Fellowship in Manufacturing Management

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The Fellowship in Manufacturing Management (FMM) is a 15-month program for senior managers in the manufacturing industry. Based at Cranfield University’s School of Applied Sciences in Bedfordshire, England, it helps organizations improve cost effectiveness. Fellows become Cranfield alumni.

The program mixes a foundation phase with a year of work-based learning. The 12-week foundation phase covers professional skills for manufacturing management (Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Theory of Constraints, Change Management, Finance and Strategy) and personal skills (leadership, communication, problem solving, decision making, self-management and personal effectiveness). The following 12 months is the industrial phase, where fellows apply these skills on a challenging manufacturing or operations management project.

Fellows join a supportive alumni network of over 1,200. The FMM won the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in 2005, recognized as a unique, innovative program that accelerates the development of effective change managers. The FMM began in 1977 and was originally funded by the Engineering Industry Training Board (EITB).