Manufacturing Directors Programme Brochure

Manufacturing Directors’ Programme

Manufacturing Directors’ Programme

No other programme does more to help you lead, shape and create sustained productivity, innovation, resilience and overall competitive advantage for your manufacturing business. The Manufacturing Directors’ Programme is Cranfield University’s flagship manufacturing course for senior managers and directors who have direct responsibility or influence over manufacturing strategy and business performance. Joint collaboration with Cranfield School of Management To our knowledge, it is the only manufacturing executive development programme in the UK that combines the prowess of leadership & strategy experts at Cranfield’s world leading management school with the industrial might of manufacturing doyens that Cranfield University is globally famed for.

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To book contact: Alison Cutland T: +44 (0)1234 754502 E: a.r.cutland@cranfield.ac.uk

For more information visit: www.cranfield.ac.uk/satm/ManDP

Approach This programme builds on your current strategic leadership and manufacturing competencies so that you better manage uncertainty and risk whilst driving the agenda for innovation and productivity improvements. • Diagnose your organisation’s manufacturing requirements • Build strategic manufacturing capabilities for competitive advantage • Develop personal leadership skills vital for leading your strategy • Harness technology trends and open innovation to ensure that you build leading edge manufacturing capability for your business.

What you will gain from this programme: • Understand the strengths and weaknesses of your current model. • Appreciate your personal strengths as a leader through a 360 degree feedback process. • Translate strategy into action. Gain awareness of recent advances in data insights for responsive execution. • Appreciate your personal leadership style. • Extend your skills to lead change through uncertainty.

Who is the programme for? • Directors, Senior Managers, Technical Directors and General Managers with direct responsibility for manufacturing and its operation. • Those in corporate positions who have an influence over manufacturing strategy. • Senior Managers responsible for Manufacturing Strategy who are independent decision makers.

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What your organisation will gain: • Evaluate investment decisions for flexible and responsive resource allocation under uncertainty. • Evaluate and understand the risks that are inherent in all the business decisions that you make. • Apply Open Innovation principles and tools aimed at maximising the returns of innovation by integrating customers and suppliers in the process. • Devise, develop, implement and lead agile manufacturing strategies for better performance.

• Apply success mapping to clarify objectives and gain commitment to action. • Use performance review tools to capture feedback, prioritise action and challenge strategy, allowing you to manage with measures.

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Programme structure The programme design allows you to learn and apply the latest in manufacturing leadership thinking to build your organisation’s capability. It’s an opportunity for you to step outside your business in order to put new insight and fresh impetus back in.

Module one Developing a manufacturing strategy Two days residential Module two Leading a manufacturing strategy Two days residential Module three Manufacturing strategy plan presentation One day

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Module details

Module one Developing a manufacturing strategy Strategy execution relies on incomplete assumptions and past experiences that may not always be applicable if you work in a fast changing environment. The consequence here is that you may ignore or not fully leverage the resources currently available. • Develop the leadership skills to translate strategy into action. • Learn strategy framework tools for building powerful business strategies. • Assess the impact of manufacturing strategy on business performance. • Connect manufacturing strategy with execution and agile resourcing.

Technology trends and open innovation

Technology is the key enabler for delivering productive and flexible operations as well as innovation in new products and processes. It requires closer integration with suppliers and customers. • Get in-depth awareness of the state-of-the-art manufacturing technologies that allow flexible and responsive manufacturing operations. • Discover Additive Manufacturing and how you can leverage the power of digital 3D design data to build innovative components. • Explore the use of Ultraprecision • Manufacturing to improve quality control, reduce costs and extend the lifetime of a product or a component. • Learn how to build Through-Life Engineering Services capability, so you increase the value you give to your customer and enjoy additional profits to your business for years to come.

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Module two Leading manufacturing strategy This module focuses on the tools to devise, develop, implement and lead agile manufacturing strategies so that you deliver better performance. • Ensure continuity in the face of unplanned events. • Apply success mapping to determine and clarify objectives • Enable your employees to commit to taking action so that you deliver a return on investment.

Module three Manufacturing strategy plan presentation

On the final day of module two you will present your improvement plan to your peers and Cranfield experts. From here you will receive constructive feedback on your proposal. The purpose of the Strategy Plan Presentation day is to provide a peer review of the final proposal and help sense-check the detail contained therein.

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Programme Directors Professor Harris Makatsoris CEng, FHEA – Programme Director Harris is Professor of Manufacturing Operations in the Sustainable Manufacturing Systems Centre. He has extensive expertise in manufacturing systems engineering and

operations optimisation and control. His research combines an experimental and a computational component and he leads a multidisciplinary team with a £7 million industry, EPSRC and EU research portfolio, that focuses on the process industry. Dr David Butcher Deputy Programme Director David’s career has spanned multi-national business, consultancy and university business schools. He has a wealth of international experience in both management practice and executive education.

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The Cranfield learning environment Our Executive Programmes are held at the Cranfield Management Development Centre. Taking care of your every need We understand that development doesn’t only happen in the lecture room. That is why the Cranfield Management Development Centre provides inviting lounge areas where you can network with your colleagues, restaurants that allow conversation to flow easily as you enjoy the excellent cuisine, and fitness facilities, including a swimming pool, sauna and exercise room, to relax and invigorate you at the end of the day. A home from home After a hard day’s learning, lie back and relax in one of the 186 modern en-suite bedrooms, all of which are designed to make you feel at home. The amenities include free Wi-Fi, Freeview television, a great working area with appropriate light and desk space and a music centre to help you unwind.

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Location

How to find us Cranfield University is located about halfway between London and Birmingham, and on the outskirts of Milton Keynes. Junctions 13 and 14 of the M1 are five minutes away and Milton Keynes railway station is 20 minutes by taxi. London Luton, Stansted and Heathrow airports are 30, 90 and 90 minutes respectively by car, offering superb connections.

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Cranfield Management Development Centre MK43 0AL, UK T: +44 (0)1234 754415 www.cranfield.ac.uk

This programme is provided by Cranfield Management Development Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cranfield University.

Every effort is made to ensure that the information in this leaflet is correct at the time it is printed. Please check www.cranfield.ac.uk/satm/ManDP for the latest details. Terms and conditions can be found at www.cranfield.ac.uk/som/executivetc

Version 5. March 2018

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