Value Creation Management

Value Creation Management deals with the optimization of internal and cross-company value chains. Comprehensive operational improvement programs play a central role here. The concepts of Total Productive Management (TPM), Lean Management, Kaizen and Six Sigma have attracted particular attention and are widely used. All these programs - albeit with different roots and different focus - have the goal of reducing losses in production and administration in order to increase the share of value added. They are generally regarded as the most important concepts on the path to operational excellence.

Content and Structure of the Program

The part-time Bachelor programme is divided into 11 semesters in order to offer working students the opportunity to combine work, study and family life.

Basic modules

The course itself contains 19 basic modules, which are divided into 5 compulsory modules and 2 optional module blocks. A total of 7 elective modules are to be selected. Professionally qualified persons, such as master craftsmen, technicians and technical business economists, who have already acquired competences and skills during their training, can be credited with the basic modules via defined credit procedures. In addition, the practical semester can be dispensed with for this target group after the submission of corresponding proofs. Participants without credit possibilities can complete the basic modules in the first year comfortably in the remote study over the virtual university of Bavaria, before you enter then into the structure modules.

Advanced modules

All fundamental aspects of value creation management are dealt with in 16 advanced modules. In particular philosophies such as TPM, Lean, Kaizen and Six Sigma are in the foreground, but also accompanying topics such as change management and methodical competencies are taught.

In-depth modules

In 8 in-depth modules including bachelor thesis and practical study semester, far-reaching interrelationships across the entire value-added chain and all special topics from the various corporate divisions are taught.

The teaching methodology is tailored to the needs of professionals!

The entire study expenditure is divided into three areas. On the one hand, the attendance times, i.e. lectures, workshops and practical exercises in the training factory. This effort is reduced to a minimum of approx. 20-30 % of the total expenditure, so that the participants are not too long away from the workplace. A compensation is created by shifting part of the study expenditure to the company. In concrete terms, this means that the in-depth study takes place within the company, especially in the case of method-oriented modules. In the lecture blocks at the university, project tasks are defined, which are then developed by the student in the company.

The results of the projects are simultaneously incorporated into the examination performance. The expenditure in the enterprise and by the self-study amount to altogether approx. 70-80% of the total expenditure. Thus the participant can divide and organize the largest portion of time for the study, and become so also the requirements in the vocational everyday life fair best.

With regard to attendance studies, the study and lecture plan is ideally suited to participants with a national interest in studying at Ansbach University of Applied Sciences.

There are three block courses per semester, divided over the semester period.  As a rule, each block takes place from Wednesday to Saturday all day, i.e. 9 working days and 3 Saturdays per semester, plus one Saturday reserved for examinations.

Each semester normally consists of four modules. One to two modules are completed per block.  The participants are located in your company between the individual blocks. During this time it is possible to carry out the study-specific projects in the company. The corresponding cooperation agreement regulates this. The times of self-study are determined by the participant himself.

Cooperation between companies and universities

The part-time course of studies Value Added Management is carried out in close cooperation with the industrial partners. The industrial partners are usually companies in which the students are employed during their studies. The study concept is based on three recipes for success. On the one hand, there is the theoretical knowledge transfer by experienced professors and lecturers within the framework of attendance times at the university and in the training factory of the CETPM. Furthermore, the students supplement their knowledge with appropriate self-study periods, supported by e-learning content. An essential and new element of the course is the integration of industrial companies. There, corresponding study projects are carried out to deepen the knowledge content. These projects are determined in cooperation with the companies and carried out by the students on site. In order to ensure the successful completion of the course for the graduates and for the quick and lasting benefit of the industrial partners, the university concludes a corresponding cooperation agreement with the participating companies before the start of the course.

Essential contents of the cooperation agreement:

• The Ansbach University of Applied Sciences undertakes to properly carry out the study programme in accordance with the study and examination regulations for the study programme.
• The industrial partner undertakes to employ the students in the company in such a way that they can work out and deepen the practical training contents and projects of the study in the individual modules. The corresponding time expenditure is defined in the curriculum depending on the module.

Cooperation agreement (German)

Qualified employees are qualified, i.e. graduates of the master craftsman examination (e.g. industrial foreman) or an equivalent advanced training examination as well as graduates of technical schools and academies (e.g. technicians, business economists) and persons with at least two years of vocational training and subsequent at least three years of professional experience, in each case in a field related to the course of study or persons with a general higher education entrance qualification or technical college entrance qualification. In addition, proof of a completed vocational training in the technical-industrial or commercial area is required.

Consultation

Due to the special requirements of the value-added management course of study, each applicant is interviewed in detail. Among other things, the talents specific to the course of study such as process-oriented thinking and the understanding of continuous improvement are clarified here. This discussion serves in particular to clarify the study expenditure, to point to the private and vocational basic conditions, in order to secure so the study success.

Recognition of already existing competences

For those with vocational qualifications and for university graduates, there is the possibility of crediting existing competences that are already available and verifiable within the framework of vocational education and training. On the one hand, the practical semester and, under certain conditions, the basic modules can be credited. This reduces the duration of study from ten semesters to up to six semesters, i.e. three years.