GE ADDITIVE'S CONSULTING TEAM

For the ready.

GE Additive's AddWorks consists of a group of 70+ global engineers focused on design, materials, and process industrialization. AddWorks imbeds our experts with your team, learning what your products do now and what you need them to do in the future. Wherever you are on the path to full metal additive production, our team can help get you there faster. 

Collaborate alongside the global leaders in metal additive to:

  1. Accelerate innovation

    Accelerate innovation

    Identify and build strong business cases, leading to better performance and/or cost-reduction. We can help bring innovative parts to market faster when you brainstorm and problem-solve alongside our additive experts. 
  2. Reduce risk

    Reduce risk

    We can help make an additive manufacturing business case, illustrating the economic and performance benefits for your organization. We can help co-design parts/introduce disruptive design and print proof of concept prototypes and low rate production. Tap into our advanced technical capabilities to qualify your metal additive parts faster and increase your success rate with additive parts. 
  3. Lower costs

    Lower costs

    Whether you’re looking to additively manufacture parts in industries like aerospace, medical, automotive or more, GE's AddWorks team applies best practices and a proven methodology to solve your biggest technical and business challenges. Shorten your time to market and find cost savings wherever you are in the additive process with tailored solutions designed for your team. 
  4. Improve part performance and processes

    Improve part performance and processes

    Leverage our team of additive designers, engineers and material scientists to optimize your parts and processes with a systematic approach that goes beyond the part. We will help explore product solutions that aim to differentiate your parts technically and provide significant performance benefits. 
  5. Transform your business

    Transform your business

    Rewrite the rules of manufacturing, optimize your supply chain and open new market opportunities with our unparalleled expertise and proven methodology. We provide training to launch your organization's cultural transformation, develop an AM adoption roadmap, and more.

We're building a world that works. 

Every day our talented AddWorks consulting team uses its extensive AM experience to guide customers along their additive journey. From essential trainings to final part production, the AddWorks team works shoulder-to-shoulder with our customers, helping them use this transformative technology to change their businesses—and the future.

Customer outcomes, an example:

  • We helped a key customer make an informed decision to shorten or streamline their capital equipment purchase cycle down to 7 months.
  • We showed the customer how to unlock enough applications to maintain full annual capacity on two machines, on their own, in 4 months.
  • We enabled the customer with the ability to fully utilize their equipment quicker, decrease their payback period on the equipment, and increase their ROI.
  • We taught the customer how to make critical business decisions around additive independently and cost-effectively.

Collaborate with the AddWorks team at GE Additive today to find your faster path to full-scale metal additive production.

Our products

As a power user of metal additive technology, GE’s AddWorks team your trusted partner.

Workshops

Discovery Workshop
Learn how to select the right parts for AM. Create your business case by drafting a strategic roadmap that includes your project list with cost analysis, benefits, and an implementation strategy. 

Design Workshop
Learn to design, analyze, and prepare AM parts, including support structure and process modeling. Garner a new understanding of advanced AM design and how to optimize parts for the AM process. 

Industrialization Workshop 
Access tools, such as machines and facilities, to enable full production.
Create a step-by-step plan and a period to move toward production of your metal additive part.

Application Sprints

Concept Sprint 
Our Discovery Workshop combined with developing a plan for a selected application. Our team will help you develop the concept and refine your business case. Expect a final concept and roadmap for the next phase of your additive journey at the end of this sprint. 

Development Sprint
Our Design Workshop plus advanced techniques to help iterate design and methods for metal additive parts. Arrive at a final design and a roadmap for industrialization and production.

Production Sprint
The Production Sprint includes our Industrialization Workshop tailored to your specific application. This sprint also includes the development of process specifications, to help enable the production of  your application. 

Engineering services

Let our experts tackle the challenges for you. We can take your part requirements and develop the application-specific design, material, or manufacturing process to meet your needs, so you can explore additive without adding infrastructure to adopt the technology.

Consulting services

Leverage our experts to work beside your team, teaching additive skills and strategies to overcome challenges in additive design, materials, manufacturing, and overall production.

Printing services 

Printing additive parts is both an art and science. The right experience and technological equipment are necessary to print successful parts that meet product requirements. Our experienced AddWorks engineers provide guidance around the design process, then follow through to the manufacturing process. They gather feedback, adjust the design as needed, and print the part again. 

We have experience transitioning prototype parts to production in our AS9100 certified Cincinnati, Ohio facility. We’ll develop your manufacturing process to help maximize productivity and throughput. 

Printing services enables our customers to supplement their supply chain while they establish their additive part procurement strategy. GE will leverage in-network additive machines to accelerate the development and industrialization of a customer’s application.

Customer stories

AddWorks leverages GE’s extensive experience in additive to help companies introduce and advance the technology.

3D Printing Technology Helps Cincinnati Zoo’s Meerkats Mimic Wild Behaviors

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HRE Wheels

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GA-ASI completes first test flight with metal 3D-printed part

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US Air Force to 3D-print parts for fighter planes

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Manufacturing Partner Network

GE Additive’s Manufacturing Partner Network (MPN) takes an ecosystem approach to addressing several commercial challenges to ensure the additive industry reaches its next inflection point. As companies look for cost-efficient, scalable routes to volume production, limited access to equipment, funding to invest and expertise often prevent them from taking the next critical steps. Our chosen manufacturing partners are trusted service bureaus for customers who aren't ready for vertical integration but need their parts printed at scale. 

Webinar

How to uncover a successful additive application that leads to profitable growth

Listen to our webinar to hear real-life examples of additive programs that have yielded strategic outcomes such as new market development, customer growth and—most importantly—profitability. 

Webinar

Move Over Prototyping – Additive Production is Here! 5 Tips for a Successful Transition

Metal additive technology delivers great ROI in prototyping applications, but what about production partmaking? Moving from a few prototypes to full-scale production is not a straight-forward journey. Have you struggled with deciding where to start? Listen to Steve Slusher from our AddWorks team as he shares what he’s learned from helping GE and other organizations adopt additive manufacturing for full-scale production.