Campus Dingolfing: Sustainable Industrial Operations and Business

Knowledge:

• Overview of the important topics in electrical engineering
• Knowledge of the important terms and quantities of electrical
  engineering from the following four sub-areas: Direct current networks,
  electric fields, magnetic fields, alternating current networks
• Knowledge of the important formulae that relate the electrical
  engineering quantities to each other (e.g. Ohm's law).

Skills:

• Ability to analyse basic electrotechnical facts and express them
  quantitatively with the help of appropriate formulae
• Ability to check the plausibility of the calculation results with the help of
  qualitative estimation

Competences:

• In-depth understanding of the laws of electrical engineering
• Possibility of critical evaluation of statements on electrotechnical facts
• Possibility of further education and deepening in professional practice
  based on self-selected literature
• Contents − DC circuit
• Electric field
• Magnetic field
• Equalisation processes in the RC and RL circuits.
• AC circuit

Knowledge:

• Overview of the operational processes of industrial production of goods.
• Fundamentals of procurement and purchasing
• Knowledge of the fundamentals of manufacturing, of different production
  types and of basic manufacturing strategies
• Knowledge of production planning and control processes
• Basic knowledge of logistics: from transport systems to internal and
  cross-company integrating supply chains

Skills:

• Performing ABC analysis, BoM explosion
• Calculation of cost of purchasing and transportation costs
• Calculation of optimal lot sizes and through put time

Competences:

• Solve basic problems of manufacturing optimization
• Discuss adjustment decisions in practices

Contents Procurement:
Supplier management, make-or-buy decisions and sourcing strategies
Manufacturing:

• Types of production processes
• Concepts of production planning and control
• Production programme planning, material requirements planning, order scheduling and release and comparison of production control concepts

Logistics:

• Systems of transport, storage, handling and order-picking
• Procurement, production and distribution logistics
• Concepts of logistics: JIT, KANBAN, cross-docking etc.

Knowledge:

• to create and understand technical drawings,
• about the application possibilities of CAD systems,
• for the design of components,
• about important machine elements, their function and application,
• basic tasks, methods and procedures of product development.

Skills and competences:

• sketch components/assemblies and represent them in a technical drawing
  in accordance with standards,
• represent components/assemblies with the aid of a 3D CAD system and
  derive drawings and parts lists from them,
• select and design machine elements according to specifications,
• to work out solutions for practice-oriented, constructive tasks under
  consideration of the rules of force-flow-appropriate, material-appropriate,
  production-appropriate and assembly-appropriate design.

Contents Lessons and exercises:

• Tasks of design and development as well as their integration into the
  company processes and organization
• Technical drawing:
  Standardised representation, dimensioning and labelling; dimensional,
  shape and positional tolerances; fits; surface finishes; types of drawing;
  two- and three-sheet projection; cuts and unwindings.
• Machine elements:
  Structure and application guidelines of selected machine elements: Rolling bearings; Springs; Shafts/axles; Screws; Shaft-hub connections; Gears.
• Design:
  Solution finding; economic efficiency calculation; standard series; design
  suitable for force flow, material, production and assembly; influence of
  surfaces and fits.
• Design methodology and development process:
  Methodological procedures: V-model, simultaneous engineering, VDI
  2221; tools for target-oriented solution search: list of requirements, functi-
  onal/effective structures, morphological box.

The students know the basics of the technical-economic interrelationships of the energy industry, renewable energies as well as essential characteristics of each value creation stage.

• They are able to apply economic criteria in the procurement, transport and delivery of heat and electrical energy. Based on what they have learned, the students can work on case studies in a practical and interactive way.
• Cognition of boundary conditions, structures and processes of today's and the future energy industry with a focus on the electricity industry.

Contents:

• Fundamentals of the energy industry
• Generation and transport of electricity, load curves, delivery to industrial and end customers
• Structure and functioning of a liberalised electricity market, unbundling, regulation
• Power trading, EEX power exchange, Derivatives Market, Spot Market
• Contracts, pricing
• Energy law framework conditions, laws and regulations in Germany and the EU
• Promotion of renewable energies