In March, twenty (20) partners completed two innovation projects that aimed at qualifying additive manufacturing in Oil & Gas and Maritime industries. Managed by DNV GL and Berenschot, the JIPs laid emphasis on the development of guidelines for the qualification of parts produced by Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) and Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing (WAAM).
The projects that lasted two years allows the consortium and other AM companies to apply AM in the Oil & Gas industry following the newly established DNV-GL standard (DNVGL-ST-B203), which is open and available to the public.
Following the success of these JIPs, DNV GL launched two new JIPs to further investigate on the use of AM technologies. This time, the overall goal is to develop a Digital Warehouse program.
Twelve (12) companies have already joined the new JIPs with the goal of “delivering a guideline for the Qualification of Oil & Gas and Maritime (spare) parts produced by Laser Metal Deposition (LMD), Powder bed fusion by Electron Beam (PBF-EB), WAAM on substrate and metal Binder jetting (MBJ)”.
This second phase of JIPs already recognizes the maturity of AM technologies, and its relevance for the Oil & Gas industries, hence the need to explore how to qualify 3D printed parts for this field. Furthermore, the new collaborating companies will not dive into the unknown as they will leverage the experience and take into account the lessons learned in the first JIPs.
In this vein, “workshops have been held in May and June to identify the failure modes in all the four technologies. The Guideline will be developed to mitigate those failure modes to build trust in the process and products, when produced following the Guideline”, DNV GL announced.
The next step is to perform initial part selection and production planning activities; activities that necessarily require “core team” for each AM technology involved. It’s up to each core team to decide on a balanced portfolio of parts to print.
These activities will explore qualification via NDT (nondestructive testing) methods for AM. On the other hand, corrosion properties of materials will also be analysed and compared to materials used in conventional manufacturing processes.
AM companies that would like to be involved in this industry cooperation can email o.ponfoort@berenschot.nl or Harsharn.tathgar@dnvgl.com for further information.
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