Widening the Adoption of AM in Advanced Manufacturing
The 12th annual Additive Manufacturing for Aerospace, Defence & Space will return to Bristol, in 2025. Join us to gain world-class expertise from leaders within the West of England's aerospace, advanced engineering and digital manufacturing hub, such as Airbus, Boeing, GKN Aerospace, and Babcock.
As the UK's largest aerospace cluster, with more AM users from the defence and space community, Bristol is once again the optimal location to bring all the stakeholders from the Advanced Manufacturing and 3D Printing ecosystem together to address the current challenges.
This year's theme is implementing advanced manufacturing technologies to help continually optimise products and processes. Within this, the event will look at ways to improve production processes to increase efficiency and reduce risk. With the global aerospace and defence additive manufacturing market predicted to grow to USD 13.01 billion in 2028, and increasing demand for lightweight parts and components, the need for novel AM techniques is at an all-time high.
New for 2025
Updates on AM efforts in space
Case studies from defence on the AM process for combat
Generate ideas, solve problems and explore opportunities in our highly interactive workshops run by leading AM providers
Key Themes Include:
Promotion of sustainability in additive manufacturing processes
Leveraging emerging AM technologies in process monitoring to maximise quality.
Post-production quality assurance ensuring that materials are checked in a way that is cost-effective
Procurement issues in deploying additive manufacturing solutions
The testing and qualification of structures built with additively-designed materials
Very valuable. We acquired a state-of-the-art understanding, not only of technologies but also of the data and documentation complexities and eco-system of the AM community
Excellent. Well balanced to reflect the wide spectre of AM applicability. For a starting company in this field this event has been valuable in particular with its applicability to automotive and power generating industries
Good cross-section of speakers, interesting inclusion of Space/satellite industry
It was a very valuable event, I will be attending any future events
2024 Speakers Included
Dr Mohsen Seifi, Vice President, Global Advanced Manufacturing Programs, ASTM INTERNATIONAL
Alexander Champion, Project Manager, Additive Manufacturing, DE&S - UK MoD
John Sneden, Propulsion Director, US Air Force Life Cycle Management Centre
Beth Dittmer, Propulsion Integration Division Chief, US Air Force Life Cycle Management Centre
Steven Barnes, AM Process & Capability Lead, BAE Systems
