Manufacturing and Product Design

For the Diploma in manufacturing and product design your course will look at 3 main areas:

1. Product design and materials science: Considers the process of manufacturing a product, from the purchasing of raw materials to the sale of the finished product
2. Business and enterprise: Provides an introduction to manufacturing as a business
3. Production systems: Gives an insight into the skills, techniques and processes to turn your ideas into reality.

You’ll have the opportunity to cover five sub-sectors: food and drink; textiles and apparel; processing; chemicals, polymers and pharmaceuticals; and engineering materials.

If you’re doing a Higher or Advanced Diploma, you’ll look at the same themes but in more detail. Like product design and development, how a manufacturing business is structured and how it uses financial records, plus how to work efficiently when manufacturing a product.

More on Foundation, Higher and Advanced level courses

These are some of the things you might do on your course:

• Find out what is being manufactured from food and drink, to clothes, medicine and chemicals
• See what it’s like to design and develop products
• Learn more about different materials, from their characteristics to how you work with them
• See how businesses work in the sector and what processes they use from design to launch