MADE HERE — the curriculum
The same eight ideas, taught three different ways — because what a seven-year-old needs from a factory is not what a seventeen-year-old choosing a degree needs from one.
Every module is one of the disciplines our practitioners do for a living, and every one is built around an activity. Nobody learns how a bottleneck works by being told.
Three levels
Attention spans, vocabulary and stakes all change enormously between standard 3 and standard 12. So do the decks. The ideas underneath them do not.
Level 1
Standards 1 to 5
Who makes everything?
Almost all pictures, one idea per slide, two activities. A single 45-minute visit that turns “a factory” from an abstract word into something a seven-year-old can describe.
14 slides45 minutes2 activitiesAges 6–11
Level 2
Standards 6 to 10
How an industry actually works
The core programme. All eight modules, each built around an activity rather than a lecture, plus a plant visit and the capstone project. This is the level that fits the NEP bagless-days requirement.
20 slides8 sessions5 activitiesAges 11–16
Level 3
Standards 11 and 12
The industry you are about to choose
A career-decision session. Where manufacturing actually sits globally, what world-class means in numbers, all eight disciplines in depth, and the honest answer on routes, pay and what to do in the next two years.
26 slidesGlobal market analysisWorld-class benchmarksAges 16–18
The eight modules
Two of these — 5S with the eight wastes, and environmental responsibility — were added at the request of our own practitioners, because they are the two habits that decide whether anything else survives on a real shop floor.
Module 01 — The value chain
Where a factory sits between a raw material and a customer, and why breaking one link stops everything after it.
In the room
Trace one object in the room back through every hand that touched it.
Production · Planning · Sourcing · Logistics
Module 02 — Operations excellence
Flow, takt and the constraint. Why a line moves at the speed of its slowest station, not its fastest.
In the room
Run a five-station paper line, measure it, find your own bottleneck and rebalance it.
Industrial engineer · Line supervisor · Planner
Module 03 — 5S and the eight wastes
5S is not tidying up — it is making problems visible. Then the eight wastes, and how to see them once you know their names.
In the room
Build a shadow board for the classroom, then walk a real school process with a stopwatch and tag every waste.
Continuous improvement · Lean · Kaizen
Module 04 — Quality management
What a defect is, why measurement itself has to be proved, and why finding a fault at the customer costs a hundred times more.
In the room
Three students measure one object and disagree. That is gauge R&R, felt rather than taught.
Quality engineer · Metrology · Supplier quality
Module 05 — Total productive maintenance
Availability, the six big losses and OEE — and why the person who runs the machine is the right person to look after it.
In the room
Measure your own classroom’s availability for a week, Pareto the losses, then fix the biggest one.
Maintenance · Reliability · Planning
Module 06 — AI and digitalisation
What a model actually is, where it helps on a line, and why bad data beats a good model every time.
In the room
Train an image classifier on good and defective parts, then break it deliberately and work out why.
Data engineer · ML engineer · Vision
Module 07 — IoT and connected machines
Sense, connect, store, decide, act. How ten thousand cheap sensors became the industrial internet of things.
In the room
Wire a sensor to count objects passing, log it with a timestamp, and plot a day of it.
Automation · Controls · Industry 4.0
Module 08 — Environment and responsibility
Energy, water, waste and carbon as measured process losses — and what a student can actually be responsible for.
In the room
Audit the school’s energy and waste, cost the fix in rupees, and hand the proposal to the principal.
EHS · Sustainability · Energy · Compliance
How it is taught
A session that is seventy per cent activity is remembered. One that is seventy per cent explanation is not, however good the slides are. Every module in this curriculum is built backwards from an activity.
The senior level
Students choosing a degree deserve real numbers rather than encouragement. The Level 3 deck opens with where manufacturing actually is in the world, and it does not flatter India’s position.
Sources: Visual Capitalist analysis of World Bank and BEA data 2025; World Economic Forum Global Lighthouse Network 2025; Nakajima TPM benchmark; IBEF and the National Mission on Manufacturing.
Start
Tell us the standard and we will bring the right deck, the right practitioner and the kit. If your students are not visibly more interested at the end than they were at the start, we will not ask you for anything further.
