Manufacturing Technology Centre Training and the National Centre for Additive Manufacturing has launched “Online and Live” – a suite of interactive online courses delivered in real time.

The courses, using fully interactive digital platforms, are designed to upskill engineers in up-to-the-minute additive manufacturing skills, processes and best practice.

Led by senior engineers from the Coventry-based National Centre for Additive Manufacturing, the courses will deliver industry-leading additive manufacturing training remotely. The courses will be conducted live on schedules dates with a limited number of learners per trainer, allowing for meaningful interaction between the trainer and learners.

Subjects in the first suite of Online & Live include Advanced Introduction to Additive Manufacturing, Design for Metal Powder Bed Fusion, Laser Processing, Best Practice in Powder Management, and Reverse Engineering Parts for Additive Manufacturing.

David Hughes MBE, managing director of the MTC’s Advanced Manufacturing Training Centre said, “Our instructional design team and expert trainers have worked tirelessly to transform our industry-leading courses for digital delivery, ensuring we can continue to support the manufacturing sector’s future skills needs despite the current COVID-19 restrictions on training centres. The new Online & Live model gives our learners a truly interactive learning experience, maximising opportunities for engagement with the trainer alongside group discussions and individual and collaborative tasks throughout the course.”

Full details of each course programme are available at Online & Live where learners can view the schedule and subject matter for the day before signing up. To mark the launch of Online & Live courses are available at a reduced cost of £295 plus VAT per full day for a limited time.

David Hughes added, “MTC Training is revolutionising the skills landscape. Using their insight into the latest technologies, techniques and processes, experts deliver an extensive training offer at the cutting edge of industrial innovation, from apprenticeships right up to senior management level. As part of the MTC, NCAM aims to accelerate the uptake of additive manufacturing by developing the technology and systems to address the challenges of this rapidly growing technology which will have anticipated global sales of £20 billion by 2022.”

MTC Training, providers of industry leading training in the high value manufacturing sector, have recently announced a pricing structure change for all eLearning courses to make them more accessible to inspire workforces across Great Britain.

eLearning courses provided by MTC Training provide highly interactive training with maximum flexibility. At a price of just £49.99 (+VAT) per Guided Learning Hour (GLH), learners can fit the learning around their busy schedules and the businesses needs as they are all self-paced.

MTC currently offer a range of online courses across 6 subject areas including A Guide for Engineers and Decision-Makers Part 1 and Part 2 whereby business leaders can make an informed decision as to whether to adopt Industrial 3D printing (Additive Manufacturing) into their manufacturing processes.

For those looking to introduce automation and robotics, Implementing Automation & Robotics will help key decision makers realise why they need to remain competitive.

For businesses in the Digital Manufacturing space, Introduction to Digital Manufacturing will help attendees identify the barriers to implementation and how to mitigate them.

On the pricing change Martin Dury, Head of Future Skills, commented: “By changing our pricing structure, we are making our courses as accessible as possible to help us achieve our aim of encouraging and enabling UK industry to adopt these disruptive technologies.”

To find out more about these digital courses, click here.

MTC Training recently launched its new, free online training course ‘Design for Manufacture & Assembly (DfMA) for Construction’ to help businesses introduce manufacturing principles into the construction industry.

Advances in Smart Construction and the requirements of the DfMA have placed a greater emphasis on the use of technology. To avoid industry being left unaware of this, leading industrial experts at the MTC have developed a course to help construction businesses understand the benefits, challenges, tools and techniques available in the very latest construction manufacturing processes.

Aimed at key business decision makers tasked with introducing DfMA into their businesses, the new, free, online training course will help participants understand the core concepts, appreciate design consideration for DfMA, and recognise its benefits and challenges, and how such challenges can be overcome for a successful adoption.

On the new course at the MTC and why businesses should be looking to implement DfMA, Ian Buckingham, Construction Skills Manager, said: “This new course is ideal for those organisations, large and small, looking to introduce DfMA for the first time. They will complete the course having learnt from our experts on why being able to improve competitiveness through modern methods of construction has never been more important and fundamentally reassessing how they do business.”

