PhD in Management of Industrial Systems
Ostrava, Czech Republic
DURATION
4 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
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TUITION FEES
CZK 500 / per semester
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Introduction
The study program is based on a systemic, integrated concept of managing industrial activities and processes in market economy conditions. As a balanced interconnection of knowledge of industrial economics and management, advanced quality management and intelligent control systems with technical and technological knowledge, the study program is oriented mainly to production systems of the metallurgical, chemical and engineering industries.
Admissions
Curriculum
PVP A - technical (Choice-compulsory type B)
- Automatic Control Theory
- Automation of Industrial Aggregates
- Business Economics
- Computer-Aided Quality Management
- Control of industrial processes
- Corporate Controlling
- Design of Experiments
- Distributed Control Systems
- Economic Diagnostics of Industrial Enterprise
- Financial Accounting of Industrial Enterprise
- Financial Management in Industry
- Human Resource Management in Industry
- Human resources at quality management
- Industrial Marketing
- Industrial Supply Chain Management
- Industrial Technologies
- Management Accounting of Industrial Enterprise
- Management of Enterprise
- Managerial Decision Making
- Managerial Information Technologies
- Modelling of industrial processes
- Modern communication systems in the industry
- Operations Management
- Optimization
- Process Management
- Quality Management
- Quality Planning
- Reliability and Technical Diagnostics Theory
- Selected Methods of Industrial Statistics
- Software Engineering
- Strategic Management of the Business
- Technical means of automation
- Theory of Probability and Mathematical Statistics
PVP A - foreign language (Choice-compulsory type B)
- English Language Dr.
- French Language Dr.
- German Language Dr.
- Russian Language Dr.
- Spanish Language Dr.
Program Outcome
Study aims
The study program aims to equip students with a balanced knowledge of the principles, approaches, methods and tools of industrial management economics, the theory and methodology of integrated industrial management with technical and technological knowledge. The study is focused mainly on production systems of the metallurgical, chemical and engineering industries. The program covers the fields of economics and management of industrial systems, advanced quality management and intelligent control systems in industry.
Graduate's knowledge
- Management and managerial decision-making while respecting the economic, technical organizational and logistics specifics of metallurgical, chemical and engineering production. Reflection of integrated management theories, approaches and methods in real management processes.
- Managerial economics and its technical and technological specifics in industrial systems. Advanced tools of economic diagnostics of industrial business entities.
- Concepts, methods and tools of modern quality management and their application in production and non-production spheres. Special statistical methods of quality management. Advanced procedures for planning and improving quality and their application in various industries.
- Principles and procedures for integrating management theories, concepts and systems. Development and application of models of excellence in industrial organizations.
- Modelling and simulation of dynamic systems. Theory of optimal control and automation of technological processes. Projection and programming of information systems.
Graduate's skills
- Designing an industrial business and supply chain strategy. Management of the property and capital structure of a business entity. Innovation management. Evaluation, improvement and design of business processes in industrial sectors.
- Implementation and maintenance of quality management systems and integrated management systems. Application of system approach to solving problems in the field of products and process quality. Application of statistical methods. Evaluation of maturity of industrial organization management systems.
- Creative solutions to individual elements of control systems and their integration. Analysis, design and implementation of automatic regulation of technological processes using modern methodologies, measuring, control and computer systems.
- Forming and managing the work team. Argumentative evaluation of teamwork results.
- Pedagogical work based on professional knowledge and generalized experience of the graduate.
Graduate's general competence
- The ability of independent scientific research and independent creative activity in the field of industrial systems management.
- Ability to design and use advanced research practices in a way to extends the current state of knowledge at all levels of management of an industrial business entity.
- Self-decision-making ability in the business sphere - to work in a competitive environment of the globalized economy.
- Ability to understand and convincingly present their own economic and managerial skills and problem-solving practices to other members of the scientific community at the international level (at least in one world language) and the general public.
Hard skills
- Marketing
- Robot programming
- 2D design programmes
- Industrial engineering
- Quality management
- Accounting
- Accounting Act
- C#
- ERP system
- C++
- Knowledge of the basics of marketing activities
- Knowledge of data analysis
- Knowledge of quality monitoring and evaluation
- Basics of wage legislation
- Statistical methods
- Knowledge of industrial management methodology
- Demonstration of product conformity
- Programming of industrial PCs
- VAT Act
- Warehouse management
- Statistical methods of quality management
- Applied informatics and management
- Project management
- Methods and tools of quality management
- SW Matlab
- Calibration and verification of sensors
- Knowledge of metallurgical processes in metal production
- Knowledge of maintenance management
- Computer support for quality management
- Designing production systems
- Production organization and management
- Change management
- Procedures and methods of quality planning
- The human factor in quality management
- Organization management
- Quality management systems
- Production quality management
- SW 3D/CAD
- Knowledge of the theory of maintenance systems
- Basics of business law
- Design of analogue electronic circuits and their simulation (Pspice)
- Design of switching power supplies
- Tax system of the Czech Republic
- Management of production and pre-production processes
- Asynchronous generators
- Managerial knowledge
- AD/DA converters
- Quality control
- PCB design
- Knowledge of the IFS quality system
- Financial reporting
- Knowledge of automation
- Industrial automation
- Financial instruments
- Knowledge of battery systems
- Basics of labour law legislation
- Design of linear power supplies
- Budgeting
- Management methods
- Knowledge of mechanical engineering technologies
- Knowledge of the quality system ČSN EN ISO 9001
- Knowledge of signal processing methods
- Nondestructive testing - ultrasound
- Basics of spectral analyses
- Measurement of electrical and non-electrical quantities
- Programming of industrial PLC applications
- Income Tax Act
- Knowledge of management methods and techniques
- Knowledge of the basics of business economics
- Python programming language
- Integrated management systems
- Presentation and defense of work results
- Industrial logistics
- Knowledge of process improvement methods
- Mathematical methods and analyses
- Design of switching power supplies
- Business administration
- Knowledge of process optimization
- Low voltage
- Preparation of production
- Knowledge of technological processes
Career Opportunities
Graduate's employment
Management of industrial business activities at strategic and tactical levels, including employment in design and research institutions. Top managers of industrial enterprises, management representatives for technical and economic areas of industrial business, quality management systems and integrated management systems, information systems and technologies. Engineers and specialists in technical, economics, marketing, quality management departments, third-party conformity assessment bodies, departments related to modernization of automation-based technological and manufacturing processes, creation and use of computer networks, implementation and management of enterprise management and information systems.
Professions
- Scientific researcher for process control
Program Admission Requirements
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