海事和能源行业的3D打印是纳米’s 5th additive manufacturing summit later this month.
发生在新加坡，Maritime and Energy AM Summitis organized by the country’s National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Cluster (NAMIC), an organization focused on developing a collaborative and innovative ecosystem for additive manufacturing.
At the event 3D printing experts will gather to discuss operationalising AM, how 3D printing is revolutionising the energy industry, the future of advanced manufacturing and other related topics.
I caught up with two of the experts presenting work at the NAMIC AM summit to learn more.
3D printing for the maritime sector
西蒙·库克（Simon Kuik）是研发负责人Sembcorp Marine. Based in Singapore, Sembcorp Marine is aleading global marine and offshore engineering group, providing services includingship repair, shipbuilding, ship conversion, rig building and offshore engineering & construction.
Vincent Wegeneris Managing Director atRAMLAB. Readers will be familiar with RAMLAB projects including a ship propeller, aka theWAAMpeller, made using Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM). Based in荷兰鹿特丹Ramlab是一家专注于研究所加速采用添加剂制造技术。
3D打印行业：您当前如何为海洋行业使用3D打印？
Simon Kuik, Sembcorp Marine:Since 2000, Sembcorp Marine has digitised our design process by incorporating 3D-design. Besides visualisation, the data are translated for cost-effective and productive numeric-control component manufacturing, assembly and integration. We also adopted digital rapid prototyping for component design and model making. Future additive manufacturing applications will focus on locally-built metallic components and machine parts.
Sembcorp Marine还与DNV GL等行业合作伙伴合作，为3D打印过程开发快速简单的认证方法，并评估打印零件的技术可行性以进行维修和新建。我们预见到当地的海上和海洋3D打印生态系统将需要3 - 5年才能成熟。
Vincent Wegener，Ramlab：RAMLAB provides its partners easy access to an open innovation ecosystem in which the necessary resources and research on additive manufacturing are shared to the benefit of all. Close collaboration on joint projects accelerates the development and dissemination of relevant knowledge at a rate unattainable by a company operating on its own.
3D打印行业：3D打印在未来5年内可能会成为可能的海事应用？
Simon Kuik, Sembcorp Marine:Short-term applications will mainly revolve around one-off printing or printing low quantities of small and expensive machine parts that have a long lead-time and are non-load-bearing. These can be new parts, or existing ones to be repaired.
Sembcorp Marine’s immediate focus is also to develop the 3D-printing value chain and supply chain; certification by classification societies; and customer acceptance. In the long term, the cost of 3D-printing should be made affordable once the technology matures and when the supply side is well established. More parts can then be economically printed.
Vincent Wegener，Ramlab：In 2017 RAMLAB unveiled the world’s first class approved 3D printed ship’s propeller, the WAAMpeller. The ground-breaking success was the result of a close collaboration between RAMLAB, Promarin, Autodesk, Bureau Veritas and Damen Shipyards.
我们会看到更多WAAM更大的应用程序, topology optimised and have unique material properties the coming years.
3D打印行业: What are some of the challenges of using 3D printing in the Maritime sector, how do you see these being overcome?
Simon Kuik, Sembcorp Marine:Other than challenges mentioned earlier (e.g. supply chain development, high costs of 3D-printing machines and metal powders) which can be made more feasible with the maturing of the 3D-printing market, there are also IP issues to be considered when 3D-printing OEM parts. This is a more challenging issue in regard to getting acceptance from customers and users for load-bearing and critical function parts.
However, other industries that are early-adopters of 3D-printing have addressed IP issues successfully and we expect similar standards to be advised for the O&M industry. By applying 3D-printing to critical function parts, Sembcorp Marine helps add value to the 3D-printing process and creates confidence in this application.
Vincent Wegener，Ramlab：Certification is one of the most challenging parts of 3D printing in the maritime sector. With the WAAMpeller project we have shown that it is possible to certify a WAAM part if you can monitor and control the material properties at all times.
3D打印行业: How would you characterise the importance of 3D printing for Sembcorp Marine and RAMLAB?
Vincent Wegener，Ramlab：RAMLAB’s mission is to accelerate the adoption of additive manufacturing technology to realise the vision to manufacture large certified metal parts on demand. So, yes quite important.
Simon Kuik, Sembcorp Marine:3D打印对于改善Sembcorp Marine的业务很重要：生产力，定制设计的灵活性以及按需，现场制造。通过3-D打印，可以以更快的方式制造更轻，更强大，更安全的产品，同时减少领先时间和材料浪费。
Keeping abreast of up-to-date skill-sets and knowledge is required. Relevant jobs will be restructured to higher-value work such as 3D-design, 3D-printer operation and 3D-printing quality control methods.
Sembcorp Marine在开发新一代，智能和可持续的Tuas Boulevard Yard的高级和最先进的基础设施时，将投资于该技术的成功开发和测试层之后，将投资相关的3D打印设施。
新加坡是3D打印技术开发和采用的开拓者之一。Sembcorp Marine渴望通过SEMBCORP Marine-DNV GL-NAMNAM共同行业合作等计划来为当地生态系统的建设做出贡献，并加快3D打印技术开发。
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