The implications of additive manufacturing (AM) span the complete product life-cycle, from concept-stage design to service part fulfillment. Recent advances, including industrially viable high-speed AM processes, improved materials, and optimization software, now enable AM to be considered hand-in-hand with conventional production technologies. In short, AM is the cornerstone of future digital production infrastructure. Moreover, the unprecedented design flexibility of AM allows us to invent products with new levels of performance, and to envision supply chains that achieve rapid, responsive production with reduced cost and risk.

In this next-level follow-up to our Crisis Management & Business Resiliency Program, we deep dive into issues you and your industry peers chose. Topics are unique to each year’s course, as selected by previous years’ attendees of the CM&BR Program. Participants will acquire knowledge and insights from leading industry topical experts as well as your course colleagues. We can also discuss your own pressing organizational, program, management and resiliency challenges privately or in class. Student Projects: Individual teams of students will select industry issues or specific problems/processes for study. These Projects require students to work together in small groups during the week and present their results to the Class at the end of the course. Following the Course, if interested, a Team’s Student Project can result in a published article and/or conference presentation.