Industry leadering companies are using metal Additive Manufacturing in industrial service settings, leveraging the design enhancement capabilities, cycle time reduction, faster cooling cycles and improved product quality of their gas turbine platforms. Recently, successful tests of gas turbine blades with geometry-specific intricate cooling channels which travel at a rate of over 1,600 km/h in an environment of 1,250 °C have been conducted.

Younger players are using metal 3D printing in oil and gas industry by deploying large-scale IN 718 downhole tools for wellbore cleanouts. Even simple parts such as filters are being completely reimagined with superior functional performance as the objective. Thanks to Additive Design parameters based of fluid flow, turbulence and pressure drop, all critical factors in the oil & gas industry, notably enhanced parts are being deployed, making the case for AM all the more stronger. Wipro 3D also plays a notable role in 3D printing in oil and gas industry.

Wipro 3D offer Additive Design & Realization services for reimagining Oil & Gas components and MRO services enabled by AM. Wipro 3D has monolithised a gas compression part reducing 29 parts into 1 superior part resulting in unprecedented performance improvements and reduction in potential failure points. Wipro 3D has additively manufactured a gas turbine nozzle tip in Hastelloy X by unifying a pair of flow parts into a monolith; and have developed an IN718 valve stem for the purpose of testing a new valve design to enhance flow control. Wipro 3D has wide ranging capabilities to offer solutions for a range of MRO applications for Oil & Gas industry with our extensive AM knowledge base and new material adoption capability.