The DCNS Research teams have moved in their new facilities at Technocampus Ocean, located in Bouguenais, on the outskirts of Nantes, France.
During the inauguration of Technocampus Ocean on 15 October, DCNS launched its rupture innovations workshop. The workshop aims particularly at fostering the emergence of new and inventive ideas and boosting their development in order to rapidly take them to a level that allows their integration into its offers and programmes.
Additive manufacturing will be the first project to be carried out by this entity. The work lead by DCNS on additive manufacturing together with its partners must allow the production of complex-geometry parts using 3D printing, and for which the supply lead times must be shortened by dividing the production time and at the same time reducing risk and significantly reducing cost.
Andréas Loewenstein, Executive Vice President for Strategy, Partnerships and Innovation at DCNS , said: “This concentration of resources combined with the colocalisation of a dozen or so other industrial, academic and research actors will foster research opportunities and synergies. A major advantage for accelerating DCNS’s development on the international stage.”
Within Technocampus Ocean, DCNS will conduct collaborative studies, as well as its own studies. The DCNS said its teams will benefit from an exceptional environment and resources to focus on their core technological research themes: hydrodynamics, materials, structures, acoustic discretion, electromagnetism, algorithms.
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