Written by
Heather Ervin
ABS is becoming a member of Mencast Marine (MMPL), the Singapore College of Know-how and Design (SUTD), and the Nationwide Additive Manufacturing Innovation Cluster (NAMIC) on a challenge to fabricate and sophistication a 3D-printed propeller.
The collaborative challenge builds upon a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed by ABS and MMPL that’s targeted on additive manufacturing (AM), often known as 3D printing, for essential maritime parts.
The brand new initiative has an goal to 3D-print a ship propeller utilizing cutting-edge Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) methods with a objective to attain high-quality, low build-time, and support-free prints aligned with the rigorous ABS Classification requirements for propeller manufacturing.
“AM applied sciences have an enormous potential to revolutionize provide chain and upkeep procedures each in maritime and past, and ABS is dedicated to supporting these improvements with out compromising security. Singapore is a essential location of the rising regional and international inexperienced ecosystems, of which Additive Manufacturing is definite to play a task,” stated Gareth Burton, ABS vice chairman of expertise.
“Additive Manufacturing represents the daybreak of limitless prospects within the maritime {industry}. It emerges because the game-changer, revolutionizing the best way we method advanced and labor-intensive parts. At Mencast, we see it because the bridge between conventional craftsmanship and future-forward innovation,” stated Glenndle Sim, CEO of Mencast Group.
“Singapore’s first class-certified ship propeller by ABS, commissioned by Mencast, will likely be developed and manufactured with SUTD’s proprietary hybrid wire-arc additive manufacturing platform (H-WAAM). This marks a big step in the direction of supporting our native main material consultants to rework in the direction of digital and sustainable manufacturing processes as a part of Singapore Maritime’s {industry} transformation roadmap. This challenge represents the end result of a multi-year effort using on public-private partnerships, pulling via promising AM analysis into expertise options that may be adopted by the {industry}, to help Singapore’s 2030 manufacturing imaginative and prescient and net-zero targets,” stated Dr. Ho Chaw Sing, CEO of NAMIC.
“We’re excited to be a part of Mencast’s innovation journey in the direction of Business 4.0 Transformation. We sit up for working with them to translate our hybrid wire arc AM analysis into the manufacturing of Class propellers,” stated Dr. Soh Gim Music, affiliate professor and director of schooling at SUTD. ABS has been concerned in a variety of industry-leading AM initiatives, together with a joint growth challenge to manufacture, take a look at and set up purposeful AM elements on board an oil tanker.
Extra data on ABS AM companies is offered right here. Obtain a replica of the ABS Necessities for Additive Manufacturing right here.
