Production and Management
Managers and successors wanted! Especially in small and mid-sized companies, there is a great need for managers who can offer both technological expertise and management competence. We bring both of these areas together for you in this master's program, with practical and well-developed content.
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A Degree Program with a Future
You can also complete this degree program while working through a self-organized program. This will extend your length of study.
Bachelor’s degree with 210 credits in the areas of Innovative Production Systems, Industrial Engineering, Digital Engineering, or bachelor’s degrees with equivalent competencies. Admission is also possible if the student has an additional 30 credits in examinations or through a practical semester, in addition to the 180 credits gained in the (six-semester) bachelor’s degree program. Students can either bring these 30 credits from their bachelor’s program or gain them during the master’s program. The examination committee will decide on these additional credits after the student is registered.
1. Semester
- Applied mathematics
- Academic internship
2. Semester
- English
- Academic internship
3. Semester
- Master's thesis
- Colloquium
Focus area
Mandatory elective module in management group
- Innovation management
- Accounting and finance
- Global production
- Business law
- Data analytics
- Sustainable development of wood technology Processes
- Human resources
- Data Structure for Production Technology
- Strategic Management
Mandatory elective module in production and materials group
- Tool and mold construction processes
- Precision processing / technological optimization
- Non-destructive material testing
- Innovative material concepts
- Special plastic processing procedures
- Laser material processing
- Industrial wood surface coatings
- Structure and Processes of Logistics
- Process stabilization
- Automated Complex Installations
- Advanced Production Technologies and Optimization
- Rapid Development and Technologies
One particular strength of our degree program is its modern technical focus against the backdrop of digitization and sustainability in two mandatory elective module areas. In order to customize your studies, you can select from different modules for each of these areas.
Production and materials: Modern production technologies and materials are presented, with advanced knowledge.
Management: Knowledge from the areas of business administration, law, innovation management, HR, data analysis and processing, and strategic management is important for handling strategic issues in companies, general management, and personnel management positions.
As a graduate of the master’s program, you will be qualified to perform management duties in small and mid-sized companies. Students enjoy career prospects in the following areas in the medium term:
- Technical management and overall management in mid-sized companies
- Management positions in large companies and public institutions (such as operational management, production management, corporate planning, product planning, organizational development, and project coordination)
- Management of research and development units
- Corporate advising
- Corporate founding
Numerous cooperations with standardization bodies (such as DIN, VDI, VDMA) and associations as well as relevant companies in the industry.
Production and wood engineering departmental research covers the entire supply chain of an industrial company – from market research to development, design, purchasing, work preparations, manufacturing, logistics, and sales, to name just a few research areas.
Topics: Production engineering, wood engineering, industrial engineering, and digital engineering.
... the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations
- directly to decent work and economic growth
- directly to industry, innovation and infrastructure
- directly to responsible consumption and production
Studying at Innovation Campus Lemgo
At the Innovation Campus in Lemgo, you will study at one of the most exciting technology locations in NRW. Here you will find state-of-the-art laboratories and teaching rooms as well as science-to-business factories. For example, the Centrum Industrial IT, in which companies from all over East Westphalia-Lippe (OWL) have their branches. Or the Smart Factory OWL, which showcases data and AI management. In the Future Food Factory OWL, which is unique in Europe, something similar is happening in relation to food production. New work and transfer meet at InnovationSPIN. Here, TH OWL, the district administration and the skilled trades demonstrate transparent cooperation and a spirit that allows new things to emerge. In addition to Fraunhofer IOSB-INA, the campus is also home to two vocational schools and the national handball league team TBV Lemgo-Lippe. And best of all, the campus also has student residence halls with short distances to the university and the city.
Information
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Still unanswered questions?
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Phone: +49 5261 702 2534
E-mail: studierendenservice(at)th-owl.de
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