Operations Leadership in Food Manufacturing

• Hours: 56
• Credits: 4
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Understanding how equipment components work is a vital skill for those working with manufacturing equipment. This course will provide theoretical and hands-on practical experience in comprehending how sub-assemblies of the most common types of equipment work. Students will have the opportunity to disassemble and reassemble various components of equipment that will be found in any manufacturing environment.

• Hours: 28
• Credits: 2
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

In order for manufacturing companies to remain competitive, it is of vital importance to implement a prioritized continuous improvement program. This course will provide students with specific tools that can extremely effective in driving continuous improvement across all functions of an organization. Students will also be provided with effective methods to communicate with employees and with managers to gain support for the types of changes that result from continuous improvement implementations. Students will have an opportunity to identity appropriate tools to apply to various situations and to apply those tools effectively.

• Hours: 70
• Credits: 5
• Pre-Requisites: FOOD8121 OR FOOD8122
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Manufacturing companies’ processes are integrated between many business functions within an organization. Effective leaders know the roles of these functions, their goals, how they operate, what the challenges are, and how they relate to the other functions. Students will gain knowledge of that information in a typical manufacturing environment and will identify opportunities to improve cross-functional effectiveness.

• Hours: 28
• Credits: 2
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

This course provides the tools to manage and monitor the progress of complex projects across cross-functional teams of employees in multiple departments. The project management tools include clear definition of goals, outlining specific tasks and components, status reporting, the use of MS Project, and holding employees accountable for completion of project milestones. This managerial skill will help establish priorities and effectively manage projects to drive business results.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: $102.95

This course will address the need identified in industrial environments for increased awareness to hazardous situations and the resulting reduction of workplace injuries and accidents. Upon completion of this course, students will have an understanding of the obligations, rights and responsibilities of employees, supervisors/managers and employers and how to effect change in their future workplaces toward Health and Safety regulatory compliance. Students will have an understanding of how to respond to and record the legal, economical, technical, and personal dimensions associated with hazard awareness in industrial environments.

• Hours: 14
• Credits: 1
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

• Hours: 70
• Credits: 5
• Pre-Requisites:
• CoRequisites:
• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.