Knust-Godwin Grows Its AM Capabilities for the Oil and Gas Industry
“This AM technology started out as a prototype technology, today it has moved into serial production.” -Michael Corliss (VP of Technology Knust-Godwin USA)
Knust-Godwin is a precision machining company located in Katy, Texas. It specializes in large, complex parts for oilfield instrumentation. Watch the case study video to find out more about Knust-Godwin expanding its Additive manufacturing (AM), or metal 3d printing capacity to handle not only research and development, but serial production as well.
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00:00:00 [Music] canuse Godwin has been in business for over 50 years we're a precision manufacturing company primarily in the oil and gas industry we have a long history of precision machined components and additive is a new tool in our toolbox that we're introducing to the oil and gas industry to improve the efficiencies and the productivity of
00:00:29 their tools our customers started using us for additive manufacturing products because we have the confidence the awareness and the resources to provide additive manufacturing to our core machine competency this am technology started out as a prototype technology and today it is actually moved into serial production today we produce AM products for the oil and gas industry
00:00:51 primarily for the down hole measurement while drilling and logging while drilling and then logging while drilling environment there is a lot of flow and traditional products that were machined the flows are not maximized or efficient so with using the a.m product the flow is much more efficient and the customers have longer tool life because of the efficiency of the flow rates so our
00:01:15 investment into the Renishaw am 500 q we saw the efficiency gains and the productivity gains that he gives us over the traditional single lasers now we have a competitive edge that can compete in the a.m market the main benefits for additive manufactured products is we have less waste we have shorter lead times and we have less operations to post machine the
00:01:40 product in our facility we've gone from products taking six to twelve different steps to only two steps to get the same process done additive manufacturing is playing a large role in our future at canoe Scott when we are expecting tremendous growth within the oil and gas industry alone we are expecting to see a 40% compounded growth year over year from subtractive
00:02:02 products to additive products in the oil and gas industry so the additive manufacturing applications that we're seeing are going and moving from taking a traditional design and moving it towards additive design where are we have customers now that had 24 months of conception to commercialization of a product that time scale has been reduced now to eight months because they are
00:02:27 taking in designing for additive and reducing their lead time and their development time for products our relationship arena Shaw has been extremely well they've been working with us on developing the machines and the technology we like the precision is that the Renishaw machine gives us that is equivalent to the precision that we receive off the subtractive machines and
00:02:49 they've been very supportive in helping us grow our additive manufacturing [Music] you