About the Special Executive Masters Programme

The MSBM Special Executive Masters Programme is a short certificate training/seminar designed for anyone who would benefit from more in-depth business knowledge delivered in a short and intensive Programme. This programme is suitable for successful professionals or specialists in the private, public, or non-profit making sectors that have new management responsibilities and need to expand their management knowledge quickly.

The (SEMP) Programme serves as a refresher course for those who had their Master's Degree a long time ago and need a quick reminder or as an academic update while it serves as a crash Programme for those very experienced professionals who never made time out for their masters yet they require the academic and practical relevance of this masters’ experience. It is a good Programme for individuals who are newly promoted to managerial post, the program enables them to acclimatize to the new position as well as help them intake the right decisions.

 
Objectives

After attending this course, participants would be able to:

• Understand the production process and quality management process.
• Understand Quality management, Quality control and assurance, and Apply quality tools in the production process.
• Maintain and utilize the quality standards in the manufacturing and production process of the firm to get better outcomes. 
• Understand the importance of production and quality management process as a business focus. 
• Understand the working of practical businesses and approach to policy regarding quality control standards.
• Explain the role and impact of leadership to support quality management systems.
• Assess team dynamics and the role of teams to support continual improvement projects
• Compare the most used quality philosophies and tools and use the most appropriate ones to establish priorities within their organization
• Appraise the ethical commitment needed by quality professionals

Who should attend?

• Leaders, responsible for managing quality controls. 
• Professionals from businesses are most exposed to production and quality control shifts.
• Executives and Managers from any discipline who require a better understanding of Quality control standards and production processes. 
• Professionals and leaders, Supervisors, leading business associations and are engaged in management implication and improvement of organizational performance.

Modules:

Day 1: Understanding the Production and Process Quality Management:

• Cases of national and international manufacturing and quality standard management and success stories. 
• Legal framework for maintaining the quality standards of the manufacturing process.
• Components of the production function.
• Requirement of Product Design and Production Strategy: Product life cycle, product strategy, research and development, product design, design services, and organizing product development.
• Location, Layout, and Productivity of Manufacturing: Facilities location, facilities layout, work measurement, and individual and organizational productivity.
• Forecasting, Planning, and Scheduling of Production: Forecasting demand, planning production, scheduling production, economic order quantity model planning, and controlling projects.
• Purchasing and Inventory Management: MRP I, MRP II, the purchasing function, expediting, a standard purchasing system, just-in-time management system.

Day 2: Understanding key logistics for production and process quality management:

• Identifying and analyzing the quality process and manufacturing management issues. 
• Benefits and Drawbacks to Building Flexibility into the Manufacturing Process.
• Analyze the mix of Manufacturing Process Equipment: Special manufacturing processes, and CAM layouts.
• Function and Purpose of Existing Advanced Manufacturing Technology (AMT) Installations: How AMT improves manufacturing, ERP software.
• Process mapping and process management.
• Management elements and planning tools.
• Process auditing “Turtle Diagram”.
• Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA).

Day 3: Understanding the Quality Management:

• Understand The Concept of Quality Management: What is Quality, The concept of Quality Management in a business, The importance of quality within an organization, The theories of Quality Management, Quality Management Tools and Techniques.
• Understand the Embedding Quality Management: Teamwork in Quality Management, Training and development in Quality Management, Embedding quality management into the culture of an organization, Promoting continuous quality improvement within an organization’s culture.
• Learn the Systems that Support Quality Management: Monitoring Quality Management, Controlling Quality Management, and Evaluating quality standards that support Quality Management.

Day 4: Cases in Public Policy Management:

• This unit introduces and discusses a case study of production and Quality process management.

Day 5: Leadership and management in the production and quality and Cause-based Business Nurturing:

• Understanding the relationship between business outcomes and Leadership management.
• Role of leadership in supporting quality management systems.
• Understand Situational leadership in quality.
• The Relationship between Management and Leadership.
• The Enterprise Culture and the Characteristics of Different Entrepreneurs.