AM Sustainability

Engineers, designers and decision-makers who already know the basics of AM. Useful if you are assessing AM for sustainable production, optimizing a process you already run, or following sustainability trends.

• Core sustainability principles in AM, and how AM compares with conventional manufacturing
• How to calculate and analyze the carbon footprint of metal and polymer AM processes
• What life cycle assessment (LCA) tells you about long-term sustainability
• The key factors: material efficiency, energy consumption, recycling potential
• Practical strategies to reduce the environmental impact of AM

1. Sustainability for additive manufacturing. The introduction.
2. Metal AM sustainability calculation
3. Polymer AM sustainability calculation
4. AM life cycle assessment
5. AM sustainability assessment

The course points to free online calculators for metal and polymer AM sustainability, so you can try the numbers yourself.