FUTURE DIGITAL TWIN
Optimising production capabilities with additive manufacturing In December 2022, the leading trade body for the UK’s offshore energy industry, Offshore Energies UK (OEUK) published a report highlighting an industrywide skills shortage. Component production is one area where a lack of skills could hold back the UK’s transition to cleaner energy. However, additive manufacturing (AM) can help firms overcome this skills shortage by reducing the need for manual labour and largely automating design and production.
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