human values the efficiency of the modern factory costs.
Reinhold Niebuhr, Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic pp. 79–80
Manufacturing
A wide market awaited the manufacturer of food products who would set purity and quality above everything else in their preparation.
Attributed to Henry J. Heinz in: J. N. Garfunkle (1910), The American Pure Food and Health Journal. Vol. 2 p. xxxviii
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