Course Tag: path5

P5-C3: Rethinking the work, job crafting, and virtual lean teams

Course 3: Rethinking the work, job crafting, and virtual lean teams

Course agenda

In this course, you will find:

  • Designing the virtual workspace and processes
  • Establishing team accountability and regular reporting cycles
  • Engaging and empower virtual teams
  • Flexible teams with members from different organizations
  • Cases and best used tools

Organizational info:

  • This course contains 5 lessons.
  • Lessons include written content, case studies, downloadable materials.
  • To complete this course, you need 80 minutes.
  • You can pause the course anytime and return to where you finished whenever you want.
  • You can follow the course as it flows or at your own pace, rearranging the order of the lessons.
  • At the end of the course, you will take a test containing 8 questions. 
  • You can take the test 2 times, if necessary. 
  • You must score min. 85% of the correct answers to receive the official certificate of completion.

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Participants’ Pains

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Many participants for example from companies and small entrepreneurs did not know the benefits and challenges of virtual teams with members from different organizations, discuss how to engage and empower remote teams based on Lean leadership principles, rethink work practices for virtual teams, implement practices for high-performing virtual teams, and highlight key considerations for leading effectively in a virtual working environment.

Participants involved in business organizations must continue to navigate the complexities of the digital transformation, rethinking the work and implementing job crafting techniques becomes increasingly important. It is fundamental to explain that virtual lean teams can be very useful and a popular way of accomplishing tasks quickly and efficiently, with technology making remote work more accessible than ever before.

Many participants may encounter difficulties to adopt in their organization new digital working models. One of the main benefits of virtual teams is the ability to bring together individuals from different organizations and locations, allowing for a wider pool of talent and diverse perspectives. This can lead to increased creativity, innovation, and problem-solving capabilities. Managers should also consider implementing tools and technologies that facilitate communication and collaboration among team members. In addition, regular check-ins and feedback sessions can help to ensure that all team members are aligned and working towards common goals.

Participants’ Gains

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Participants will understand how the effective engagement and empowerment of remote teams is essential to achieving optimal results. Lean management principles can provide a framework for achieving this. These principles include creating a culture of continuous improvement, empowering team members to make decisions, and fostering collaboration and communication among team members.

Participants will discover how rethinking work practices is essential to effectively managing virtual teams. This includes reevaluating traditional work practices and adapting them to fit the unique needs of remote teams. Participants will comprise how it is also important to establish a culture of trust and accountability, where team members feel comfortable sharing their thoughts and ideas and are held responsible for meeting their goals. Managers should consider implementing flexible work schedules and providing the necessary tools and resources to enable remote work. Additionally, managers should establish clear communication channels and guidelines for remote work, including expectations for response times and availability.

Participants will gain a comprehensive overview of the principles of implementing practices for high-performing virtual teams is crucial to achieving success. This includes establishing clear roles and responsibilities, providing regular feedback and recognition, and fostering a culture of collaboration and accountability. To achieve this, managers should set clear expectations and goals for team members, establish regular check-ins, and feedback sessions, and provide the necessary resources and support to help team members achieve their goals. Participants will discover also how leading effectively in a virtual working environment requires careful consideration of several key factors. One of the most important considerations is communication, which is often more challenging in a remote setting. Managers should establish clear communication channels and guidelines, including expectations for response times and availability, to ensure that team members are aligned and working towards common goals.

P5-C2: Virtual and augmented reality

Course 2: Virtual and augmented reality

Course agenda

In this course, you will find:

  • Organizational advantages of virtual reality, augmented reality and gamification.
  • Metaverse digital engagement and advantages.
  • Enhancement of working skills and better workers interactions needs.
  • Virtual computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided manufacturing (CAM).
  • 3D models for manufacturing production and malfunctioning alerts.
  • Cases of augmented reality (AR) and immersive virtual reality (VR 360°) for digital simulation of real based working situations and risks.

Organizational info:

  • This course contains 5 lessons.
  • Lessons include written content, case studies, downloadable materials.
  • To complete this course, you need 80 minutes.
  • You can pause the course anytime and return to where you finished whenever you want.
  • You can follow the course as it flows or at your own pace, rearranging the order of the lessons.
  • At the end of the course, you will take a test containing 8 questions. 
  • You can take the test 2 times, if necessary. 
  • You must score min. 85% of the correct answers to receive the official certificate of completion.

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Participants’ Pains

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Many participants may face challenges related to a lack of understanding of virtual and augmented reality applications and their functionalities. This lack of knowledge could hinder their ability to effectively utilise virtual and augmented reality applications systems to make simulations, streamline business processes, and take decisions. By addressing this challenge through education and training, participants can gain the necessary skills and knowledge to maximise the potential benefits of virtual and augmented reality applications systems in their organisations, improving efficiency, productivity, and overall performance.

Participants may struggle with understanding how virtual reality technologies can help also to stimulate or create innovative working environment. The lack of awareness could result in missed opportunities to optimise activities, make secure maintenance activities, assembly virtual objects and use virtual reality effectively. The advantages must be known because these technologies are numerous, including enhanced employee engagement, improved training processes and reduced costs.
By simulating real-life situations, workers can develop better skills and behaviours, ultimately leading to a better work environment and more efficient processes.

