The aim of the project is to create increased opportunities for the West Swedish engineering industry to embrace new ways of working and methods that facilitate construction after Covid-19. By making knowledge and equipment available efficiently in an open arena for innovation, the project will contribute to integrating and developing new manufacturing methods, broadening the industry’s recruitment base and thus maintaining competitiveness in the Western Swedish manufacturing industry. The project is based on developing methods, routines and working methods that increase the availability of the open arena for small and medium-sized enterprises, upgrading the arena and installing advanced manufacturing equipment for powder-based freeform-3d printing in metal, and strengthening the sustainability work within PTC regarding new working methods and manufacturing methods.