Tooling U - SME "Additive Manufacturing Methods and Materials" provides a comprehensive introduction to the methods and materials that can be used in additive manufacturing (AM) including material extrusion, directed energy deposition (DED), material jetting, binder jetting, powder bed fusion (PBF), vat photopolymerization, and sheet lamination. Different AM methods require different materials, and each method provides specific advantages and disadvantages. Understanding each AM method's basic principles, advantages, and disadvantages is essential to ensuring an AM part build's success.
Course Objectives:
- Describe additive manufacturing
- Describe material extrusion
- Describe the build materials used in material extrusion
- Contrast the advantages and disadvantages associated with material extrusion
- Describe directed energy deposition
- Describe the build materials used in directed energy deposition
- Contrast the advantages and disadvantages associated with directed energy deposition
- Describe material jetting and its build materials
- Contrast the advantages and disadvantages associated with material jetting
- Describe binder jetting and its build materials
- Contrast the advantages and disadvantages associated with binder jetting
- Describe powder bed fusion
- Distinguish between powder bed fusion processes
- Contrast the advantages and disadvantages associated with powder bed fusion and its different processes
- Describe vat photopolymerization
- Distinguish between vat photopolymerization processes
- Distinguish between top-down printing and bottom-up printing in vat photopolymerization
- Contrast the advantages and disadvantages associated with vat photopolymerization
- Describe sheet lamination and its advantages and disadvantages
- Describe ultrasonic consolidation and its advantages and disadvantages.
Recommended Background
- Recommended for manufacturing personnel, including supervisors, working with Additive Manufacturing equipment.
Course ID
TU132
Skill Focus
Intermediate
Instructor(s)
Tooling U - SME
Employee Type
New Applicants, Operations teams, 1st level supervisors, Leadership, Change leaders
Method of Delivery
Online
Estimated Effort
3.5 hrs
Cost
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