This highly interactive eLearning course will provide you with an insight of each of the seven AM process and their associated materials, helping you make an informed decision about whether AM can be adopted by your business

Estimated guided learning time: 20mins online

Cost: FREE

The course aims to provide a sound understanding of the scientific principles of metallurgy and how to apply them to specify & process metals in an industrial context. Some prior understanding of metallurgical principles is assumed.

Target Audience: Professionals who work in the production, processing, specification, design, fabrication or selling of metals. The course is suited to, for example; production, technical, quality control, product design and marketing & sales professionals.

Forthcoming available dates:

26th & 27th March 2019

10th & 11th September 2019

Price: £560.00 +VAT

Delivered directly by our expert engineering team at the home of the National Centre for Additive Manufacturing, this face-to-face course will provide you with knowledge of the associated principles, processes, materials and design approaches of additive manufacturing.

Target Audience: This 1 day face-to-face course is aimed at business leaders, decision makers and anyone with an interest in discussing Additive Manufacturing with the Nation’s experts.

Forthcoming available dates:

Monday 4th March 2019 (Closed for public bookings, allocated to DRAMA)

Wednesday 8th May 2019

Tuesday 25th June 2019

Tuesday 10th September 2019

Delivered live from the home of the National Centre for Additive  Manufacturing, this online classroom session enables you with the opportunity to hear and see presentations from our AM team and engage in an ‘ask the expert’ session from the convenience of any location.

Target Audience: This virtual classroom session is aimed at Design Engineers who want an initial insight into design for AM.

Forthcoming available dates:



Tuesday 5th March 1pm (GMT)

Tuesday 19th March 1pm (GMT)

Friday 5th April 1pm (GMT)

Friday 10th May 1pm (GMT)

Friday 7th June 1pm (GMT)

Friday 5th July 1pm (GMT)

Friday 13th September 1pm (GMT)

Delivered live from the home of the National Centre for Additive  Manufacturing, this online classroom session enables you with the opportunity to hear and see presentations from our AM team and engage in an ‘ask the expert’ session from the convenience of any location.

Target Audience: This virtual classroom session is aimed at business leaders, decision makers and anyone with an interest in learning more about Additive Manufacturing.

Forthcoming available dates:

Monday 13th May 1pm (GMT)

Monday 10th June 1pm (GMT)

Monday 15th July 1pm (GMT)

Monday 9th September 1pm (GMT)

Price £95.00 + VAT

This hands-on practical 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.

Target Audience: This 3 day practical course is aimed at Design Engineers who are interesting in adopting additive manufacturing.

Forthcoming available dates:

12th -14th February 2019

12th - 14th March 2019 (Closed for public booking, allocated to DRAMA)

9th - 11th April 2019

4th - 6th June 2019

17th - 19th September 2019

This highly interactive eLearning course will provide you with an insight of each of the seven AM process and their associated materials, helping you make an informed decision about whether AM can be adopted by your business.

This eLearning course is split into 9 short manageable modules aimed at business leaders, decision makers and anyone with an interest in learning more about Additive Manufacturing.

Estimated guided learning time: 90mins

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Price: Was 295.00 Now £147.00 + VAT

This highly interactive eLearning 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.

Target Audience: This eLearning course is aimed at Design Engineers who are interesting in adopting additive manufacturing.

Estimated guided learning time: 3 hours

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This course will enable you to start your digital transformation journey more effectively by having informed conversations with partners, identifying opportunities based on value and addressing barriers in the process.

Target Audience: This course is for Designer Engineers, Manufacturing Engineers, Product Designers, Research Engineers, or Technical Managers with an interest of integrating digital tolls into manufacturing.

