Design for Additive Manufacturing
This course will provide the necessary knowledge and skills for the design of AM products using advanced digital design tools. Designers will learn the technical fundamentals, industrial applications, design strategies, and benefits and drawbacks of AM technologies.
Maximize the product performance by the right design
Additive manufacturing (AM), also known as 3D printing, is a revolutionary technology because of new opportunities in the design and manufacturing process. AM provides great freedom in the design of complex shape products with a wide range of materials that cannot be easily manufactured by other fabrication methods.
Many engineers and researchers need a clear understanding of techniques and tools that support product design for additive manufacturing processes. This is a way to maximize the product performance by choosing the right size, shape, structure, and material compositions, subject to the capabilities of AM technologies.
This course will provide the necessary knowledge and skills for the design of AM products using advanced digital design tools. Designers will learn the technical fundamentals, industrial applications, design strategies, and benefits and drawbacks of AM technologies.
3D printing: DFAM with advanced digital design tools
After this training course, you will be able to:
- Understand and explain the principal additive manufacturing processes, the fundamental mechanism of operation, and applications
- Identify the entire product life cycle from design conception to the final product in the additive manufacturing process.
- Understand, explain and use design strategies and rules for metal and polymer additive manufacturing processes
- Identify the design constraints in additive manufacturing and post-processing consideration
- Employ qualitative and quantitative simulation tools in the design of additive manufactured parts.
- Explore current and future perspectives on digital design tools for additive manufacturing
Intended for
Designers, manufacturing engineers, lab technicians, researchers and everyone who is working in the field of additive manufacturing.
Course leader
Ian Gibson is Professor of Design Engineering in the department of design, production and management at the University of Twente (UT). He is also Scientific director of the Fraunhofer Project Centre at UT. He has been active in Additive Manufacturing since the very early days in the 1990s where he was involved in acquiring the third machine ever to be implemented in the UK (a 3D Systems Stereolithography machine SLA250). He has kept a keen eye on the development of the technology every since, starting the first ever academic journal on the topic (Rapid Prototyping Journal, established in 1997) and co-authoring the most popular text (Additive Manufacturing Technologies, by Springer), which has seen over 6 million downloads across its 3 editions. He is currently researching into next generation AM technology and how industry can advance through its use.
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Why PAOTM
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The latest post-academic knowledge and skills
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Focused on questions that arise in a technical environment
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Interactive and directly applicable in practice
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Top teachers from science, research and business
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Program
- Registration
- Introduction and Course Structure
- AM Technologies and Workflow
- Break
- DFAM Framework and AM costs aspects
- Lunch
- Polymer and metal AM design guideline
- Post-processing consideration
- Break
- AM design opportunities
- Part consolidation and lightweight structures
- Wrap-up
- Topology Optimization for AM
- Break
- Generative Design for AM
- Lunch
- Simulation of AM production process
- Break
- Wrap-up, summary and Q&A
- Evaluation
Course leader
prof. dr. Ian Gibson
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Dates and locations
Below you will find an overview of the available dates and locations. You can register immediately by clicking on the 'Register' button.
Investment
- Bovengenoemde prijs is exclusief 21% btw
- Inclusief koffie, thee, lunch en (digitaal) cursusmateriaal
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In-company
Are several employees interested in the same course, do you want to enrich knowledge with the entire team or focus on your own practice? Then an in-company course could be interesting. We are happy to think along with you about the possibilities. PAOTM has extensive experience in organizing in-company courses in many technical fields for a wide range of companies. You can choose to have an existing course organized in-company for multiple employees. However, if you have a specific organizational or departmental issue, we can also design a unique course. For every customized request, we search our network at universities, knowledge institutes and the business community for the right teachers who can provide your team with the desired knowledge. We then put together a course based on your training needs, learning needs and organizational goals.
Curious about the possibilities? Contact one of our program managers or complete the form below. We are happy to make you a suitable offer.
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A course tailored to your specific needs
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Get started right away with your own cases
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Led by top teachers with the most up-to-date knowledge
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You choose where and when: always efficient
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The entire team trained simultaneously
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Customization possible in all our fields
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