The 'Metal Additive Manufacturing' learning network

If you are a manufacturing company looking for practical real-world examples, this programme is tailor-made for you. If you are looking for inspiration to integrate current trends into your process, you will certainly find it in the stories that our industrial stakeholders will tell.

Experiences are shared, insights are gained, questions are answered and new contacts are made. The ideal starting point for boosting your metal printing challenge!

This series focuses on working practice. Specialists and experience experts explain themes based on practical examples. There will be a good range of testimonials from different angles dealing with various metal printing technologies. In each session there is opportunity for dialogue so that you can put your questions to the experts and the companies making the presentations. We are confident that this is how you will learn the most!

What will you find out?

• An overview of the various metal am technologies (powder bed, direct energy deposition, WAAM…)
• Where the challenges lie in using or adopting metal AM
• Which pitfalls need to be avoided
• How quality can be guaranteed
• The equipment currently available for each technology
• How software forms the common thread in metal AM
• The importance of design and co-creation
• The options and limitations for finishing
• The areas of application where metal AM is valuable
• The players that are active in the Belgian metal AM ecosystem

All the way in four sessions

Interested? Reserve the dates below in your agenda and register for the next sessions via this link.

• Tuesday, 28 September 2021: physical meeting on location at BIL/IBS in Ghent
• Thursday, 28 October 2021: physical meeting on location at Sirris & CRM in Liège
• Wednesday, 1 December 2021: physical meeting on location at Signify
• Tuesday, 1 February 2022: physical meeting on location at Deceuninck

The price for a Learning Network is € 2,346. Companies in Flanders pay only € 750 due to the support of VLAIO in the context of the #industriepartnership (https://www.industriepartnerschap.be/).

This learning network forms part of the Industrial Partnership, in which 17 Flemish innovation partners offer integrated services for stimulating growth and innovation in Flemish industry in the following 3 areas: Digitization, Sustainability, Industry 4.0. They do so under the leadership of Agoria and Sirris and with the support of Agentschap Innoveren & Ondernemen.