Additive Manufacturing for

Product Innovation
Graduate Diploma from Singapore Institute of
Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech)
Course Information
• Course duration: 1 year, 2 lessons per week.
• Total of 5 modules
• 3D Additive Manufacturing Technologies and Design for Additive Manufacturing
• High Speed Metallic 3D Additive Manufacturing
• Large Format Complex Metallic 3D Additive Manufacturing
• Liquid-based Polymeric 3D Additive Manufacturing
• Solid-based Polymeric 3D Additive Manufacturing
(more detail at the back)

• Total cost: S$1,284 per module

Nett: S$6,420

• Training venue: 2 Fusionopolis Way, Innovis, Level 8, Singapore 138634

Module Detail
1. 3D Additive Manufacturing Technologies and Design for Additive
Manufacturing
• Fundamentals, characteristics of AM processes and materials for AM
• Equipment for AM, general applications and post-processing requirements for AM
• International standards and Workplace Safety and Health (WSH) regulations
• Computer-aided design CAD environments, nomenclature for AM, manufacturing constraints
• Optimised support structure placement
• Principles of computational analysis
• Fundamentals of topology optimisation for AM
• Reverse engineering

2. High Speed Metallic 3D Additive Manufacturing

• Metallic powder production techniques. Metallic powder characterisation
• Fundamentals of high speed metallic additive manufacturing techniques, processes and applications
• Applications and operational parameters of electron beam melting (EBM) machines
• Applications and operational parameters of laser-aided additive manufacturing (LAAM) machines
Module Detail
3. Large Format Complex Metallic 3D Additive Manufacturing
• Material considerations and metallurgy
• Thermodynamic characteristics of metals and alloys
• Materials’ characterisations
• Applications and operational parameters of selective laser melting (SLM) technology
• Applications and operational parameters of metal binder jetting technology

4. Liquid-based Polymeric 3D Additive Manufacturing

• Material characterisation and analysis
• Applications and operational parameters of stereolithography (SLA) technology
• Applications and operational parameters of 3D polymer jetting technology
• Applications and operational parameters of 3D bioprinting technology
• Product performance, strengths and limitations of liquid-based polymeric AM
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5. Solid-based Polymeric 3D Additive Manufacturing
• Strengths and limitations of solid-based polymeric AM techniques
• Polymeric material characterisation
• Solid-based polymeric AM product performance
• Applications and operational parameters of selective laser sintering (SLS) technology
• Applications and operational parameters of powder-bed inkjet 3D printing technology
• Applications and operational parameters of fused deposition modelling (FDM) technology