NMI has a long history in providing and coordinating many beneficial skills programmes for the industry in partnership with its highly recommended training providers. We have listed several popular training courses below however we are also able to coordinate a host of of other topic areas and often pull several sites together to share on cost of delivery.

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Diploma in Management

This level 5 Diploma in Management, which is Chartered Management Institute (CMI) accredited, allows individuals to learn a full range of managerial skills. Through assignments individuals have to demonstrate the learning they have gained within the classroom and apply it to their current workplace, thus not only developing the individual but also the organisation.

  Modules of Study

The Diploma comprises of 8 compulsory modules. Each module is based on an area (or inter-related areas) of Management, and each module is designed with specific aims in mind. The final module is a Project, designed to provide the student with an opportunity to develop and apply the skills learned on the programme by addressing a practical management issue.
• Developing Your Management Style
• Effective Communication and Information Management
• Managing Performance
• Managing Financial and Non Financial Resources
• Planning to Meet Customer and Quality Requirements
• Recruitment and Selection
• Principles of Project Management
• Final Project

Our key partner for this programme is Clearwater Brookes.

Team Leader Certificate 

 
This recently developed qualification is intended for people who are responsible for leading a team which directly provides services or produces goods. The emphasis of this programme is to help develop leadership skills to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of teams to provide operational improvements.

Modules of Study

The Certificate comprises of seven compulsory units. Each unit is based on an area (or inter-related areas) of Team Leading, and each unit is designed with specific aims in mind.

• Organise and Develop Yourself
• Organise and Communicate Information
• Organise and Improve Your Team’s Work
• Organise  Team resources and Reduce Risks to Health and Safety
• Maintain and Develop Effective Working Relationships
• Help Your Team Members to Develop Their Performance
• Resolve Customer Service Issues

Our key partner for this programme is Clearwater Brookes.

Faultfinding Training

In partnership with Business Improvement and Training Solutions Ltd
This training course imparts faultfinding skills to those with a good understanding of electrical control circuits.
The training is targeted at technicians and new engineers working in the manufacturing industry who wish to apply their knowledge of electricity to the maintenance and repair of equipment. This 3 day work shop allows students to gain hands on practical experience using best known methods.

Course Content
• Understand the psychological barriers to problem solving.
• Systematic faultfinding
• The six step procedure
• Half split method
• Using documentation as an aid to faultfinding

Our key partner for this programme is Business Improvement and Training Solutions.

Introduction to Semiconductor Processing

The Introduction to Semiconductor Processing is an intensive five days training course that addresses the needs of scientists, engineers, and technicians newly involved in design, development, testing, production, management, procurement or evaluation of semiconductors. While the course will add to the knowledge and understanding of experienced technologists it is an essential course for all new entries into the industry. This training seminar covers modern semiconductor processes in sub-micron CMOS, BICMOS and bipolar, from a historical perspective. The course systematically reduces semiconductor theory to current practice through the use of visual examples and design graphics in basic materials, production processing and device operation. The impact of processing on yield, performance, and reliability issues is explored throughout the course. Emphasis is on imparting to the student an experience and understanding of the fundamental process and device concepts essential to the development of a productive career in the industry.

 Course Content

• Yield
• Silicon Materials
• Cleaning & Oxidation process
• Photo & Etch: Masking process
• Dopant Introduction Implantation
• Dopant Movement Diffusion
• CVD & PVD
• Semiconductor Physics
• Diodes
• Bipolar
• CMOS
• Assembly
• Quality Control & Failure Analysis

 Our Key partner for this programme is the Components Technology Institute.