Best Practice in Powder Management
Delivered by our expert Materials Quality engineering team, this face-to-face course will provide you with a comprehensive powder management framework you can apply to your organisation.
Is this course for you?
- Do you manage a team that works (or will work) with metal powders?
- Are you considering bringing powder-based additive technologies into your organisation and need to know how to set up a powder management strategy?
- Are you looking to improve your current powder-related documentation, protocols or traceability systems?
If you answered ‘yes’ to any of the above, this course is for you.
Delivery | Face to Face |
Duration | 1 Day |
Cost | £450 +VAT |
Location | Coventry |
Level | Intermediate |
Target Audience
This course is aimed at senior engineers, managers, business owners.
Learning Objectives
- Justify the rationale behind implementing a powder management system and outline what can happen without a strategy in place.
- Outline best-practice H&S documentation and management strategies.
- Correctly map the powder lifecycle from procurement to disposal.
- Apply best-practice powder management strategies to each stage of the powder’s journey.
- Identify effective methods for organisation, gaining buy-in, and achieving your desired outcomes.
Course Content
Introduction
- Case Studies to provide context
Health and Safety
- How to implement e.g. documentation to demonstrate process adherence
- Safe System of Work, record retention, document register
Powder lifecycle
- Procurement
- Validation on arrival
- Storage / quarantine
- Release into production
- Production (use, recycling, top-up, waste, sampling and testing)
- Return to storage
- Disposal
- Shipping
- Monitoring and record keeping throughout
Best Practice:
- Procurement
- Validation
- Storage / quarantine
- Release into production
- Production
- Return to storage
- Disposal
- Shipping
- Monitoring and record keeping
Process Development
- Techniques for process development and implementation
- Gaining buy-in