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Global Manufacturing Essentials

Learn Best Practices in Manufacturing Processes and Methods

Regardless of your current position and responsibilities, your role in this learning process is to act as an analyst of global manufacturing and quality excellence within your own company and of other companies, such as your competitors. Therefore, terms such as manager and leader are used interchangeably throughout this course.

The goal of this course, Global Manufacturing Essentials, is to increase your understanding of best practices in manufacturing processes and methods.

Why Should You Attend

By the completion of this course, you will be able to:

  • Recount key people and events that influenced the development of lean manufacturing processes and methods
  • Examine a philosophy and world-class production system, including key processes and best practices
  • Identify ways to enhance manufacturing for quality excellence 
  • Explain a major dilemma between operations and marketing
  • Examine the move from mass production to mass customization
  • Explore examples of customization
  • Create an action plan to enhance your knowledge and skills of global manufacturing

Program Format

Thunderbird offers independent-study programs featuring some of the same key benefits as our facilitated online programs including 24-hour access, a highly-interactive learning environment and Thunderbird-quality content.

The unique aspects of our self-study online programs include the following:

  • Learning is self-paced
  • Programs are one to three weeks in length
  • Participants spend approximately three hours per week engaged in learning
  • Upon confirmation of registration and payment you will receive access to the course materials for 90 days

Program Price

The cost of this online independent study program is $400.


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Contact Us

Joe Patterson
Assistant Vice President, Online Learning
execedonline@thunderbird.edu
Tel: (602) 978-7437
Fax: (602) 439-4851

Toll-free within the U.S.
Tel: (800) 457-6959
Fax: (800) 457-6982