Choose from a vareity of training programs to further your manufacturing career.
Fully online programs with instructor-moderated training in partnership with Ed2Go
Each training class is six weeks in length, four hours per week.
Manufacturing Fundamentals - $129
- Discover the role of production design and process planning
- Learn 13 different manufacturing processes
- Understand why facility location and plant layout decisions are so vital
- Learn how job design helps you accomplish company goals and achieve worker satisfaction
- Learn how to characterize different types of production materials
- Master important product development concepts
- Understand how performance measurements and standardization improve manufacturing operations.
Manufacturing Applications - $129
- Learn how to develop a manufacturing strategy
- Understand the purpose of customer demand forecasting and find out what forecasting methods are suitable for which situations
- Learn how to effectively use Gantt charts and the precedence diagram method for planning
- Discover the basics of lean manufacturing
- Understand the true meaning of productivity and how to improve it
- Discover how the application of Six Sigma, and statistical process control (SPC) increase customer satisfaction
- Learn about the elements of a logistics system, including warehousing and receiving
Computer Skills for the Workplace - $129
- Acquire the fundamental computer competencies needed to succeed in the workplace
- Understand how to use Windows 10 and Office 2016 effectively
- Discover how to create charts, presentations, word-processing documents, and more
Mastery's of Business Fundamentals - $135
- Discover how external and internal environmental factors affect an organization
- Learn about various organizational structures
- Understand how to use leadership, motivation, and control for maximum impact
- Learn how successful organizations use performance measurements to stay on track
- Master the fundamentals of accounting
- Learn the basics of financial planning and budgeting methods
- Gain an understanding of the basic principles of business law
- Learn about ethics and organizational politics
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence – $129
- Define artificial intelligence (AI)
- Describe the technological origins and general history of AI
- Learn ways AI can transform and disrupt certain industries
- Describe the relationship between humans and AI
- Differentiate between fictional and real-life applications of AI
Supply Chain - Purchasing Fundamentals - $135
- Negotiation, supplier sourcing and qualification, outsourcing, and make-or-buy analysis.
- Basics of supplier partnerships, capital budgeting, and green buying.
- How to define internal customer needs; generate purchase requisitions and purchase orders; expedite, trace, and receive supplier deliveries; maintain effective purchasing records; and create and manage various purchasing budgets.
- Business law, contracts, leasing, Six Sigma, and total quality management (TQM).
- How to recruit, select, and evaluate purchasing personnel, and the importance of business ethics
Supply Chain – Distribution and Logistics Management - $135
- Physical distribution, warehouse selection, material handling, packaging, order fulfillment, customer service, inventory management, receiving, production stores, and returned goods.
- Key technology issues such as enterprise resource planning (ERP), bar coding, electronic data interchange (EDI), electronic commerce (e-commerce), and distribution resource planning (DRP).
Supply Chain – Supply Chain Management Fundamentals - $135
- Developing long-range production, sales, and capacity plans and ending with planning, implementing, and controlling daily manufacturing schedules.
- Customer demand forecasting, master production scheduling (MPS), material requirements planning (MRP), capacity planning, and production activity control (PAC).