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The MTC’s cutting edge training courses help to develop, enable and inspire your workforce, providing tangible business improvements and a return on investment. Take a look at our courses below and book now.
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Additive Manufacturing
Reverse Engineering Parts for AM – Online & Live
Method: Online & Live Level: Intermediate Cost: £300 +VAT Duration: 1 Day
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This course will enable you to design an appropriate process to reverse engineer a selected part so that it can be made using AM.
Additive Manufacturing
Inspection and Testing of AM parts – Online & Live
Method: Online & Live Level: Introduction Cost: £300 +VAT Duration: 1 Day
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This course will enable you to identify the benefits and features associated with the inspection and testing techniques used to certify and validate AM parts.
Digitalisation
Digitalising Your Manufacturing Business Certificate
Level: Introduction Cost: £100 +VAT Duration: 4.5 Hours
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Many manufacturing SMEs recognise that digitalisation could transform their business for tomorrow – but can’t move past the challenges of today. This interactive three-part certificate course delivers relevant, practical, sector-specific insights to fuel your first steps towards data-driven operations. Throughout the course series, our experts demystify digitalisation and share the significant benefits it offers to your business’s processes and productivity levels.Start your journey now
Digitalisation
Exploring the Benefits of Digitalisation
Method: Online learning Level: Introduction Cost: Free Duration: 1.5 Hours
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This first course in our online certificate delivers practical skills and proven industry insights to help you begin to shape your digitalisation pathway. Guided by skilled Subject Matter Experts, you’ll discover the benefits that data and digitalisation can bring to your manufacturing processes and gain the confidence to start planning how to identify and engage the right expertise, resources, and support to bring those benefits to life.
Digitalisation
Realising the Value of Data
Method: Online learning Level: Introduction Cost: £75 +VAT Duration: 1.5 Hours
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When it comes to digitalisation, everyone’s needs are different – and the sheer volume and variety of available solutions can feel overwhelming. This second course in our three-part online certificate cuts through the noise. You’ll discover the right data and digitalisation technologies and enablers to tackle the specific organisational goals you identified in Step 1.
Digitalisation
Developing your Digitalisation Action Plan
Method: Online learning Level: Introduction Cost: £75 +VAT Duration: 1.5 Hours
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Whatever your starting point, this third course in our online certificate series guides you through a practical planning process that will help you to begin your journey. Supported by experienced subject matter experts, you’ll create personalised plan of action that will help to drive meaningful improvements – through both quick wins and longer-term projects – now and in the future. You’ll apply a logical, systematic methodology to the most relevant areas of your organisation, fuelling performance benefits linked directly to your strategic goals and key performance indicators (KPIs).
Partnerships
Introduction to Lean – IMR
Method: Online learning Level: Introduction Cost: €567 +VAT Duration: 7 Hours
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This course is an introduction to the methods of Lean and Six Sigma and the contribution they make to improving a process. These approaches to process improvement reduce waste, boost productivity, and increase overall profitability. Lean Six Sigma can be successfully implemented in organizations of every size and in all sectors of industry.
Automation & Robotics - Partnerships
Innovation Through Robotics – IMR
Method: Online learning Level: Introduction Cost: €2000 +VAT Duration: 5 Days
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On successful completion of this CPD accredited, signature course, you will be able to identify and evaluate deployment opportunities for robotics and automation in your organization and identify where the greatest business impact can be achieved. Throughout this course you will be supported by IMRs expert instructors in putting together
an innovation approach, specific to your business.
Automation & Robotics - Partnerships
Introduction to Industrial Internet of Things – IMR
Method: Online learning Level: Introduction Cost: €567 +VAT Duration: 1 Day
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In this course, Mike Hibbett - a veteran of IIoT hardware design provides a broad, un-biased introductory overview of Industrial Internet of Things.
