DIGITAL FACTORY AND OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE

Career perspectives with a Master's degree in Digital Factory and Operational Excellence

Be part of making the digital transformation a success! As a graduate of the Master's programme Digital Factory and Operational Excellence, you will qualify for this booming field. You can make full use of your will to optimize, your organizational talents, and the business and technological know-how you have acquired.

Your possible areas of operation are:

• Logistics and Production Manager
• Supply Chain Manager
• Lean Manager
• Industrial Engineering
• Management Consultant

What you can expect in this Master of Industrial Engineering

In the Industrial Engineering with Business Studies Master's degree programme Digital Factory and Operational Excellence, we teach you to view value chains from a business, IT and process perspective. In addition to optimization methods of lean production, the program also focuses on digital applications of factory planning.

In addition to business methods of work science, investment and decision theory, we teach you the basics of employment law. You will learn classic analysis and design methods, as well as digital tools for planning and optimizing production and logistics areas. And also gain insights into the digitalisation of the value chain during technology lectures.

This English-taught degree programme is rounded off by a focus on the specifics of international and intercultural project work.

Why study at a private university in Germany?

In this English-language Master's programme in Industrial Engineering at HDBW, you can expect small, international study groups that cooperate on an equal footing and in direct contact with excellent professors and lecturers with extensive operational experience.

At our University of Applied Sciences you can apply and deepen the knowledge you have acquired in study groups, while writing seminar papers and in giving presentations.

You also benefit from a very personal university atmosphere and specific support. As a result, you will achieve your study and career goals faster and more efficiently than in bigger and more anonymous institutions.

Voices on the Master in Industrial Engineering with Business Studies

"As a forward-looking and innovative company, we offer students on the master's degree courses in Cyber Security and Digital Factory and Operational Excellence the opportunity to combine their theoretical knowledge with our practical company content. We benefit greatly from the input and fresh ideas of the HDBW students. At the same time, we see this as an investment in the long-term retention of the skilled workers we need in our company."

 

"The close linking of digital web technologies as an interface to the customer with the most modern manufacturing processes allows us to produce exactly according to the customer's needs, starting with quantity 1. We print light, and for this we need bright minds that can build on an excellent education. We are glad to have found such a university partner in the HDBW."

 

Student Life at HDBW

Study atmosphere at HDBW Students in seminar room

HDBW Campus Munich Lecture hall

Student life at HDBW Campus Summer Party

Teaching atmosphere at HDBW Professor coaching students

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HDBW Campus Munich Coat of arms Hall

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HDBW Campus Munich Student lounge

Learning atmosphere HDBW Master students Seminar room

What study time models are available in the Master's programme Digital Factory and Operational Excellence?

This English-speaking Master's degree in industrial Engineering with Business Studies is offered both as full- and part-time programme.

Lectures take place in individual block weeks in presence on campus. Further modules are offered online either in the evenings, Fridays or on Saturday.

Industrial Engineering Master Full-time | Digital Factory and Operational Excellence

The state-recognized Master of Science degree Digital Factory and Operational Excellence can be completed as full-time study at HDBW in Munich. 

The practice-oriented lectures and seminars of this full-time Industrial Engineering Master's programme spread over 3 semesters:

1. Semester: Analysis and Planning
2. Semester: Management, Design and Optimisation
3. Semester: Strategy and Evaluation

Industrial Engineering Part-time Master | Digital Factory and Operational Excellence

The state-recognized Master of Science degree in Digital Factory and Operational Excellence can also be obtained at the HDBW as a part-time programme in Munich or Bamberg.

This involves hearing a reduced number of modules per semester. Some of these take place as block lectures or in the evening or at weekends during the part-time lecture period.

The practice-oriented courses of the part-time Master's programme are spread over a total of 5 semesters:

1. Semester: Analysis and planning
2. Semester: Management, design and optimization
3. Semester: Strategy and evaluation
4. Semester: Project planning
5. Semester: Master thesis

Qualification goals: Master Industrial Engineering with Business Studies

1. You know the components and action dimensions of factory design, planning and optimization.
2. You are familiar with classic analysis and design methods as well as digital tools for planning and optimizing production and logistics areas, such as programming, simulation, Industry 4.0.
3. You can develop strategies in the international production network as well as in supply chain management and evaluate them on the basis of key figures.
4. You can apply the methods of lean management / lean production as well as other management methods.
5. You know the business and legal basics of investment theory and employment law.
6. You know the terminology of business intelligence, big data and the associated information technology applications.
7. You will learn the specifics of international and intercultural project work.

Let us advise you personally!

Sara Zurek

Student Advisory Service

+49 89 4567845-11
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HDBW Professors and external lecturer in Master's degree: Digital Factory and Operational Excellence

Prof. Dr. Matthias Pfeffer

Faculty Engineering / Industrial Engineering with Business Studies
Program Director

+49 89 4567845-22
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Prof. Dominik Bösl

Faculty Business Informatics

+49 89 4567845-14
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Prof. Wolfgang Decker

Faculty Industrial Engineering with Business Studies

+49 89 4567845-34
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Prof. Dr. Markus Kleinschwärzer

Faculty Industrial Engineering with Business Studies

+49 89 4567845-12
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Prof. Dr. Sabine Rathmayer

Faculty Business Informatics
Programme Director & Vice President Research

+49 89 4567845-26
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