Manufacturing & Operational Excellence

In today’s competitive and dynamic manufacturing landscape, excellence in operations is no longer optional; it’s a strategic imperative. The three-day Program on Manufacturing and Operational Excellence is a specially curated course designed to equip industry leaders and practitioners with the tools, insights, and strategic initiatives needed to transform their operations and create sustainable value. The program shall help practitioners to think from a world-class operations perspective and then align their operations decisions with the business goals to enhance competitiveness and customer satisfaction. 

The course Pedagogy will help participants to understand the operations decisionmaking process from a strategic perspective. The program will also discuss data-driven decision-making, process optimization, and predictive capabilities through machine learning to enable real-time visibility in reducing waste (downtime, movement, defects, inventory) and supporting continuous improvement to promote lean, agile, and datainformed operations to achieve Operational Excellence. Thus, this program bridges the gap between traditional manufacturing practices and digital transformation, empowering professionals to lead organizational operational excellence initiatives. The hands-on session will further enhance the understanding and confidence for operational excellence. 

Objectives:

    • Enhance Strategic Thinking: Equip industry executives with a strategic approach to align operational goals with the overall business objectives.
    • Promote Operational Efficiency: Enable participants to identify and implement best practices for optimizing quality, efficiency, and effectiveness and, hence, an organization's competitiveness.
    • Drive Driven Decision Making: Foster the ability to apply emerging tools and technologies for waste elimination and better decision making.
    • A hands-on session with tools like Flexsim, Anylogistix, Excel, Matlab, And Python for better insights into decision-making tools.

     

Day 1: Concept and need of Operations Strategy, Aligning operations with strategy. The concept of world-class operations and its management, operations improvement through Industrial Engineering tools and techniques like Muda, bottleneck analysis, SMED, OEE, Standardized Work, Takt Time, small batch size, methods improvement, and work measurement. Process analysis with cycle time, takt time, bottleneck, capacity, and throughput.

 

Day 2: Overview of Quality Management Systems, digitalization of quality processes, Statistical Quality Control and data analytics, data visualization dashboards for shopfloor decision-making, evolution from classical TPM to digital TPM, IoT-based predictive maintenance, Six Sigma tools and DMAIC, machine learning-based quality control, agile manufacturing, and benchmarking for operational excellence and best practice.

 

Day 3: Factory Analytics: Time Series Analysis - Machine performance; Machine Learning: Predictive maintenance forecasting; Remaining useful life (RUL); analyzing Man-machine movement. Factory Simulations and Digital Twins: Manufacturing process simulations

Target Participants:

This program is designed for mid- to senior-level professionals and decision-makers in manufacturing and operations responsible for driving performance and continuous improvement across their organizations. These include Plant Managers / Factory Heads, Operations and Production Managers, Supply Chain and Logistics Managers, Quality Engineers, Industrial Engineers, and Process Engineers.  The program particularly benefits professionals from the automotive, engineering, consumer goods, electronics, aerospace, pharmaceuticals, textiles, and discrete/process manufacturing sectors, as well as service manufacturing sectors.

1. Registration fees include the following:

For all the participants:

  • Classroom sessions
  • Reading material
  • Registration kit
  • Internet and Library access
  • Hard Copy Certificate for Course Completion at the end of the programme

Residential participants:

  • Single occupancy AC rooms in the MDP hostel
    Check-in and check-out time: The earliest check-in time 3.00 pm (one day before program commencement
    The latest checkout time is 10.00 am (one day after program completion)
  • Tea, breakfast, Lunch, dinner in working hrs.

Non Residential participants:

    • Breakfast, Working Lunch, tea & snacks

      Registration Terms & Conditions:

      A. Upon payment of program fees registrations are tentatively confirmed. The final confirmation on the commencement of the program shall be communicated latest 2 weeks before (offline program) & 1 week before (online program) for the scheduled start date of the program.
      B. Refund policy
      Fees once paid can be adjusted up to 1 financial year against future nominations only. In case a course is canceled on account of inadequate participation or any other unforeseeable reasons, the participants will be informed of the cancellation by e-mail or Fax and the fee will be refunded. IIM Mumbai will not be liable for any other expenses incurred by the company or the participant. Any transaction fee will not be refunded.
      C. IIM Mumbai is not responsible for any other expenses borne by the participants due to rescheduling/cancellation of its MDPs.

      2. Individual Registration

      If you wish to register & make payment, please click here Register

      3. Company-sponsored / Bulk Registration:

      • In the case of company-sponsored candidates, please share the nomination list and GST details to program@iimmumbai.ac.in for invoice generation.

        Download the INVOICE DETAILS FORM

      • Note: Discount is applicable for 5 or more participants from same organization against invoice.

Course Details

Mode Offline / IIM Mumbai Campus (Offline)
Duration 18 Hrs.
Programme Dates Feb 23, 2026 to Feb 25, 2026
Program Chair Prof. Milind Akarte, Prof. Vijaya Kumar Manupati, Prof. Veepan Kumar
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