Forthcoming available dates:

Thursday 7th March 2019 - 9:30am (GMT)

Wednesday 3rd April 2019 - 1pm (GMT)

Wednesday 1st May 2019 - 1pm (GMT)

Wednesday 29th May 2019 - 1pm (GMT)

Wednesday 26th June 2019 - 1pm (GMT)

Wednesday 11th September - 1pm (GMT)

Developed by the MTC's Robotics and Automation experts, this eLearning course will provide you with the skills and knowledge to help you make informed decisions concerning the introduction of automation and robotics to your business.

Target Audience: This eLearning course is for individuals who are considering or have been tasked with introducing automation and robotics into their businesses.

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Delivered by the MTC's Chief Engineer - Intelligent Automation, this blended course will provide you with the necessary tools, techniques and processes to evaluate the opportunity, develop the business case and deploy the implementation plan to integrate automation and robotics into your business.

Is this course for you?

• Do you need to remain competitive by introducing automation and robotics into your business, but don’t know how to get started?

• Do you need to know how to realise the business benefits, how to overcome the barriers-to-entry and put together a robust business case and implementation plan?

  If you’ve answered ‘yes’ to any of these, then this course is definitely for you

  Target Audience: This course is for decision makers within a business who are considering or have been tasked with introducing automation and robotics into their businesses. Attendees will include senior engineers, project managers, finance teams or business owners of SMEs etc.

  Learning Objectives:

  Upon completion of this blended course, you will be able to:
  

• Concisely articulate what automation is, and what it is not

• Describe the multitude of benefits of utilising automation

• Identify the barriers-to-entry and how to overcome or mitigate them

• Perform an evaluation as to when automation will benefit a given process

• Utilise various business tools, techniques and processes for when implementing automation

  Course Contents:

  In order to minimise your valuable time away from your place of work, this course has been designed using a 'blended learning' approach. This means different delivery methods are used in conjunction with each other and allows certain elements to be completed on-line, at your convenience.

  The course is broken down into three parts:

  Part 1: Online eLearning Module (0.5hrs duration)

  To be completed prior to 24th October 2018

  This eLearning module takes the seemingly complex subject matter, and through the use of engaging animations, video and interactive activities, simplifies the content to make it easy to digest whilst you learn at your own pace.

  Part 2: Face-to-Face Workshop at the MTC Coventry (8hrs duration)

  24th October 2018

  This workshop takes you through the entire process of implementing automation within your business. During the session you will:
  

• Review real-life case studies of automation in use and identify the benefits realised

• Have peer-to-peer discussions will other course delegates to explore both the tangible and intangible benefits of implementing automation

• Working in groups to explore the various barriers to implementing automation and agreeing how best to overcome or mitigate them.

• Learn the techniques and key factors used to evaluate if automation is viable, then apply those techniques to industry-based case studies

• Identify the various factors that need to be considered when performing a return-on-investment (ROI) analysis, then apply those factors within a business case

• Work through each step of the implementation process and practice using the associated tools and techniques within each step

• The workshop concludes with the issuing of a work based exercise that is designed to help you apply the techniques learnt during the workshop within the real world

  Part 3: Online Virtual Classroom Surgery

  23rd November 2018 (From 10am)

  A live, on-line virtual classroom session where you can walk through you work-based exercises (from part-2) and gain peer-to-peer feedback on your findings, with expert advice. Additionally, the session provides you with an opportunity to speak directly with our experts confidentially about your current projects and challenges. 

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Delivered directly by our expert engineering team at the home of the National Centre for Additive Manufacturing, this face-to-face course will provide you with practical experience of the end-to-end processes, including the design, production and post-processing required for AM.

Target Audience: This 5 day face-to-face course is for anyone in a Senior Engineering role wanting hands-on experience in Additive Manufacturing.

Forthcoming available dates:

4th - 8th February 2019 (Closed for public booking, allocated to DRAMA)

29th April - 3rd May 2019

8th - 12th July 2019

30th September - 4th October 2019

Timings are 9am-5pm Monday to Thursday, course will finish mid afternoon on the Friday.

