Industry 4.0 & Smart Manufacturing Courses and Certifications

Board Infinity

Key Industry 4.0 Technologies in Manufacturing - 2

Explore the technologies behind smart factories: AI versus machine and deep learning, big data analytics, blockchain smart contracts, VR/AR/MR use cases, cloud migration, and manufacturing cybersecurity.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Board Infinity

Key Enablers and Challenges in Implementing Industry 4.0

Learn to navigate Industry 4.0 adoption in manufacturing: external supply chain, legal and workforce hurdles, internal change, data security and funding barriers, and technology and process enablers.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Starweaver

Future of Production

Explore how robotics, AI, IoT, additive manufacturing, and big data are reshaping production, and how green manufacturing and circular economy practices fit into future factories.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Siemens

Expedite – Skills for Industry: Future of Industry

Explore how Industry 5.0, immersive technologies and ethical AI reshape engineering: adapt presentations for global audiences, mitigate bias in AI decisions, and apply prompt engineering to generative tools.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Virtual Factory for Education

Build a virtual factory on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform: design workshop equipment, simulate flows to find bottlenecks, and create robot trajectories and programs with DELMIA Robotics.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Siemens

Introduction to the Industrial Metaverse (IMV)

Explore the Industrial Metaverse's three pillars — Digital Twin, Industrial AI, and Software-Defined Automation — plus use cases in virtual commissioning, immersive engineering, IT/OT convergence, and physics-based simulation.

• Coursera
• 7 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

L&T EduTech Career Certificate

New Age Technologies in Manufacturing

Apply Industry 4.0 technologies to manufacturing: build embedded and IIoT systems, program PLCs and robots, and use AI, ML and Python for predictive maintenance and energy monitoring.

• Coursera
• 8 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 3 courses

L&T EduTech

AI, ML and IIoT in Manufacturing

Learn how IIoT and AI drive smart factories: IIoT architecture layers, sensor gateways, edge versus cloud AI, and deep learning for robotic control and predictive maintenance.

• Coursera
• 2 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Board Infinity

AI in Manufacturing: Predictive Maintenance and Alerts

Predict machine failures before they happen: train a Random Forest on the AI4I 2020 dataset in Google Colab, then fire email alerts through an n8n workflow.

• Coursera
• 2 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

L&T EduTech

Modern Manufacturing Concepts

Explore smart factory technologies: control servo motors with Arduino Nano and PCA9685, assemble a 5-DOF robotic arm, and study CIM, cellular manufacturing, and PLCs.

• Coursera
• 2 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Learn to use IBM App Connect for Manufacturing to build, deploy, and test OPC UA-to-MQTT integration solutions in a simulated manufacturing environment.

• IBM Training
• 8 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Next Production Revolution series

A series introducing the Next Production Revolution paradigm and how emerging technologies are reshaping how goods are produced.

• Polimi OPEN KNOWLEDGE
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Technology clusters for the Next Production Revolution in Africa

Explore additive manufacturing and smart agriculture as enabling technology clusters for Africa's Next Production Revolution, covering industrial digital transformation and modernization of agricultural production.

• Polimi OPEN KNOWLEDGE
• 3 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Industry 4.0: How to Revolutionize your Business

21 ratings at edX

An introduction to the fourth industrial revolution, it's major systems and technologies and how new products and services will impact business and society.

• edX
• 6 weeks, 6-8 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Career Certificate

Industry 4.0 for business managers

Enhance your knowledge, skills and a mindset for new value creation through digital applications with intelligent use of data, automations and predictions

• edX
• 11 weeks, 2-8 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• $295.00
• 2 courses