Automation & Robotics - Partnerships
Machine Learning & Data Science – IMR
Method: Online learning Level: Introduction Cost: €567 +VAT Duration: 1 Day
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In this series of presentations, Dr Brian O'Halloran - a highly experienced data scientist - provides a broad and unbiased overview of the machine learning landscape, from the introductory building blocks to more state-of-the-art approaches, with an overall lean towards uses in the manufacturing domain.
Additive Manufacturing
Best Practice in Powder Characterisation – Online & Live
Method: Online & Live Level: Introduction Cost: £600.00 +VAT Duration: 2 Days
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This course will provide you with the necessary skills and knowledge to be able to identify and apply best practice powder characterisation methods and establish if a powder meets a desired standard.
Additive Manufacturing
The Powder Management bundle
Level: Introduction Cost: £327.98 +VAT
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Start your journey to becoming a Powder Management expert today
Just £327.98 (+VAT)
Additive Manufacturing
Design for Additive Manufacturing bundle
Level: Introduction Cost: £579.98 +VAT
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Start your journey to becoming a Design for Additive Manufacturing expert today!
Just £579.98 (+VAT)
Additive Manufacturing
Advanced Introduction to Additive Manufacturing – Online & Live
Method: Online & Live Level: Introduction Cost: £300 +VAT Duration: 1 Day
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Delivered online by our expert engineering team at the home of the National Centre for Additive Manufacturing (NCAM), this virtual classroom course will provide you with knowledge of the associated principles, processes, materials and design approaches of additive manufacturing.
Additive Manufacturing
Design for Metal Powder Bed Fusion – Online & Live
Method: Online & Live Level: Introduction Cost: £600 +VAT Duration: 2 Days
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This interactive online course will provide you with the necessary skills and knowledge to be able to exploit the design freedom of Additive Manufacturing and take a design from conception through to AM processing.
Additive Manufacturing
Implementing Powder Management – Online & Live
Method: Online & Live Level: Introduction Cost: £300 +VAT Duration: 1 Day
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Delivered by our expert materials quality engineering team, this online course will provide you with the tools to develop a comprehensive powder management framework you can apply to your organisation.
Laser Processing
Laser Processing – Online & Live
Method: Online & Live Level: Introduction Cost: £300 +VAT Duration: 1 Day
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Delivered online by our expert engineering team here at the MTC, this course will introduce you to laser processing technologies, their capabilities, limitations and what applications are currently available.
Additive Manufacturing
Foundation Certificate in Additive Manufacturing
Level: Introduction Cost: £399 +VAT
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Start your journey to becoming an Additive Manufacturing expert today
Just £319.20 (+VAT)
Take MTC Training’s first fully online certificate in partnership with the National Centre for Additive Manufacturing (NCAM).
Designed as an introduction to additive manufacturing by experts from the national centre, you’ll get to grips with this disruptive technology and receive an NCAM endorsed certificate.
Laser Processing
Laser Processing
Method: Face to Face Level: Introduction Cost: £900 +VAT Duration: 2 Days
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The overall aim of this course is to increase the awareness, amongst potential users, of laser materials processing technology, its capabilities, applications and limitations. The course will be a mixture of classroom lectures and hands-on practical experience using industrial laser systems.
Additive Manufacturing
Reverse Engineering Parts by Additive Manufacturing
Method: Face to Face Level: Intermediate Cost: £450 +VAT Duration: 1 Day
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This course will enable you to design an appropriate process to reverse engineer a selected part so that it can be made using AM.
Additive Manufacturing
Design for Polymer Powder Bed Fusion
Method: Face to Face Level: Intermediate Cost: £900 +VAT Duration: 2 Days
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This hands-on practical course will provide you with the necessary skills and knowledge to be able to exploit the design freedom of polymer Additive Manufacturing and take a design from conception through to AM processing.
Additive Manufacturing
Essential Requirements Capture for Additive Manufacturing
Method: Online learning Level: Introduction Cost: £25 +VAT Duration: 0.5 Hour
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This online course will provide engineers with a clear process to ensure that they capture all requirements for a particular AM part or assembly such that it can be designed and made to match the client’s needs.
