From Pilot to Profit
A hands-on 8-week program that turns your engineers into AM changemakers — with guaranteed ROI.
Identify and develop 5-10 parts suitable for additive manufacturing
Evaluate cost, performance, and lead-time benefits
Prepare production-ready parts
Empower your engineers to deliver measurable business value with Additive Manufacturing
The Additive Boost Program is a practical, team-based training designed to turn your company’s own parts and challenges into cost-saving, high-impact business cases through industrial 3D printing.
Over 8 weeks, your engineers will work on your own projects to develop validated additive applications that reduce cost, improve performance, or accelerate lead time. By combining targeted sessions, expert coaching, and hands-on work with your own parts, the program ensures not only technical knowledge but tangible return on investment.
Who: Engineers in product development, manufacturing, R&D or management
Group size: 8 Engineers from your company
Level: Higher vocational education (HBO) or equivalent technical experience
Proof: Certificate of participation upon completion
Duration: 4 hands-on training days and 5 online meetings across 8 weeks
Location: At your company location (anywhere worldwide), online, and/or at Brainport Industries Campus
Language: English
Price: €24,950/team
About this workshop program
Additive Manufacturing can offer cost savings, flexibility, and innovative part functionality but only if the right parts and business cases are identified and developed correctly. The Additive Boost Program enables engineers to do exactly that, using their own parts and challenges.
This program is more than just a training—it’s a results-oriented development track. Together with additive manufacturing experts, your team will:
- Identify promising applications in your own product lines
- Evaluate the potential savings and business impact
- Optimize and prepare parts for additive manufacturing production
- Learn to document and present strong additive manufacturing business cases
Whether your goal is reducing part cost, improving technical performance, or speeding up delivery, this program will deliver outcomes you can track and repeat.
Workshop Program
Week 1
2 hands on in-person sessions
- Day 1 – Introduction to Additive Manufacturing
- Day 2 – Company-specific goals and application identification
Week 2
Develop your own application
- Business cases evaluation (online sessions/meetings)
Week 3
Develop your own application
- Optimization and integration of applications (online sessions/meetings)
Week 4
Develop your own application
- Design for manufacturability (online sessions/meetings)
Week 5
Hands on in-person session
- FMEA and FEA analysis for additive applications
Week 6
Develop your own application
- Apply FMEA and FEA (online sessions/meetings)
Week 7
Develop your own application
- Prepare technical documentation and final parts (online sessions/meetings)
Week 8
Hands on in-person session
- Final presentations and review of developed Additive Manufacturing business cases