3D printing for the Energy sector: Roboze technology to seize the challenges and opportunities of the future
Recently, the urgency of a sustainable energy transition has placed the energy industry in front of new challenges: from increasingly stringent regulations to the pressing fluctuation of oil prices, through to the intensification of global competition.
To meet these needs, the sector is looking with increasing interest at innovative technologies and materials that are able to cope with hostile operating environments by reducing the need for maintenance and reducing the carbon footprint during their life cycle.
Roboze Metal Replacement 3D printing in the Energy sector
Roboze is one of the main innovators in the Energy sector and is at the forefront to overcome these challenges and accelerate the trend through 3D printing solutions, dedicated to just in time and on demand industrial production with non-metallic materials. The business model, Roboze Distributed Manufacturing, allows the introduction of significant economic advantages:
- Reduced lead time for production spare parts;
- Solutions to key issues related to environmental sustainability;
- Reduced transport length and time with a consequent reduction of CO2 emissions.
Lead Time reduction: what are the challenges in offshore plants?
Since offshore platforms - regardless of their type - operate in remote locations, an unexpected supply chain often leads to operational delays and management costs that are much higher than a land-based production facility.
To avoid unexpected stops, many companies are willing to embrace a very conservative inventory management logic, by producing spare parts in excess of the real estimated needs.
While this choice allows you a prompt response to unforeseen events, minimizing downtime, on the other hand involves considerable management costs (warehouse maintenance, parts production, logistics and transport) and important waste (a large number of spare parts in stock will never be used during their life, leading to obsolescence).
On Demand industrial 3D printing can provide a solution
The ability to draw from a digital warehouse and produce spare parts when and where needed with on-site industrial 3D printing solutions or with innovative services such as Roboze 3D Parts, allows you to exert greater control over the supply chain by reducing the intervention time on unforeseen events and reducing costs and risks related to the management of a warehouse based on traditional external supply.
Energy sector: why rely on Roboze?
The Roboze technological ecosystem provides 3D printing solutions for super-polymers and composite materials to manufacturers around the world.
Mechanical accuracy of 10µm, cloud compatibility and the ability to process high temperature and chemically resistant materials such as PEEK and Carbon PEEK facilitate rapid technology adoption, leading to repeatable and reliable production of finished functional parts.
The Energy sector can benefit from high performance polymers able to work in corrosive environments even when high temperatures and pressures are expected. In the Oil&Gas sector, for example, upstream, midstream and downstream applications involve parts subjected to corrosive gases such as H2S and CO2, wear and abrasion due to sand production, hydraulic fracturing or acidification. Many conventional assets will directly benefit from Roboze industrial additive manufacturing.
Roboze's global network of certified manufacturers produces parts on demand and just in time close to the point of use and optimizes the value of additive manufacturing effectively.
To find out more about these opportunities, contact us at: info@roboze.com.