Looking to advance your additive manufacturing skills?
The answer is Online & Live

The COVID-19 pandemic may have put the brakes on face-to-face training, but you can still make serious strides with your advanced manufacturing skills – with individual support from the National Centre for Additive Manufacturing’s world-class engineers.

MTC Training’s Online & Live courses deliver fully interactive, trainer-led education across a live web-based platform – so you get coaching from the nation’s top AM experts and instant collaboration opportunities with like-minded learners. The Online & Live programme sharpens your AM design, implementation and processing knowledge in an innovative, accessible format that promises:

  • Live courses at scheduled dates and times
  • A capped 10:1 trainer-to-learner ratio, fuelling one-to-one guidance and insightful group exchanges
  • Maximum engagement with your trainer, a top tier AM professional
  • Dynamic peer-to-peer discussion
  • Challenging independent and team tasks
  • Ongoing communication and feedback

Whether you’re a business leader exploring the potential of additive manufacturing or an ambitious engineer taking your ability to the next level, Online & Live courses provide cutting-edge education without compromise. Check out our course menu below and sign up before 1st April 2021 to

Advanced Introduction to Additive Manufacturing
Would additive manufacturing work within your operation? This one-day virtual classroom course, – aimed at managers, leaders and decision makers, – helps you picture the possibilities with an extensive overview of AM’s associated principles, protocols, materials and design approaches. Get live tuition from an industry trailblazer, a comprehensive comparison of all AM processes and their characteristics, and the know-how to determine when – and if – AM techniques could deliver time, cost and creative benefits for your business.

Design for Metal Powder Bed Fusion
This two-day interactive online course is your first step to AM design freedom. The course will give you the understanding of when to use AM, through down-selection criteria and post processing, in line with established Powder Bed Fusion DfM (Design for Manufacture) considerations. With point-by-point guidance from qualified AM technicians, design engineers will rediscover the development journey in relation to additive manufacturing suitability, material and process selection.

Implementing Powder Management
Bring to life a far-reaching powder management framework for your entire business. Created for graduates and experienced engineers looking to boost their organisation’s metal powder management procedures, this one-day Online & Live course helps you elevate health and safety standards, shape strategy and improve powder-related documentation, protocols and traceability systems. MTC Training’s materials quality engineering team steers you through the full powder management lifecycle – from developing processes to devising a detailed action plan, ready for implementation.

Laser Processing
Get to grips with laser processing technologies and their current capabilities, limitations and applications. Within a small group of graduates and engineering technicians, you’ll unlock the finer details of metrology and metallurgy, laser safety and materials processing, pinpointing at least one practice to put to work in your own organisation. As part of this one-day online course, you’ll learn from examples of process failures, the effects of analysis to process configurations – from the leading expertise of MTC’s skilled engineers.

Ready to learn more or want to register? Take a closer look at your Online & Live course options – including our 20% discount offer until 30th September 2021 – or chat to the MTC Training team on 024 7670 1774 or training@the-mtc.org.