HP has entered right into a collaboration with the United States Naval Sea Programs Command (NAVSEA) Expertise Workplace to assist the ‘revitalisation’ of the Submarine Industrial Base.
The NAVSEA Expertise Workplace will harness HP’s Steel Jet binder jetting expertise in its bid to ‘pioneer superior manufacturing options.’
Working with its binder jetting companions, HP will discover ‘new frontiers’ in steel additive manufacturing, in accordance with HP President of 3D Printing Savi Baveja. The collaboration, he says, may also enable for the usage of new supplies and designs for ship development, which ought to assist to ‘shorten manufacturing timelines from months to mere days.’
As NAVSEA Expertise Workplace commences work with HP, there’s a hope they’ll pool sources and experience to raised assist the Armed Forces in ‘shaping the way forward for defence manufacturing.’
Dr. Kevin Genson, Additive Manufacturing Engineering Supervisor on the NAVSEA Expertise Workplace, commented: “The US Naval Sea Programs Command Expertise Workplace is collaborating with binder jetting companions similar to HP to discover the viability of utilizing this novel course of to quickly manufacture high-quality steel components in assist of the revitalisation of the Submarine Industrial Base.
“HP’s Steel Jet expertise has demonstrated potential in direction of the usage of steel AM in supplies similar to stainless steels and superalloys for brand spanking new ship development in addition to fleet sustainment. Utilizing binder jetting may probably enable for important components with lead occasions of months to be fabricated and delivered in days, with materials properties that meet of exceed the legacy necessities.”
NAVSEA has been working with additive manufacturing for just a few years, deciding on SPEE3D’s chilly spray additive manufacturing expertise to develop subsafe manufacturing supplies in Might 2023, and reporting the profitable implementation of Markforged’s X7 Discipline Version 3D printer to restore components on one in every of its assault submarines two months earlier.
