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Additive manufacturing: Impacting business

Improve the efficiency of your business by understanding what additive manufacturing can do and how it can optimise your supply chain and manufacturing processes.

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Additive manufacturing: Impacting business
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£175.00 £157.50 Plus vat
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£200.00 £180.00 Plus vat

Summary

Improve the efficiency of your business by understanding what additive manufacturing can do and how it can optimise your supply chain and manufacturing processes.

Learn about the seven key additive manufacturing processes such as stereolithography, material extrusion, materials jetting and powder bed fusion. Explore how the design and manufacturing choices you make can have an effect on the business including supply chain and product design. 

Between the 2 sessions, you will be given an exercise to optimise a part design, before being shown how additive manufacturing can optimise the part even further. 

Using everything you have learnt throughout the course, identify the key steps to evaluate the business model and develop a business case to integrate additive manufacturing into your business.  

 Key topics: 

Where is manufacturing now? 

Understanding Additive manufacturing  

Supply chain evolution  

Part design and optimisation 

Making a business case 

This course is suitable for anyone who is: 

Responsible for reducing supply chain costs 

Designing parts and assemblies and wants to minimise material and cost 

Needing to improve the efficiency of their manufacturing processes 

Building a business case for using additive manufacturing in their workplace 

Wants to understand the most efficient techniques for manufacturing 

No prior knowledge of Additive Manufacturing or CAD design is required. 

How will I benefit?

After the course you will be able to:

Gain knowledge of the key additive manufacturing processes 

Understand how your choices impact the supply chain 

Be able to identify key areas for part design optimisation 

Develop a business model and business case to use AM in your organisation 

Disclaimer for customers: *Please note that the session distribution above may vary depending on learning needs and number of delegates of each cohort. 

 

Contributes 3 CPD hours

Mapped against UK- SPEC competencies: B and A

  1. Design and development of processes, systems, services and products - For Chartered Engineers: ‘Apply appropriate theoretical and practical methods to the analysis and solution of mechanical engineering problems’ For Incorporated Engineers ‘Apply appropriate theoretical and practical methods to design, develop, manufacture, construct commission, operate, maintain, decommission and re-cycle mechanical engineering processes, systems, services and products’
  2. Knowledge and understanding - For Chartered Engineers: ‘Use a combination of general and specialist engineering knowledge and understanding to optimize the application of existing and emerging technology’ For Incorporated Engineers: ‘Use a combination of general and specialist mechanical engineering knowledge and understanding to apply existing and emerging technology’

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  • Duration:
    3 hours
  • Location:
    Virtual classroom
  • CPD Hours:
    3
  • UK-Spec:
    B, A

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Available dates for Additive manufacturing: Impacting business

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05 Feb 2024 12:00 - 15:15 5 February 2024 (13:00 - 16:15 GMT)
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10 Sep 2024 13:00 - 16:15 10 September 2024 (13:00 - 16:15 BST)

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