Integrating Additive Manufacturing with Traditional Manufacturing

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Overview

Integrating Additive Manufacturing with Traditional Manufacturing

Course Description

Integrating Additive Manufacturing with Traditional Manufacturing discusses the factors manufacturers should consider when adding an additive manufacturing (AM) component to a traditional manufacturing operation, including cost, logistics, and best uses of AM with traditional manufacturing, among other concerns. Originally used for prototyping, AM has increasingly found more roles in traditional manufacturing processes, such as creating tooling or end-use parts. However, because the procedures and tools are so different, combining the two kinds of manufacturing requires considerable adjustments. Logistical concerns of integrating AM with traditional manufacturing include purchasing the correct machines and updating safety protocols. Design concerns involve upskilling engineers so that they can take full advantage of AM capabilities.

Course Content

TRADITIONAL MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS

ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING OPERATIONS AND PROCESSES

AM BASICS REVIEW

COMBINING TRADITIONAL AND ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING

ECONOMICS OF AM

  • Production costs
  • Manufacturing system costs

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION

AM TOOLS AND MATERIAL

UPSKILLING ENGINEERS AND OPERATORS

AM PRODUCTION CONSIDERATIONS

  • Part orientation and support structures
  • Thermal distortion
  • Post-processing

AM SAFETY

RAPID PROTOTYPING

AM AS A SECONDARY PROCESS

CREATING TOOLS WITH AM

END-USE AM

MASS CUSTOMIZATION

INTEGRATING MASS CUSTOMIZATION

PART INTEGRATION

HYBRID MANUFACTURING

Requirements & Materials
Materials

Required - Student Must Provide

  • Computer with one of the follow system components:
    • Windows Computer
      • Operating system is Windows 2000, XP Professional with Service Pack 2 or higher, and or Windows Vista Home Edition and higher.
      • To access video content make sure you have Windows Silver Light 4 and Windows Media Player 9 and higher.
      • Ensure you have administrative access or a local System Administrator available if the above requirements are not installed.
    • Macintosh Computers
      • Operating system is Mac OS X version 10.3.9 and higher.
      • To access web content make sure you have Safari 5 or Mozilla Firefox 3.6 and higher.
      • To access video content make sure you have Windows Silver Light 4 and Flip4Mac 2 and higher.
      • Ensure you have Administrative access or a local System Administrator available if the above requirements are not installed.
    • Headphones
    • Printer

Session Details

Who Should Attend

This course is designed for managers, supervisors, operations managers, plant managers, and plant engineers with new responsibilities or new managers and those ready to move into a management role.

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What You Will Learn

  • Additive manufacturing processes
  • How to combine traditional and additive manufacturing
  • The variation between AM production and manufacturing costs
  • How AM affects product development and production
  • The important AM tools and AM materials
  • General AM safety considerations
  • AM rapid prototyping and how it can be used in traditional manufacturing operations
  • How to use AM as a secondary process
  • The use of AM in creating industrial tooling
  • How to integrate AM mass customization with a traditional manufacturing operation
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How You Will Benefit

  • Understand how to take full advantage of AM as a tool to augment a traditional manufacturing operation.
  • Describe end-use AM and AM mass customization.
  • Explain hybrid manufacturing processes.
  • Describe AM production considerations related to part orientation and support structures, thermal distoration, and post-processing.
  • Learn how to upskill engineers and operators for AM processes.
  • Describe AM part integration and how it relates to combining AM and traditional manufacturing.
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