Production Management Certification Training Course
Get ready to unlock your potential with the four-day Production Management Certification Training! You’ll gain all the tools and knowledge needed to confidently and effectively apply management principles to the production process. With our expert instructors and hands-on approach, you’ll leave feeling empowered and ready to take on any production management challenge. Join us and take the first step towards becoming a highly effective production manager. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to invest in yourself and your career. Sign up today!
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Duration
4 Days
Cost
$2,995
Formats
Public Class, Live Webinar, On-Site, and Self-study
Instructors
Decades of manufacturing management experience, not academics
Completion
Certificate Issued
What Will I Learn in the Production Management Certification Training Course?
Section One: Overview
Module One: How Technology and New Software Are Changing Manufacturing
This module provides a comprehensive, real-world overview of the digital transformation reshaping modern manufacturing. Participants explore Industry 4.0, smart factories, cloud computing, IoT, ERP/MRP systems, robotics, additive manufacturing, blockchain, predictive analytics, artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality, advanced materials, and nanotechnology. The module also includes practical guidance on avoiding deceptive software sales practices, helping leaders make informed technology investment decisions that improve productivity, quality, and competitiveness.
Module Two: Laying the Foundation for Success
This module focuses on building a strong strategic and operational foundation for manufacturing excellence. Participants learn the role of manufacturing trade associations, how to create a meaningful company mission statement, and how customer influence shapes manufacturing processes. The module introduces planning and control, process analysis, information flows, and process mapping techniques that improve efficiency, visibility, and decision-making across the organization.
Module Three: Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)
This module introduces Sales and Operations Planning as a core business process for aligning demand, capacity, and resources. Participants learn the purpose and objectives of S&OP, how to develop and balance plans, how to manage consensus meetings, and how to integrate traditional and nontraditional labor sources. The module emphasizes the development of a realistic, data-driven strategy to improve service levels, control costs, and support long-term growth.
Section Two: Leadership
Module One: Getting Started
This module sets the foundation for leadership success in manufacturing. Participants gain a clear understanding of the leadership journey, personal accountability, and the role leaders play in shaping culture, performance, and continuous improvement.
Module Two: The Evolution of Leadership
This module examines the nature of leadership in today’s manufacturing environment. Participants examine leadership principles, servant leadership, and the Kouzes and Posner leadership model, including modeling the way, inspiring a shared vision, challenging the process, enabling others to act, and encouraging the heart. The module includes a personal leadership inventory and action-planning tools for immediate application.
Module Three: Situational Leadership
This module teaches leaders to adapt their leadership style to their team’s needs. Participants learn the four situational leadership approaches—telling, selling, participating, and delegating—and how to apply each style effectively to improve performance, accountability, and engagement.
Module Four: Lead Through Team Building
This module focuses on building high-performance manufacturing teams. Participants learn the purpose of teams, characteristics of top-performing teams, accountability, span of control, SOP development, performance indicators, KPIs, and Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE). The module equips leaders with practical tools for structuring, managing, and optimizing team performance.
Module Five: Lead by Example
This module develops leaders who influence through action. Participants learn how to be inspirational role models, apply persuasion and influence techniques, build credibility through consistency, and create a learning-driven culture. The module also covers how to address toxic behavior and build a strong business case for difficult personnel decisions.
Module Six: Lead by Communicating with Your Team
This module strengthens leadership communication skills. Participants learn to communicate vision clearly, align teams around shared goals, encourage open dialogue, establish a culture of feedback, and resolve conflict constructively. The module emphasizes concise, effective communication that drives results.
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Production Management Certification Training Course Public Class and Webinar Schedule
- Tuesday-Friday, October 27-30, 2026 Full
- Tuesday-Friday, November 17-20,2026
- Tuesday-Friday, December 15-18, 2026 Full
- Tuesday-Friday, January 26-29, 2027
- Tuesday-Friday, February 23-26, 2027
- Tuesday-Friday, March 23-26, 2027
- Tuesday-Friday, April, 27-30, 2027
- Tuesday-Friday, May 25-28, 2027
- Tuesday-Friday, June, 22-25, 2027
Scheduled dates don’t work for you? Schedule your own start date (subject to availability). Contact customer service to check date availability at info@academyofbusiness
training.com.
The trainer made sure I understood the material.
C. S., Production Manager
Polo Custom Products
I would highly recommend this course because it is amazingly thorough and is applicable to real-world situations.
J. H., Production Supervisor
Polo Custom Products
Course worked out well with my hours and being offered online, I thought the help was great, and it taught me some useful information.
A. B.
Ritchie
I liked the fact that the instructor asked if we needed help often. I enjoyed this class more than I have any other leadership class.
