Why would ship builders and marine equipment makers want to upload digital files to the Pelagus 3D platform instead of manufacturing and selling them to vessel managers directly? “When end users submit a query for a part, there are steps to indicate the issues that the current part faces and our engineers will proceed to work closely with them to solve the issues that they face.” In other words, with data on why the part failed, the new part can be made better not just reproduced.
“Our Pelagus 3D engineers work together with both end users and OEMs to ensure that the digital files are redesigned to ensure that the spare part performs better or the spare part is printed in another material that helps prevent corrosion (for example),” says Kenlip Ong, CEO of Pelagus 3D. Vessel owners can also upload digital part files to be manufactured, but since most end users don’t have digital files, Pelagus 3D can help with 3D scanning and redesigning the required parts, especially for obsolete components. OEMs, such as Kongsberg Maritime, which makes propulsion systems for cruise ships, ferries, and navies, can upload the digital files of their parts to the platform so that manufacturing partners around the world (or the one closest to the point of need) can 3D print them on demand. The new venture opens up this spare part service to more end-users (vessel managers) and vessel part makers (OEMs) with a network of about 60 additive manufacturing service providers onto one digital platform.īy digitizing and decentralizing part production, Pelagus 3D aims to disrupt the entire ecosystems of the maritime and offshore supply chain.īut it’s far more than an online spare part catalog.
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