Innovation in Manufacturing Systems and Sustainability

Location:

Online

Schedule:

Self-paced

Course Summary

Instruction Time Completion Time CEUs
Innovation in Manufacturing Systems and Sustainability ~ 4-6 hours 60 days after start date 1

The Innovation in Manufacturing Systems and Sustainability course provides an overview of the changing paradigms of manufacturing in the context of industrial/technical revolutions, and how the industrial internet of things (IoT) will enable smart and personalized manufacturing. Sustainable manufacturing, life cycle assessment, eco-audit, and metrics for assessing manufacturing systems are also covered in detail.

Learning Objectives

  • Understand importance of manufacturing and today’s manufacturing environment
  • Learn past, present and emerging paradigms of manufacturing, including mass production and mass customization
  • Learn methods on product family design and approaches to product variety
  • Learn methods for manufacturing system configuration analysis
  • Synthesize principles of manufacturing systems
  • Learn definitions and necessary conditions for sustainable manufacturing
  • Learn about environmental areas of concern as they relate to manufacturing
  • Learn how to apply necessary conditions for sustainable manufacturing to additive manufacturing
  • Learn what life cycle assessment is and how it can be applied to manufacturing examples such as the use of lightweight materials
  • Learn what an eco-audit is and how to apply eco-audit to practical manufacturing examples
  • Learn metrics useful in sustainability assessment of manufacturing systems
  • Learn about examples of life cycle assessment and eco-audit applied to sustainable manufacturing processes and systems

Course Overview

Part I: Innovation in Manufacturing – Introduction

  • Industrial Revolutions and Paradigms of Manufacturing (68 min)
  • The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Big Data and Smart Manufacturing (18 min)
  • Personalized Manufacturing (13 min)
  • Summary (7 min)


Part II: Sustainable Manufacturing

  • Sustainability Introduction (30 min)
  • Carbon and Water Footprinting (44 min)
  • Methods for Life Cycle Material/Process Selection (32 min)
  • Sustainable Manufacturing Systems (37 min)
  • You will have access to this course for 60 days.
  • This course contains 6-7 hours of required recorded material and an associated testing assessment.

Successful completion requires you to receive an 80% passing grade on the course assessment.

 

There are no prerequisites for this course. A bachelor’s degree in a science, engineering, or technical field is recommended, but not required.

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Administrative/Online Technical Support
Support staff are available via phone and email to help with administrative and technical issues during our normal business hours (Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time). 

Content Questions/Certification Project Support
Candidates are welcome to contact the course instructors for content questions and project support. The instructors will provide support via email, phone consultation, and/or online videoconferencing.

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Instructional Team

Theodor Freiheit, PhD

  • Research Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering

Steven Skerlos, PhD

  • Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Mechanical Engineering

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