S. C., Production Manager
Dura-line
Very knowledgeable instructor.
T. H., Production Manager
Amertrail, Inc.
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Module Seven: Lead by Establishing Trust, Respect, and Encouraging Growth
This module focuses on building trust-based leadership. Participants learn to cultivate mutual respect, encourage growth, prepare employees for promotion, and foster a culture in which learning from mistakes drives innovation and continuous improvement.
Module Eight: Lead by Motivating Your Team
This module explores proven motivation theories and practical tools for improving morale, engagement, and retention. Participants learn how to apply Herzberg’s theory, expectancy theory, intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, personality-based motivation strategies, incentive programs, and morale improvement plans tailored to manufacturing teams.
Module Nine: Lead by Setting SMART Goals
This module teaches leaders how to set and manage performance goals using the SMART framework and the GROW model. Participants learn how to establish norms, standards, performance objectives, strategic plans, and job analysis processes that drive accountability, engagement, and measurable improvement.
Module Ten: Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
This module introduces leaders to Employee Assistance Programs and employee savings programs. Participants learn to implement EAPs, leverage organizational purchasing power, and provide meaningful support resources that improve employee well-being and retention.
Section Three: Creating Operational Excellence
Module One: Building an Intrinsically Motivated Company
This module teaches leaders how to build a culture driven by intrinsic motivation. Participants learn how to hire, promote, and develop employees who take ownership of performance, innovation, and continuous improvement, thereby creating a sustainable competitive advantage.
Module Two: Production Planning, Scheduling, and Control
This module delivers practical tools for controlling production performance. Participants learn production roles, planning and scheduling best practices, Production Activity Control (PAC), job planning, kitting, staging, feedback systems, and planner workflows that enable organizations to transition from reactive to proactive operations.
Module Three: Inventory Management
This module provides a structured approach to managing inventory as a strategic asset. Participants learn inventory fundamentals, carrying costs, stockout costs, EOQ, reorder points, safety stock, inventory turnover, and metrics that improve service while reducing working capital.
Module Four: Asset Tracking
This module introduces modern asset identification and tracking systems. Participants learn about SKUs, AIDC, barcodes, QR codes, RFID, voice recognition, barcode readers, technical standards, and system selection strategies that improve accuracy, visibility, and traceability.
Module Five: Just-In-Time and Lean Production
This module teaches Lean and JIT production principles for eliminating waste and improving flow. Participants learn Kanban, Kaizen, Heijunka, Andon, SMED, TQM, and TPM methodologies that drive productivity, quality, and reliability throughout manufacturing operations.
Module Six: Theory of Constraints
This module focuses on identifying and eliminating operational bottlenecks. Participants learn the TOC five-step process, root-cause analysis methods, and continuous improvement tools to increase throughput, reduce lead time, and improve system performance.
Conclusion: Challenging the Process
This concluding module equips leaders with the mindset and tools needed to drive change. Participants learn why change is difficult; how commitment and consistency influence behavior; how to think creatively; how to build business cases; how to lobby for improvement; how to apply reverse mentoring; and how to convince leadership to embrace innovation and transformation successfully.
FAQs
What Is Production Management?
Production management is the process of planning, organizing, directing, and controlling manufacturing operations to produce products safely, efficiently, on time, and at the required quality level. Production managers are responsible for balancing labor, equipment, materials, inventory, schedules, and customer demand while continually improving productivity and profitability.
How training from ABT helps
ABT teaches production management from a real manufacturing perspective. Students learn practical methods used every day to improve production performance, reduce costs, increase throughput, and lead manufacturing teams.
What Does a Production Manager Do?
A production manager oversees the day-to-day operation of a manufacturing facility or production department. Responsibilities typically include production planning, scheduling, staffing, quality improvement, inventory coordination, equipment utilization, safety, budgeting, performance measurement, and continuous improvement. Production managers also work closely with purchasing, engineering, maintenance, warehouse, quality, and senior management to achieve production goals.
How training from ABT helps
This course prepares managers to make better operational decisions by combining production planning, leadership, process improvement, and manufacturing best practices.
What Skills Are Required to Become a Successful Production Manager?
Successful production managers combine technical manufacturing knowledge with leadership and business skills. Important competencies include:
- Production planning
- Capacity planning
- Scheduling
- Lean manufacturing
- Problem solving
- Team leadership
- Communication
- KPI management
- Inventory control
- Process improvement
- Decision-making
- Performance coaching
How training from ABT helps
Students learn both the technical and leadership skills required to successfully manage modern manufacturing operations.
Is Production Management a Good Career?
Yes. Production management offers excellent career opportunities because manufacturers continually need leaders who can improve productivity, quality, delivery performance, and profitability.
