Global Education in Manufacturing GEM

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Global Education in ManufacturingGEM
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Global Education in Manufacturing

• GEM (International project - IMS)
• GEM-X (Regional project)
• GEM-AUSTRALIA
• GEM-EUROPE
• GEM-JAPAN
• GEM-USA

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Intelligent Manufacturing SystemsIMS

• International research collaboration covering
  several geographical regions
• International and regional secretariats
• Project endorsement
• Each region funds its own participation
• CCE Consortium Co-operation Agreement

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IMS Regions
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GEM GEM-X

• Common objectives
• Projects with same WP structure
• Inter-regionally coordinated
• Sharing of work
• Exchange of results

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GEM Objectives

• Define and understand the needs of the
  manufacturing industry for training and education
  in manufacturing strategy on a global basis to
  comply with the concept of digital business and
  extended products
• Develop detailed specifications for a
  manufacturing strategy curriculum focusing both
  manufacturing and business administration topics.
  This curriculum will provide a basis for a world
  standard. Selected modules will be tested in all
  IMS regions applying a modern IT-based delivery
  of training and education (web-based multimedia
  solutions).

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Digital Business - Extended Products
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The curriculum reflecting the new needs of the
industry

• Working with digital tools for communication
• Working in a multicultural environment
• Working in interdisciplinary, multi-skill teams
• Sharing of work tasks on a global and around the
  clock basis
• Working in an virtual environment

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Products

• A world standard curriculum in manufacturing
  strategy
• Training courses for industry aiming at updating
  the human capital employed in industry
• Education for a Masters degree in manufacturing
  strategy to be delivered by universities to
  students either on-campus or off-campus

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Overall Strategy for Approach

• Strong involvement of industry
• Acknowledge cultural differences
• Involve leading universities world-wide
• Wide coverage in each region
• Wide dissemination
• Meet future industrial needs
• Combine technology, business, management and
  entrepreneurship
• Use IT to deliver on the job training

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Measures of Success

• That the curriculum meets the needs of industry
  for content and time and place independent
  delivery
• That leading educational institutions adopts this
  as a standard curriculum
• That GEM obtains commitment from sufficient
  international IMS partners

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Partnership Structure
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GEM-EUROPE Partners
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GEM-EUROPE Partners cont.
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GEM-JAPAN Partners
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GEM-USA Partners
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GEM-AUSTRALIA Partners
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Role of Participants

• Partner
• Development work
• Academic associate
• Define needs
• Comment on curriculum
• Participate in demonstrators and workshops
• Industrial associate
• Secure industrial relevance
• Define needs
• Pilot testing of demonstrators
• Comment on curriculum and participate in
  workshops
• IFIP WG5.7 and other organisations
• Commenting and dissemination

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Learning Mechanisms

• Kolbian learning model
• Idea proposal
• Experiment preparation
• Experiment execution
• Result analysis
• Use of cases and best practices
• Mixture of classroom learning and e-learning
• Use of multimedia
• Web-based learning management system (LMS)

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Guiding Principles for Curriculum

• Ensure a focus on a learning environment rather
  than a teaching environment
• Highly focused on industrial needs with industry
  projects and ongoing involvement
• Prepare participants to serve in the new economy
  and to be change agents
• Award degree structures to participants based on
  industry needs as appropriate to each region and
  country
• Linkages to IMS projects for collaboration,
  expertise and case work as appropriate
• Ensure a viable business plan that shows
  sustainability and viability beyond the IMS
  project
• IMS accreditation of the degree
• Allow for multiple exit points for the student

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Curriculum Structure proposal
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Positioning of Academic Programme
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Workplan Structure
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GEM Results

• A set of best industry practices and cases suited
  for training in manufacturing strategy based on
  input from enterprises
• A survey of industry training and education needs
  in manufacturing strategy based on interviews
  input from all regions
• A survey of existing manufacturing engineering
  curricula
• A recommended pedagogic approach and delivery
  mechanism adapted to time and place independent
  training. The approach is verified through a
  demonstrator in project management delivered to
  companies in all regions

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GEM Results (continued)

• Specifications of a full international curriculum
  in manufacturing strategy published on a web-page
  and as a book including for each module a
  definition of
• Content defined as lecture topics for each
  lecture hour
• Text-books and other training material connected
  to each lecture
• Delivery mechanisms to industry and students for
  each course in each module
• Examination, grading and credit transfer for each
  course in each module

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GEM Results (continued)

• Demonstration and testing of selected modules (at
  a total of 5 full course days) at partners,
  agents, industrial associates and possibly others
  in all participating countries as well as an
  industrial evaluation of the experience
• An international industrial education workshop to
  confirm industrial needs and obtain support for a
  world standard for a manufacturing strategy
  curriculum
• Extensive dissemination activities including.
• External web-page
• Journal papers
• Conference papers

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Inter-regional management structure
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Inter-regional co-ordination

• Discuss interfaces and common approach
• Consolidate needs, results and experience from
  demonstrators
• Exchange and amend results
• Organise inter-regional workshops and training
  demonstrators
• Define standard for documentation
• Jointly disseminate results

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Regional responsibility

• Develop all results and documentation for their
  respective modules
• Develop demonstrators to test pedagogic approach
• Develop demonstrators for their modules to be
  tested in several IMS regions
• Exploitation and dissemination within their area
• Secure industrial relevance in their region

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Exploitation

• The universities involved will exploit the
  results by offering an updated engineering
  curriculum and applying modern pedagogic
  approaches based on the results from the project.
  
• The industrial partner will offer the developed
  software product for administration and delivery
  of training in the open market. In addition it
  sees an opportunity for a consultancy in this
  field.
• The research institute, often involved in change
  processes in industry on a consultancy basis,
  sees a business opportunity in offering short
  training courses.

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Product distribution

• The curriculum will be distributed free to all
  that have an interest. It will be available on
  GEM's homepage but will also be distributed to
  industry and via different networks and through
  the three tier structure
• The test modules and demonstrators developed will
  be marketed by institutes and SW-vendors in all
  regions as well as the universities towards
  industry as short training courses using distance
  learning.
• The universities involved will implement the
  curriculum in their education. The participating
  universities will develop the remaining modules
  in a joint co-operation and will co-operate to
  deliver a Master of manufacturing strategy based
  on distance learning and industrial co-operation.

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GEM information

• www.sintef.no/gem
• GEM_at_sintef.no