Additive Manufacturing
Best Practice in Powder Handling
Method: Face to Face Level: Introduction Cost: £900 +VAT Duration: 2 Days
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This 2 day face to face course will provide you with the necessary skills and knowledge to be able to safely handle and process AM powders, mainly metals, but also polymers, and will demonstrate the various stages involved from initial receipt through to disposal.
Additive Manufacturing
Design for Metal Powder Bed Fusion
Method: Online learning Level: Advanced Cost: £399.00 +VAT Duration: 8 Hours
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Using a mix of interactive videos featuring experts from within the Design for Additive Manufacture team from the National Centre for Additive Manufacturing (NCAM), online discussions, software simulations and self-paced activities, this online course will provide you with the necessary skills and knowledge that you need to be able to exploit the design freedom of additive manufacturing.
It will take you through the stages needed, from conception to the design of a component using best practice methods and appropriate software, to ensure that your component is optimised for function and manufacturing via metal powder bed fusion additive methods.
Additive Manufacturing
Best Practice in Powder Management
Method: Face to Face Level: Intermediate Cost: £450 +VAT Duration: 1 Day
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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.
Additive Manufacturing
Design Rules for Electron Beam Powder Bed Fusion
Method: Online learning Level: Advanced Cost: £49.99 +VAT Duration: 1 Hour
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Upon completion of this course you will be able to prepare a model fit for submission to a bureau to be manufactured using Electron Beam Powder Bed Fusion.
Additive Manufacturing
Developing the Business Case for Additive Manufacturing Adoption
Method: Online learning Level: Intermediate Cost: £399 +VAT Duration: 8 Hours
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This course will enable you to develop a business case for using AM for a selected application. You will gain skills in using a process-based approach to: define the costs for each production step; consider the opportunities and benefits of AM for the selected component; and develop a recommendation based on a quantified value of AM to the business and end user.
Other
Design for Manufacture & Assembly for Construction
Method: Online learning Level: Introduction Cost: Free Duration: 1 Hour
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Delivered by our experts, this course aims to help you understand the unique opportunities available to you through Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA) as well as considering the benefits and challenges which come with introducing DfMA into your business.
Additive Manufacturing
Advanced Introduction to Additive Manufacturing
Method: Face to Face Level: Intermediate Cost: £450 +VAT Duration: 1 Day
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Delivered at the home of the National Centre for Additive Manufacturing (NCAM) by our expert engineering team, this 1 day face-to-face course will provide you with the knowledge of the associated principles, processes, materials and design approaches for Industrial 3D printing.
Additive Manufacturing
Best Practice in Process Selection
Method: Face to Face Level: Intermediate Cost: £450 +VAT Duration: 1 Day
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During this one day course you will compare the 7 ASTM defined processes in Additive Manufacturing, along with their sub-processes. You will work through realistic case studies, applying part selection and down selection principles and gradually put together a case for its technical, commercial and overall feasibility using a given technology. You will then apply this methodology to select an appropriate manufacturing unit.
Additive Manufacturing
Practical Insight into Directed Energy Deposition
Method: Face to Face Level: Intermediate Cost: £1350 +VAT Duration: 3 Days
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Delivered by the expert engineers from the National Centre for Additive Manufacturing. This course will give participants practical experience of the end-to-end processes needed for Industrial Directed Energy Deposition; including design, materials, technology, production and post-processing.
Additive Manufacturing
A Guide to Additive Manufacturing for Engineers Part 1
Method: Online learning Level: Introduction Cost: £Free +VAT Duration: 0.5 Hours
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This highly interactive online learning course will provide you with insight into each of the seven Additive Manufacturing (AM) processes and their associated materials. The course will help you make an informed decision about whether Industrial 3D printing can be adopted by your business.
