Online Course – Certified Professional Internship in Digital Technologies and the Future of Manufacturing by Google, University of Michigan

Advanced Digital Technologies in Manufacturing. Discover groundbreaking digital technologies in manufacturing and the business value they offer.

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Professional Certificate

Beginners

No prior knowledge required

Time to complete the course

7-day free trial

No unnecessary risks

Skills you will acquire in the course

  • Fundamentals of digital technologies
  • Productivity improvements
  • Quality improvements
  • Cycle time advantages in production and logistics
  • Business Situation Assessment
  • Providing recommendations to management
  • Business value analysis
  • Risk identification
  • Dealing with challenges
  • Project planning
  • Understanding impact on employees

What you will learn in the course

Courses for which the course is suitable

  • Technology Consultant
  • Project Manager
  • Logistics Manager
  • Production Manager
  • Management consultant
  • Business Analyst
  • Digital Technologies Specialist
  • Quality Manager
  • Productivity Manager
  • Organizational Change Manager

Internship – Series of 3 courses

Digital technologies are fundamentally changing every aspect of the value chain in manufacturing, logistics, and management consulting. In this course series, you will learn the basics of some of these unique technologies and their business uses, including productivity improvements, quality, and cycle time benefits in manufacturing and logistics. The challenges and risks for businesses will also be discussed.

The content presented in the series is based on a number of real interviews and real-life cases, and was developed in collaboration with Siemens.

Hands-on Learning Project

The course projects are based on cases of fictional companies facing production challenges or opportunities where digital technologies can be applied as relevant solutions. Learners will be asked to take on the role of a technology consultant, assess a company’s situation, and base their recommendations to the company’s management on what they have learned about a particular technology issue.

Given the business focus of the training courses, the project will challenge learners to consider:

  • Business value
  • Risks
  • Challenges
  • planning
  • Impact on employees

Details of the courses that make up the specialization

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)

Course 1
10 hours
4.5 (163 ratings)

Course Details

What do you expect to learn?

  • Understand the basics of IIoT, including its applications in manufacturing and business considerations for these technologies
  • Conversations with industry experts about the opportunities and challenges of implementing IIoT, in the form of interviews and case studies

Skills you will list

  • technology
  • Production process management
  • Business case
  • Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)

Digital twins

Course 2
9 hours
4.7 (74 ratings)

Course Details

What do you expect to learn?

  • Understand the basics of digital twins, digital twin platform and ecosystem
  • Learn about implementing digital twins in manufacturing, the corresponding business values, and the risks
  • Get to know the future trends of digital twins and digital threads

Skills you will list

  • Information technology infrastructure
  • business
  • Digital twins
  • Production process management

Additive manufacturing

Course 3
12 hours
4.7 (77 ratings)

Course Details

What do you expect to learn?

  • Understand the basics of additive manufacturing and industrial applications
  • Learn about business considerations surrounding the implementation of additive manufacturing

Skills you will list

  • business
  • 3D printing
  • Production ecosystem
  • Additive manufacturing
  • technology