Large-scale metal 3D printing bureauAML Technologies, headquartered in Tranmere, Australia, has become the first company to receive additive manufacturing facility qualification from劳埃德的登记册（LR）。
The accreditation has been granted to AML’s facility that specializes in wire-arc additive manufacturing, a process gaining particular popularity in the maritime sector.
Andy Sales, Managing Director at AML, comments:
“Third-party inspection offers an un-biased advantage to potential customers wishing to build parts using AML’s process. That’s core to our values at AML,”
“归根结底，劳埃德登记册的设施认证将有助于为客户提供对AML的OEM零件和组件类型批准和资格需求的认识和保证。”
劳埃德的登记册additive manufacturing certification framework
劳埃德的登记册started out as the Lloyd’s Register of Shipping, a classification society for maritime. Now diverse in its services, the company offers third party technical and business certification for a variety of manufacturing industries.
Most recently in additive manufacturing, Lloyd’s Register and partner organizationTWI出版金属3D打印零件的认证框架produced using powder bed fusion technologies. Incidentally, it was with respect to this framework that AML Technologies requested an assessment by Lloyd’s.
Limitless 3D printing
Wire arc additive manufacturing, or WAM as it is registered to AML, uses a robotic arm to deposit material. This means that, unlike other bed-bound AM process, the scale of WAM projects is virtually limitless.
In 2017, AML received a share of来自澳大利亚政府的851万美元to help commercialize its WAM technology. Following this, the company has since divulged plans to develop钪合金3 d打印abilities with the technology, unlocking one of the大多数追捧的原料in the industry.
Variants of the technology have been applied throughout the maritime industry to 3D print the so-calledWaampeller, and an80,000公斤起重机钩重型建筑公司Huisman。劳埃德（Lloyd）的新加坡注册全球技术中心的战略项目侯赛因·古拉希（Hussain Quraishi）解释说：“使用电线原料使公司能够生产出更大的组件尺寸，并提供更广泛的材料选择”
“加上较低的电源原料成本，尤其是海洋和海上行业的巨大潜力。”
Certified material handling, competency and process control
As part of the Lloyd’s Register qualification, AML’s WAM facility was reviewed on criteria such as material handling, personnel competence, build process control, health and safety, and control of non-conforming items. All of AML’s WAM systems were also thoroughly audited.
销售评论说：“我们与劳埃德（Lloyd）的设施资格登记册的早期参与是一个非常流畅和高效的过程，我们获得了宝贵的知识，并赞赏LR经验丰富且热情的测量师和审计师的坚实基础。我们很兴奋，并期待随着业务的增长，可以进一步与LR合作。”
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Featured image shows test WAM 3D print at AML. Photo via AML Technologies