To find out more or book onto the course, visit https://the-amtc.co.uk/training/engineer-training/digital-construction/ or contact the team on 02476 701774.

Lloyds Bank will invest a further £5 million to fund its sponsorship of the industry leading Advanced Manufacturing Training Centre (AMTC). The funding doubles the bank’s original commitment, bringing the total funding to £10 million over 10 years.

The extra funding will support around 3,500 apprentices, graduates and engineers by 2024, providing them with the right skills to be at the forefront of manufacturing in the future.

The funds will contribute to a 350% increase in the original target for training apprentices and support the AMTC’s commitment to addressing the skills shortage – one of the biggest challenges facing the manufacturing sector.

Established in 2015, the Lloyds Bank Advanced Manufacturing Training Centre is a state-of-the-art training centre designed to create a new generation of engineers and technicians, equipped with the advanced manufacturing skills of the future.

Lloyds Bank has been actively working with the MTC to promote the manufacturing sector and highlight the range of skills required. In addition, the bank actively supports clients in their drive to diversify their workforce to address the skills gap as part of its ‘Helping Britain Prosper Plan’.

Business Secretary Greg Clark welcomed the announcement: “The development of skills and apprenticeships, particularly in engineering, is crucial to the success of the UK’s Industrial Strategy.

This training centre, with its focus on technical education in advanced manufacturing technologies, from apprenticeships through to technician and engineering up-skilling, helps manufacturers gain a competitive advantage, improve productivity and ensure high skilled well-paying jobs.”

“This training centre helps manufacturers gain a competitive advantage, improve productivity and ensure high skilled well-paying jobs.”
Greg Clark
Business Secretary

On Lloyds Bank’s commitment to manufacturing and its ongoing support of the AMTC, MTC Chief Executive, Dr Clive Hickman commented: “The training centre is developing vital skills which are seeding industry in the region and far beyond, bringing on the next generation of manufacturing engineers and technicians. During their time at the AMTC they work on real projects and gain invaluable skills needed by UK manufacturing industry.

“Since the AMTC was established, hundreds of apprentices and engineers have been trained and up-skilled, and are now working in the aerospace, automotive, defence, medical and process industries, filling vital roles.”

Antonio Horta-Osorio, Chief Executive of Lloyds Banking Group said: “Our extended sponsorship will see industry benefit from three and a half thousand apprentices, graduates and engineers being trained and developing new skills. This will help address the biggest challenge that manufacturers consistently tell us about – the shortage of skills.

“The apprentices and skilled engineers who emerge from these world class training facilities play a central role in helping to drive up the productivity of the nation. They will be part of broader efforts to rebalance our economy – a more dynamic, open economy that is backed up by long term investment in infrastructure, skills, science and the latest technology.”

The MTC commercial training offering continues to go from strength to strength with many exciting new developments over the past few months.

We have launched our new, fully integrated Learning Management System (LMS), allowing learners to log in and manage their learning once signed up to an MTC course. The system provides users with a birds-eye view of their learning, with the ability to track progress and learn (where relevant) at their own pace.

Our in-house team is also expanding and our expertise growing, with new instructional designers working with MTC subject matter experts to develop an increasingly diverse range of courses, as well as being able to create bespoke courses for clients.

Our in-house expertise stretches across the entire spectrum of course development, design and delivery. The process is thorough and truly end-to-end, so you know with any MTC course it has followed best practice guidelines from the leading experts in their respective fields from start to finish.

As part of our competency framework approach, we define the required skills, knowledge and behaviours for each given area, before designing the curriculum, training needs analysis and developing the course, again all in-house. We also pride ourselves on course delivery, with our MTC experts delivering our courses onsite or online using the latest technologies.

In pursuit of our mission to provide the Advanced Manufacturing skills needed for the technology of today and the future, we have also partnered with the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) to collaboratively deliver a full range of metallurgy courses.

And lastly, MTC Apprenticeships will now provide a springboard to CPD opportunities available with MTC Training, following the recent expansion into Degree level qualifications. This means learners can continue their journey with MTC and build on their knowledge and skills in specialist areas post-Degree level.