What do I learn in the preparatory courses for the professional examination? What can I do as a production specialist with a federal certificate?

In the preparatory courses, you will be taught all the content, knowledge and skills that are tested and examined in a professional examination for production specialists. You do not actually have to take an exam in the professional examination, but you will have to write a project in advance. Here you will be required not only to present the theoretical knowledge you have acquired in the preparatory courses in a linguistically appropriate form and with correct content, but also to be able to implement and apply it in a case-specific manner.

You must give an oral presentation of your project work, which is then discussed orally with experts. The three thematic focuses are divided into several modules, which in turn deal with different content (a selection is shown in brackets):

• Basic knowledge and skills:
  • Technical calculations (arithmetic, equations and functions, statistics, geometry, statics)
  • Applied Computer Science I (note-taking techniques, word processing, basics of spreadsheets)
• Specialist and industry-specific knowledge and skills:
  • Resource management (production planning of personnel and material resources, calculation and optimization of hourly production rates, costing and quotation preparation, quality assurance and quality verification)
  • Process control (control components, carrying out measurements, circuit diagrams, electric drives and safety, PLC programmable logic controllers)
  • Industry 4.0 (Basic) (autonomous production, robotics and big data in flexible production, additive manufacturing)
  • Elective modules: CNC/CAM techniques or handling systems
• Leadership-specific knowledge and skills:
  • Work methodology and leadership (work methodology, organization, leadership, project management)

Once you have successfully completed the preparatory course and the professional examination to become a production specialist, you will be able to work in the context of Industrialization 4.0 and play a key role in driving it forward. You can:

• Plan individual work steps
• Determine suitable manufacturing and processing methods
• Implementing new production techniques
• Organize, control, monitor and optimize processes
• Develop simpler constructions independently
• Using resources cost-effectively and environmentally consciously
• Control production and resources efficiently, i.e. with minimal downtime and stoppages
• Check the quality of the products

Provider of training courses for production specialists