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Nowadays, unforeseeable market changes and increasing competition mean that firms must be capable of adapting to different situations and make an ongoing effort towards a reduction of costs and an improvement in quality of the products offered and services provided. This means not only investments in products, production and information technologies, but also availability of motivated and qualified personnel, willing to change and constantly searching for opportunities of improvement. The Evening Course in Production Management, organised by the " Camillo Bussolati Centre ", aims to meet these needs by providing managerial staff who operate in the area of management production with modern training courses and as such is a unique opportunity for those who are involved in the day to day running of the company.  

The Evening Course in Production Management allows firms:

• To offer an important chance of training focused on developing individual potential to those managers who have shown commitment and affection for the firm,
• To provide managers with an incomplete vision with broad based training in order to understand the inter-functionality and the overall validity of different solutions to the problems they face.
• To develop aptitude for constant improvement and capability of directing efforts towards the attainment of expected results;
• To verify potential of the people to invest in.

Managers attending The Evening Course in Production Management have a unique opportunity :

• To widen and to complete their theoretical and practical qualifications in industrial production management;
• To test themselves and to compare their ideas and their ways of working with those of colleagues and experts operating in different contests.
• To make a qualitative leap in terms of the managerial and professional competencies they need to improve their career prospects in the company

The Course is open to participants sent by firms. To be enrolled, applicants must:

• hold a school leaving certificate
• have significant working experience
• be committed to studying

Several LIUC staff teach on the Evening Course in Production Management. In addition, many successful managers, entrepreneurs and professionals are invited to make an important contribution of their personal experiences in the field

The programme of the course is divided into three cycles whose main contents are the following: 

• Production planning related to the product and business strategy
• Production management impact on business profitability
• Productivity measure and control
• Measuring and controlling productivity
• Methodologies of production cost accounting for the decision-making process
• Production budget formulation
• Evaluation of actions for cost reduction

• The planning system as a leverage for service improvement
• Management of demand and forecast of sales
• Production planning
• Managing stocks and needs of production and purchase
• Production scheduling and work progress checking

• The measure of the quality of products, services and processes
• The quality system according to UNI EN ISO9000 standards
• Tools for quality improvement
• Processes of quality changing and improvement
• Methods for managing teams and projects
• New models for Total Quality Management

Teaching methods are the most important elements to keep motivation to study high among participants and to condition learning. Then, different active methods are used during the course in order to encourage active participation.

Studying business cases represents one of the most used methods, in order to put conceptual and operative tools shown during the Course into effect - reviewing existing situations within firms, contests of applications of several concepts and tools, causes of success and failure in applying new processes and new organisational methods. The particpants are thus able to verify validity and applicability to their own contest. As well as business cases, practices and simulations are used. Discussion of business cases directly presented by participants complete the most frequently used methodologies.

Teaching material often refers to firms belonging to different industrial sectors ( textiles, electronics, mechanics, chemicals, plastics etc. ) that characterise our area. 

Information about the Course can be obtained from the Course Secretary ( Dott.ssa Alda Acanfora) at:

Centro Camillo Bussolati
Dott.ssa Alda Acanfora
c/o LIUC - Libero Istituto Universitario Carlo Cattaneo
Corso Matteotti, 22 21053 - Castellanza (VA)
Tel : 0331/ 572.211;
Fax: 0331/572.260;
E-Mail: ccb@liuc.it

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