Course description
Improving Competitiveness Through Automation
Delivered by the MTC's Chief Engineer - Intelligent Automation, this course will provide you with the necessary tools, techniques and processes to evaluate the opportunity, develop the business case and deploy the implementation plan to integrate automation into your business.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
This course is for decision makers within a business who are considering or have been tasked with introducing automation into their businesses. Attendees will include senior engineers, project managers, finance teams or business owners of SMEs etc.
Training Course Content
This course takes you through the entire process of implementing automation within your business. During the course, you will:
- Review real life case studies of automation in use and identify the benefits realised
- Have peer-to-peer discussions will other course delegates to explore both the tangible and intangible benefits of implementing automation
- Working in groups to explore the various barriers to implementing automation and agreeing how best to overcome or mitigate them.
- Learn the techniques and key factors used to evaluate if automation is viable, then apply those techniques on industry based case studies
- Identify the various factors that need to be considered when performing a return-on-investment (ROI) analysis, then apply those factors within a business case
- Work through each step of the implementation process and practice using the associated tools and techniques within each step
- Gain a high-level appreciation of the various associated technologies, including: Robots; Sensors; Control Systems; Protocols; Fluid/Power; Safety etc.
- Gain hands on experience preforming simple robot programming and operation
- Gain an insight into the predicted developments of automation technologies and their future application
- As this course is designed to have limited group sizes, it enables participants to ‘ask the expert’ questions specific to their needs. Therefore, this provides a great opportunity to get exactly out of the course what you need.
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