Delivered by experts from the MTC's Digital Engineering team, this live online virtual classroom course will provide you with a technical insight into how simulation/computer aided virtual environments (CAVE) are enhancing the manufacturing and production processes.

Target Audience: This course is for Design Engineers, Manufacturing Engineers, Product Designers, Research Engineers, or Technical Managers with an interest of integrating simulation tools into their manufacturing processes.

Forthcoming available dates:

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Delivered by senior consultants from the MTC's Manufacturing Operations Efficiency (MOE) team, this course will improve your understanding of Lean and Continuous Improvement techniques and enable you to identify how they can be implemented within your own organisation.

Target Audience: This course is for individuals who are considering, or have been tasked with investigating how to improve business performance: Owners, Senior Leaders, Technical Specialists, Production Engineers, Quality and Design Engineers and Programme Managers. The audience should also have a detailed knowledge of the organization's business processes and a clear reason for course participation.

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Delivered by the MTC's Chief Technologist in Robotics and Automation, this course will provide you with the necessary tools, techniques and processes to evaluate the opportunity, develop the business case and deploy the implementation plan to integrate automation into your business.

Target Audience: This course is for decision makers within a business who are considering or have been tasked with introducing automation into their businesses. Attendees will include senior engineers, project managers, finance teams or business owners of SMEs etc.

The course, designed by the MTC, is being part funded by the European Commission and in a partnership between three of Europe's leading research organisations including the Danish Technological Institute, Fraunhofer IPA and Tecnalia to support the development of European manufacturing and the use of robotics and automated processes.

AS A RESULT, WE CAN OFFER THIS COURSE WITH AN 87% DISCOUNT: NOW £100 + VAT (normally £790 - discount will be taken off at check out)

Forthcoming available dates:

Dates TBC

Delivered by the MTC's Research Engineering team, this course will provide the skill and knowledge to reduce costs by correctly interpreting, drawing and checking drawings to BS8888.

Target Audience: This course is for anyone who's responsible for interpreting, creating or checking engineering drawings as part of their role, such as: Design, Production and Quality Engineers or Technicians.

Forthcoming available dates:

18th - 20th March 2019

Delivered in collaboration with the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), this course explores the different grades of stainless steel, their processing, properties and uses.

Target Audience: This course is for personnel involved in the production, processing, fabricating, utilising and selling of stainless steels. Professionals involved in the manufacture, supply and use of stainless steels products. The course is delivered at a moderate technical level and assumes only very basic prior knowledge of steel metallurgy.

Forthcoming available dates:

Thursday 21st March 2019

Wednesday 6th November 2019

Delivered in collaboration with the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), this course provides an understanding of the metallurgy & processing of Carbon & Alloy Steels. The course focuses on basic metallurgical principles, primary & secondary steel making processes, how steels are specified & evaluated and matching grades to applications.

Target Audience: Personnel in technical and engineering positions who require a full and detailed understanding of steel metallurgy. New or experienced personnel in technical and engineering occupations, who would benefit from an understanding of steel processing, products & properties. Attendees could be production or process engineers, quality and inspection personnel and could be at supervisory, managerial or professional engineering level.

Forthcoming available dates:

Wednesday 16th October

Price: £334.00 + VAT

This course provides an insight into the techniques used for sample preparation and the operation of optical and scanning electron microscopes. It describes the equipment and methods for extracting samples from metal items, for producing flat surfaces and etching to reveal surface features. The principles on which both types of microscope operate and examples of the images and information that can be obtained are explained.

Target Audience: The course is suitable for after-sales professionals, laboratory staff, marketing and sales professionals in all sectors of engineering. Sectors include, for example, aerospace, automotive, conventional powergen, nuclear and renewable energy. A basic understanding of science and engineering principles is assumed.

Forthcoming available dates:

Wednesday 18th December 2019

This course will provide you with the skills and knowledge to minimise production stoppages through reprogramming or creating new programmes for up to a 6 axis industrial robot cell.