Many participants may lack awareness of virtual reality integrations and intelligent asset management services available to enhance their activities in their organizations or improve management capabilities. This lack of awareness could limit their ability to use augmented reality or 3D solutions or the metaverse in business contexts allowing an effective development of digital activities or simulations. Using better virtual worlds could allow interactive experiences and multi-organizations collaborations regardless of location, leading to more efficient exchanges of ideas and solutions.

Participants’ Gains

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Participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of the advantages offered by VR, AR, CAD and CAM technologies and how they can be applied in various contexts. By exploring the potential applications of virtual technologies, participants can identify opportunities to leverage working solutions to enhance efficiency, scalability, and flexibility in their organisations. This knowledge will enable learners to understand how to use virtual computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided manufacturing (CAM) obtaining also benefits for companies that require precise and efficient manufacturing processes.

Participants will gain insights into the ways in which the integration of cutting-edge technologies such as virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) into various industrial sectors allows to significant changes in the way companies operate their businesses. In particular, digital transformation can greatly impact to manufacturing industries, where working processes improvement has become a top priority. One of the essential components of manufacturing production is the use of 3D models. With 3D models, companies can create prototypes, test designs, and manufacture products with great precision and accuracy. Furthermore, these models can be used to detect malfunctioning alerts, thereby saving production time and resources.

Participants will gain a comprehensive overview, in recent years, that has been a significant shift in the business world towards digital transformation. As a result, companies are increasingly investing in new technologies like VR and AR to optimize their working processes and improve their productivity. These technologies are particularly beneficial in industries such as aerospace, construction, and manufacturing. Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are rapidly changing the way companies approach training and improving organizational efficiency. By integrating metaverse digital engagement, companies can create immersive and highly interactive simulations that allow workers to gain firsthand experience in a safe and controlled environment.

P5-C1: Energy savings and environmental impact of production systems

Course 1: Energy savings and environmental impact of production systems

Course agenda

In this course, you will find:

  • Energy generation in manufacturing plans (solar, wind, water, etc.).
  • Energy Management Systems and their customization.
  • Devices’ energy waste in business contexts and monitoring tools (ex. IBM Envizi Energy Mgmt Software, Facilio, Wattics, DEXMA energy intelligence, Galooli, Watchwire).
  • The European Directives Energy Efficiency, Eco-label, Energy-label, Eco-design, RoHs, EMAS, and their application to equipment and industrial devices.
  • Designing systems of manufacturing organizations in accordance with efficiency needs and advantages.
  • Cases and practices of end-of-life of waste electrical, electronic and industrial equipment.

Organizational info:

  • This course contains 5 lessons.
  • Lessons include written content, downloadable materials.
  • To complete this course, you need 80 minutes.
  • You can pause the course anytime and return to where you finished whenever you want.
  • You can follow the course as it flows or at your own pace, rearranging the order of the lessons.
  • At the end of the course, you will take a test containing 8 questions. 
  • You can take the test 2 times, if necessary. 
  • You must score min. 85% of the correct answers to receive the official certificate of completion.

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Participants’ Pains

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Many participants may face challenges related to a lack of understanding of how it is possible to generate sustainable energy and reduce its consumption in manufacturing sites. Also, its impact in terms of operational processes and investments costs. It is also fundamental to understand what an energy management system and its application in a production environment is, identifying and choosing the right manufacturing devices with a higher energy efficiency.

Many participants may be confused about energy efficiency and energy savings actions at appliance level. Often at enterprise level seems to be adopted more and more in manufacturing sites and not for services’ companies. In several EU countries the rules related to the energy efficiency criterion seems different and the same happens worldwide. Without clarity on these trends, participants may have difficulty understanding their impact on the business in future.

Many participants may face challenges related to a lack of understanding of Energy Management Systems and how increase significant interest among managers, engineers involved in production processes design and other experts involved in plants’ maintenance. This lack of awareness can lead to inefficiency, resistance to new efficiency systems and missed opportunities to use them.

Participants’ Gains

So, we developed this course, in which…

Participants will gain an understanding of the impact of energy savings systems and gain the ability to effectively adopt them in a professional environment. The course will enable participants to obtain a comprehensive overview of the main aspects related to the area of acquired knowledge and how it can be focused on understanding the impact of energy management systems in workplaces.

By gaining insight into current trends in energy efficiency in business contexts, participants will have the knowledge and skills needed to capitalise on these trends, proactively manage them and adapt to the better workers adoption. To make the right decision regarding the adoption of these technologies or business processes, participants will receive the knowledge of the specific features of the working environment, the main tasks, the expected real outcomes, the conditions under which they will be used, and based on that, choose the appropriate method, devices, tools and software.

Participants will be prepared to contribute to identify and choice the better devices within the organisation. They will be able to take the right decisions regarding the adoption of these technologies on the business processes. It is fundamental to have for the participants the knowledge of the specific features of the working environment, the main tasks, the expected real outcomes, the conditions under which they will be used, and based on that, choose the appropriate method, devices, tools and software to determine the best performance of the working processes and workers conditions.

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