ABS is becoming a member of Mencast Marine (MMPL), the Singapore College of Expertise and Design (SUTD), and the Nationwide Additive Manufacturing Innovation Cluster (NAMIC) on a undertaking to fabricate and sophistication a 3D-printed propeller.
The collaborative undertaking builds upon a memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed by ABS and MMPL that’s targeted on additive manufacturing (AM), also referred to as 3D printing, for vital maritime elements.
The brand new initiative has an goal to 3D-print a ship propeller utilizing Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM) methods with a aim to realize high-quality, low build-time, and support-free prints aligned with the 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 vital location of the rising regional and world inexperienced ecosystems, of which Additive Manufacturing is definite to play a task,” stated Gareth Burton, ABS Vice President of Expertise.
“Additive Manufacturing represents the daybreak of limitless potentialities within the maritime trade. It emerges because the game-changer, revolutionizing the way in which we method complicated and labor-intensive elements. 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 probably 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 trade transformation roadmap. This undertaking represents the end result of a multi-year effort using on public-private partnerships, pulling by way of promising AM analysis into expertise options that may be adopted by the trade, to help Singapore’s 2030 manufacturing imaginative and prescient and net-zero objectives,” stated Dr. Ho Chaw Sing, CEO of NAMIC.
“We’re excited to be a part of Mencast’s innovation journey in the direction of Trade 4.0 Transformation. We stay 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 spread of AM initiatives, together with a joint growth undertaking to manufacture, check and set up purposeful AM components on board an oil tanker.
