Duration: One year
Language medium: English
Tuition method: Year Registration Periods
Target group:
Students with an existing national diploma in any engineering discipline NQF-6 qualification (except Industrial Engineering) who want to register for an Advanced Diploma in Industrial Engineering have to complete this programme first to assist them to reskill and divert their Engineering specialisation from other types of Engineering to that of Industrial Engineering.
Admission requirements:
A National Diploma in Engineering: Mechanical / Civil / Electrical /Chemical / Etc. / or other equivalent NQF-6 Engineering qualification.
Course leader details:
Prof N Ndou
Department of Industrial Engineering
Office: Block C 3-66, UNISA Florida Campus
Tel: 011 471 2560
E-mail: nndou@unisa.ac.za
Programme administrator:
Admin Officer
Unisa Centre for Lifelong Learning
360 Lillian Ngoyi Street, Pretoria Central
Solomon Mahlangu Building 2nd floor
Tel: 012 352 4288
Email address: UCL@unisa.ac.za
Application Link: www.unisa.ac.za/applyslp
Modules:
DEFACJO - Design of Facilities and Jobs (Module C)
Content:
Job design and work measurement
Facility layout
Facility location
Strategic chain strategy
Lean production
Forecasting
Basic ergonomics
IMPRSYS - Improving the System (Module F)
Content:
Applied Engineering Quality planning and management
Total quality management (TQM)
Operations consulting and reengineering
Synchronous manufacturing and theory of constraints
Business plan
ISO 9000 Quality Management Standards
Statistical Process Control
Applied Quality Control Tools
OPERMAN - Operations Management (Module A)
Content:
Lean Manufacturing / World Class Manufacturing
Six Sigma
Lean Six Sigma
Operation strategy and competitiveness
Financial accounting (balance sheet, income statement, depreciation, cash flow)
Financial ratio analysis
Cost accounting (fixed costs, variable costs, overhead costs, basic calculations)
PRDEAPS - Product Design and Process Selection (Module B)
Content:
Product design and process analysis, selection and design in manufacturing and service industries
Waiting line management
Process capability and statistical quality control
Fundamentals of statistics
Fundamentals of probability
Quality costs
OC curves
TSTRUTS - The Start-up of the System (Module D)
Content:
Project planning and control
Life cycle of project management
Functions of project management
Financial analysis of project.
Project financing and communications
Project implementation
Project risk management
TSYSISS - The System in Steady State (Module E)
Content:
Supply chain strategy
Demand management
Inventory control
Sales and operations planning
Material requirements planning
Operations scheduling