Training Needs Analysis Tool
What’s missing from your AM skillset? Find out now with MTC’s Training Needs Analysis Tool
In the fast-developing environment of additive manufacturing, mapping out the right training programme for yourself or your team can be challenging. Many engineers have a sense of their ideal learning path – but when dealing with limited training budgets, investment should be shaped by insight, not instinct.
A training needs analysis allows businesses and individuals to systematically evaluate and pinpoint knowledge gaps, then create a bespoke development plan to address them. Regular reviews also help you keep pace with emerging technology trends, so you never lose competitive advantage.
Identify skills requirements with a single online tool
MTC’s free, user-friendly Training Needs Analysis (TNA) tool provides a simple, yet highly specialised, method of identifying skills shortfalls. Designed for both engineers and managers, a series of speedy online assessments evaluate key AM competences, highlighting areas that could benefit from further development.
You set the parameters from the outset – specifying subject area, sector, position and specialism – so the tool’s scenario-based questions identify the expertise required for your current role and the know-how you’ll need as your career progresses.
Shape the way forward for yourself or your team
Whether you’re an ambitious engineer planning your next step or a manager strengthening your team’s capabilities, the TNA tool can help you set intelligent targets.
TNA scenarios cover fundamental AM processes – including power bed fusion for metals and polymers – and present real-life challenges across the entire additive manufacturing lifecycle:
- Requirements capture
- Concept design
- Design for manufacture
- Preparation and process simulation
- Manufacture
- Post-processing and inspection
Individuals can create personalised logins and revisit their results at any time. The flexible tool is perfectly suited to support design engineers, engineering technicians, quality engineers and manufacturing and production engineers. And to reflect AM’s quickly changing climate and deliver truly customised results, the software is also constantly updated with new skills and functions.
Meanwhile, team leader dashboards provide an instant overview of all direct reports. This tailored 24/7 interface allows you to effortlessly assign assessments, manage multiple sets of data and track the training needs of your entire team.
Access made-to-measure training plans
Following your training needs analysis, you’ll receive customised course recommendations to boost your skillset.
MTC’s additive manufacturing courses are taught by industry experts from the National Centre for Additive Manufacturing. They range from hands-on technical instruction covering materials management, processes and design principles to commercially focused courses that help build a strong AM business case.
Modules are delivered in several formats to suit your schedule and skills needs, including virtual classrooms, face-to-face instruction and fully interactive, trainer-led Online & Live courses.
Try the Training Needs Analysis tool
MTC’s Training Needs Analysis tool is available around the clock, so get started today with your team or individual assessment.
Prefer to speak to a training specialist? We’re always on hand to help plan your ideal learning journey. Talk to the team on training@the-mtc.org or call 02476 701774.