Experienced production managers often advance into positions such as:
- Plant Manager
- Operations Manager
- Manufacturing Manager
- Director of Operations
- Vice President of Operations
How training from ABT helps
The course is designed to prepare supervisors, managers, and future manufacturing leaders for greater responsibility.
What Is the Difference Between Production Management and Operations Management?
Production management focuses on manufacturing activities such as production planning, scheduling, shop floor control, equipment utilization, inventory management, and quality. Operations management is broader and encompasses manufacturing, purchasing, logistics, warehousing, supply chain management, customer service, and other operational functions. Many companies use the two titles interchangeably.
How training from ABT helps
The course explains both concepts and shows how production management fits within overall manufacturing operations.
What Will I Learn in a Production Management Certification Course?
Students learn practical methods for managing manufacturing operations, including:
- Production planning
- Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)
- Production control
- Leadership
- Lean manufacturing
- Predictive maintenance
- Inventory management
- Continuous improvement
- Process mapping
- Team development
- Production Activity Control (PAC)
- Theory of Constraints
- Industry 4.0 technologies
How training from ABT helps
Every topic focuses on practical application rather than academic theory so participants can immediately improve manufacturing performance.
Who Should Attend Production Management Training?
Production management training is ideal for:
- Production Managers
- Manufacturing Managers
- Operations Managers
- Plant Managers
- Production Supervisors
- Team Leaders
- Manufacturing Engineers
- Continuous Improvement Managers
- Future manufacturing leaders
It is also valuable for professionals preparing for promotion into production leadership.
Is Production Management Training Worth It?
Yes. Effective production management directly impacts profitability by improving productivity, reducing waste, increasing equipment utilization, lowering manufacturing costs, improving quality, and delivering products on time. Organizations often recover the cost of training through measurable operational improvements.
How training from ABT helps
Students leave with practical tools they can immediately implement to improve production performance.
How Does Production Management Improve Manufacturing Performance?
Effective production management helps manufacturers:
- Increase throughput
- Reduce downtime
- Improve labor productivity
- Reduce overtime
- Lower inventory levels
- Improve on-time delivery
- Reduce scrap and rework
- Improve equipment utilization
- Improve customer satisfaction
These improvements contribute directly to increased profitability.
What Is Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)?
Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is a structured planning process that aligns sales forecasts, production capacity, inventory, purchasing, and customer demand. A well-managed S&OP process helps manufacturers reduce shortages, minimize excess inventory, improve delivery performance, and balance production resources.
How training from ABT helps
Students learn how production managers use S&OP to create realistic production plans that support business objectives.
Why Is Lean Manufacturing Important for Production Managers?
Lean manufacturing eliminates activities that do not add value to the customer. Production managers use Lean principles to reduce waste, shorten lead times, improve quality, increase productivity, and lower manufacturing costs. Lean focuses on continuous improvement and employee involvement throughout the manufacturing process.
How training from ABT helps
Students learn practical Lean tools they can immediately apply on the production floor.
What Is Production Activity Control (PAC)?
Production Activity Control (PAC) manages the execution of production schedules by coordinating labor, materials, equipment, priorities, and work orders. PAC ensures production is completed according to schedule while minimizing delays, shortages, and bottlenecks.
How training from ABT helps
Students learn proven methods for improving schedule execution and production control.
How Does Industry 4.0 Affect Production Management?
Industry 4.0 integrates smart manufacturing technologies including IoT, AI, robotics, predictive analytics, cloud computing, ERP systems, and real-time production monitoring. Production managers increasingly rely on these technologies to improve decision-making and operational efficiency.
How training from ABT helps
The course introduces today’s manufacturing technologies without overwhelming students with unnecessary technical detail.
Do I Need Manufacturing Experience Before Taking This Course?
No. While manufacturing experience is helpful, many participants are newly promoted supervisors, engineers, planners, or managers transitioning into production leadership roles. The course builds a practical understanding of modern manufacturing management concepts from the ground up.
Does This Course Include Leadership Training?
Yes. Effective production managers must lead people as well as processes.
The course includes practical instruction on:
- Building high-performance teams
- Communication
- Accountability
- Coaching employees
- Leading change
- Managing conflict
- Developing trust
- Performance improvement
Leadership skills are integrated throughout the program rather than taught separately.
What Makes ABT’s Production Management Certification Different?
Unlike many university or consultant-led programs, ABT training is taught from a practical manufacturing perspective by professionals with decades of real production management experience. Students learn proven methods they can implement immediately—not just theoretical concepts. Training includes real manufacturing examples, practical discussions, process improvement techniques, and management tools designed for today’s production environments.
