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IndraControl XM2201

WAAMpeller

Six European and American certi-

TECH FILES ? cation boards have approved the

IndraControl XM22 control hard- ware for use on ships and offshore

Class-Approved, 3D installations even under extreme ambient conditions. The certi? - cations include the control hard-

Printed Propeller ware, extension modules for the expansion of the communication interfaces as well as application- speci? c modules of the fast Ind-

Bosch Rexroth raControl S20 I/O portfolio. The control modules are approved for consortium of organizations – including Damen Shipyards Group, an application temperature range from -25 to +60 ° C, and the shock-

RAMLAB, Promarin, Autodesk and Bureau Veritas – are working to- resistant electromechanical system is designed to withstand vibration- ward creating the world’s ? rst class-approved 3D-printed ship’s propel- al loads of up to 5 g and impacts of up to 30 g.

Aler to develop the world’s ? rst class approved 3D printed ship’s pro- www.boschrexroth.com peller, dubbed WAAMpeller. “Three students from Delft Technical University were investigating the potential of 3D printing for us. They brought us into contact with the other members of the consortium,” said Kees Custers, Project Engineer in Damen’s e-Navigation

R&D. The propeller will be based on a Promarin design that is typically found on a

Damen Stan Tug 1606, a 1,300mm diameter propeller weighs approximately 180kg.

Once the propeller has been printed – expected in the summer of 2017 – Damen will SESAME Straits commence full-scale trials.

The SESAME Straits project (Secure, Ef? cient, and Safe maritime traf- ? c Management in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore) is a three-year joint Singapore and Norway project, funded by the Norwegian Research

Council and led by Kongsberg Norcontrol in collaboration with the Nor- wegian Coastal Administration, Navtor, University of South East Norway,

SINTEF Ocean, Kongsberg Seatex, Kongsberg Maritime and Singa- porean partners. The technology legs of the project are ship systems, shore systems and AIS (Automatic Identi? cation System) and VDES communications (VHF Data Exchange System), and the involved parties will develop and validate shared situational awareness and cooperative decision making between the bridge team and shore side operators. The project’s objective is to improve the safety of vessel traf? c and enable

RAMLAB (Rotterdam Additive Manufacturing Lab) makes “Just-in-time” arrival technology, improving the ef? ciency of existing port the vision of manufacturing certi? ed large metal parts infrastructure, and reducing the environmental footprint by making it pos- on demand through Additive Manufacturing a reality. sible to predict possible vessel traf? c hot-spots in congested waterways, as

Images: RAMLAB well as providing new strategies to avoid such congestions.

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