Production Engineering and Management (MSc)

The Master programme Production Engineering and Management aims to contribute with knowledge and understanding about competitive production in an industrial context. Graduates will increase their understanding in various strategies, as well as utilization of methods and tools for improving production responsiveness to changes in a business environment. In various courses management aspects are included to provide students with skills in leading production development aiming to improve a production system’s performance and efficiency as well as to increase the system’s flexibility and responsiveness to changes. Furthermore, the programme offers a holistic view and understanding of how various organizational functions need to be coordinated and integrated to achieve various goals associated with the development of new product and introduction of the new product in an existing or new production system. This includes, among others, aspects related to selection of technologies and methods, degrees of automation and flexibility, and maintenance preparation. Graduates will be highly skilled engineers with sustainable, innovative mindset for future development of complex and digitalized industry.