Additive Manufacturing
A Guide to Additive Manufacturing for Engineers Part 2
Method: Online learning Level: Intermediate Cost: £99.98 +VAT Duration: 2 Hours
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The second part of this interactive online course will provide further insight into Additive Manufacturing (AM), focusing on the seven AM processes and their associated materials. This final part of the training will help you decide whether to adopt Industrial 3D printing into your manufacturing processes.
Additive Manufacturing
Best Practice in Process Selection
Method: Online learning Level: Intermediate Cost: £49.99 +VAT Duration: 1 Hour
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On this compact four-module course you will learn how to select the most appropriate technology for your requirements. Includes our unique two-stage process selection tool which helps narrow down the available processes on a total of 18 criteria. Our methodology can also be used to select the most appropriate machine in a given technology.
Additive Manufacturing
Design Rules for Laser Powder Bed Fusion
Method: Online learning Level: Advanced Cost: £49.99 +VAT Duration: 1 Hour
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Upon completion of this course you will be able to prepare a model fit for submission to a bureau to be manufactured using Laser Powder Bed Fusion.
Additive Manufacturing
Bespoke Training in Additive Manufacturing
Level: Introduction Cost: £POA +VAT
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Additive Manufacturing
Design for Metal Powder Bed Fusion
Method: Face to Face Level: Intermediate Cost: £1350 +VAT Duration: 3 Days
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This 3 day face-to-face course, delivered at the home of the National Centre for Additive Manufacturing (NCAM) by our expert engineering team, will provide you with all the necessary skills and knowledge to be able to exploit the design freedom that Industrial 3D printing offers. Learn how to take a design from conception through to processing including material selection.
Additive Manufacturing
Practical Insight into Metal Powder Bed Fusion
Method: Face to Face Level: Intermediate Cost: £2250 +VAT Duration: 5 Days
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This 5 day face-to-face course is delivered by the expert engineering team from the National Centre for Additive Manufacturing (NCAM). You will get practical experience of the end-to-end processes needed for Industrial 3D printing, including design, production and post-processing required for Metal Powder Bed Fusion
Additive Manufacturing
Health, Safety, Risks and Mitigation
Method: Online learning Level: Introduction Cost: £99.98 +VAT Duration: 2 Hours
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This interactive online course will provide you with the necessary skills and knowledge to apply Health and Safety (H&S) best practice guidelines when using loose powders, equipment, materials and post processing. You will learn to recognise unsafe practices, the risks, and how to apply appropriate mitigation techniques.
Automation & Robotics
Introduction to Robot Programming
Method: Face to Face Level: Intermediate Cost: £1975 +VAT Duration: 5 Days
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This practical 5 day face to face course will give you the key skills to work with a 6 axis industrial robot cell. Starting with basic programming, moving onto troubleshooting and recovery techniques, our experts will teach you all you need to know to work effectively with a robot.
Automation & Robotics
Implementing Automation & Robotics
Method: Online learning Level: Intermediate Cost: Free +VAT Duration: 1 Hour
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Developed by the MTC’s Robotics & Automation experts, this online learning course will provide you with the skills and knowledge to help you make informed decisions about the introduction of automation and robotics to your business.
Other
Introduction to Digital Manufacturing
Method: Online learning Level: Introduction Cost: £24.99 +VAT Duration: 0.5 Hours
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This course has been developed by the MTC’s Digital Manufacturing experts to help you make informed decisions on the implementation of digital tools into your manufacturing processes.
Additive Manufacturing
A Guide to Design for Metal Powder Bed Fusion
Method: Online learning Level: Intermediate Cost: £149.97 +VAT Duration: 3 Hours
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Delivered by experts from the home of the National Centre for Additive Manufacturing (NCAM) the aim of this course is to help you appreciate and contextualise the unique design opportunities opened up by Industrial 3D Printing, as well as considering the challenges which come when designing for this rapidly evolving technology.