Target Audience: This course is for anyone who will be made responsible for ensuring the continued operation of an industrial robot cell.

Forthcoming available dates:

Dates TBC

Delivered in collaboration with the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), this course provides a full understanding of the principles of metallic corrosion and prevention mechanisms appropriate to a variety of applications.

Target Audience: Engineers and designers of all disciplines involved in the supply of metals and alloys to industries in which corrosion is an issue. The course is also applicable to production and technical staff concerned with the specification, selection and application of corrosion-resistant materials.

Forthcoming available dates:

Wednesday 27th November 2019

Delivered in collaboration with the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), this course provides delegates with a sound understanding of the beneficial effects of heat treatment to a range of ferrous & light metal alloys.

Target Audience: Those that require an overall understanding of the principles and practicalities of heat treatment. This includes purchasers & vendors of heat treatment services, design engineers and quality control technicians.

Forthcoming available dates:

Dates TBC

Delivered in collaboration with the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), this course will address the key aspects of Quality from the perspective of engineering services and product manufacture.

Target Audience: Managerial and operational staff for whom quality systems are relevant. This extends to marketing, sales, design and manufacturing engineers in all industry sectors.

Forthcoming available dates:

Dates TBC

Delivered in collaboration with the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), this course will give you a full understanding of the characteristics of a range of commonly-used non-ferrous alloys, how they are produced and the industrial applications to which they are suited.

Target Audience: This course has been designed for industry professionals engaged in the supply, processing & applications of non-ferrous alloys. It will be of interest to recent graduates, designers, engineers, buyers and sales personnel working in or supplying the aerospace, defence, nuclear, power generation, offshore, chemical, oil & gas, automotive and other industry sectors.

Forthcoming available dates:

Wednesday 4th September 2019

Delivered in collaboration with the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), this course will give you an overview of the primary and down-stream processes involved in the production of major industrial metals, including steel, aluminium, titanium and nickel alloys and their finished components.

Target Audience: Anyone requiring an overall understanding of the processing principles and methods of manufacture of semi finished and finished products made from the major industrial metals including steel, aluminium, titanium and nickel alloys.

Forthcoming available dates:

Wednesday 24th July 2019

Delivered in collaboration with the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), this course will provide you with a basic understanding of the terminology and principles of all aspects of metals processing and applications.

Target Audience: Professionals from all parts of your business who have a grounding in metals or materials science and wish to extend their technical understanding. From Directors to junior staff in Operations, Technical, Quality, Procurement, Sales.

Forthcoming available dates:

Thursday 16th May 2019

Delivered in collaboration with the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), this course will provide you with a working understanding of the test methods used to determine the commonly measured mechanical properties of metals and of non-destructive testing techniques.

Target Audience: Technical and engineering staff involved in the specification and quality control of metals for all applications. This course applies to managers and technicians responsible for the testing of materials and products. It is equally suited to designers, engineers, procurement and business development personnel in all branches of manufacturing engineering.

Forthcoming available dates:

Dates TBC

Due to increasing demands imposed on high-performance metals and the disastrous and costly results of component failures, the need for designers and engineers to gain an understanding of the fundamental principles of failure investigation and analysis is essential. Delivered in collaboration with the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC), this course will enable delegates to determine how and why a metal component has failed or fractured during service and to identify means of detecting and preventing such failures in the future.

Target Audience: This course is suitable for design engineers, production engineers, after-sales professionals, laboratory staff, marketing & sales professionals in all sectors of engineering. It is also applicable to insurance investigators & loss adjusters. Sectors include, for example, aerospace, automotive, conventional powergen, nuclear & renewable energy. A basic understanding of science & engineering principles is assumed.

Forthcoming available dates:

Wednesday 25th September 2019

How to safely use an abrasive wheel machine such as an angle grinder.  The course will cover safe selection and mounting of the correct wheel.

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