Shorter product life cycles coupled with the increasing relevance of the circular economy, a globalized market environment with geopolitical uncertainties and more intensive innovation dynamics make it necessary to constantly adapt production processes. Production is constantly being optimized, which makes factory planning a continuous task. At the same time, factory planning is becoming increasingly difficult due to increased interdisciplinarity, complex regulatory requirements, discontinuities in the planning process and increasing networking and digitalization.
This poses a number of challenging questions for managers and production managers:
- What means can be used to plan or re-plan a factory?
- How should a factory planning project be organized?
- What methods are available in the individual planning phases?
- How can the ideal layout of a new factory be designed?
- How can optimal logistics and material provision be designed?
- How can existing processes be analyzed, continuously improved and digitalized?
- How can modern digital planning models of existing or new factory structures be created and used?
- How can you contribute to your company's sustainability goals with a green factory and set the course towards circular value creation?
The RWTH Aachen Campus Certificate Course Factory Planning answers these questions individually and practically. We support you with impulses and new approaches to expand your skills for building or optimizing your company's factories - from location to process planning. In addition, the intensive discussion with recognized experts and the exchange of experience with other production managers will complete your interdisciplinary toolbox for the integrated planning of the factory of the future. Our proven “Aachen Factory Planning Approach” provides the theoretical framework for this toolbox, which we combine with intensively supervised workshops (including in the Demonstration Factory Aachen) and innovative insights into industrial factory planning practice.
The RWTH Aachen Campus Certificate Course Factory Planning is designed as a blended learning format with a three-day web seminar and a follow-up face-to-face seminar in Aachen. The web seminar focuses on understanding the topics from a theoretical perspective and recognizing potential, while the classroom seminar focuses on the practical application of the topics.
Further information and the opportunity to register can be found on the event page.