Introduction to Additive Manufacturing

Don’t miss the boat! Additive manufacturing is gaining more and more attention with increasing fields of applications. In this course you will learn the necessary basics using practical examples. Get to know the individual advantages of each printing technique and you will soon be able to benefit from these new technologies soon.

The online course takes place in English with a duration of 3 hours per day.

Content
Material science of plastics
Production processes and polymer structures
Filler materials
Part properties, shrinkage and warpage
Preparation steps, e. g. drying
Basics of plastics 3D-printing processes
Extrusion based processes
Fused Layer Modeling (FLM)
Arburg Plastic Freeforming (APF)
Continous Filament Fabrication (CFF) 
Powder bed based processes
Laser Sintering (LS)
Multi Jet Fusion (MJF)
High Speed Sintering (HSS)
Selective Absorption Fusion (SAF)
Resin based processes
Stereolithography (SLA)
Digital Light Processing (DLP) 
Poly Jet Modeling (PJM)    
Process preparation (FLM/ APF/ LS)
Post-processing methods
CAD rules for different 3D printing techniques