The American Bureau of Transport (ABS) and Singaporean firm Mencast Marine have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on the event of additive manufacturing functions in essential elements for maritime vessels.
The partnership goals to design, manufacture, check, and qualify essential marine elements via AM, in addition to develop information analytics and synthetic intelligence within the AM course of, and validate revolutionary options for sustainability via AM. ABS will play a key position in verifying that components are designed, produced, examined, and certified based mostly on ABS necessities and worldwide requirements, in addition to facilitating the adoption of novel AM applied sciences.
In the meantime, Mencast will validate and qualify the novel AM processes and merchandise that will probably be developed, utilizing AM to design and manufacture its suite of merchandise in a extra sustainable and environment friendly method.
“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,” stated Gareth Burton, ABS Vice President of Expertise.
“Singapore is a essential location of the rising regional and world inexperienced ecosystems, of which Additive Manufacturing is definite to play a job.”
ABS has been concerned in a spread of industry-leading AM initiatives, together with a joint growth venture to manufacture, check, and set up practical AM components on board an oil tanker.
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