WEBINAR: Enhancing Naval Materiel Support with Additive Manufacturing

IMarEST TV recording from the Naval Engineering Special Interest Group on the 5th May 2023. This webinar was presented by Dr James Huang of the Candian Department of National Defence.

This webinar provides an overview of the journey Canada’s Department of National Defence has taken to leverage Additive Manufacturing technology to enhance materiel support for the Royal Canadian Navy. The presentation  includes examples of Additive Manufacturing applications that have been pursued to improve fleet material support, and the vision for future applications in the naval environment. It also involves a discussion of ongoing efforts to integrate Additive Manufacturing technology and related certification processes into Canada’s naval materiel management policy framework.

About the Speaker

Dr James Huang completed his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at The University of British Columbia (UBC) after which he became a Research Engineer at UBC, where he studied the precipitation behaviour of aluminum alloys. After nearly a year at UBC and eight months as a Visiting Fellow at the Canadian Neutron Beam Centre, Dr Huang joined the Department of National Defence, first as a Defence Scientist at the Dockyard Laboratory in the Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

After gaining an in-depth understanding of the naval platform materials, he took a position as the Subject Matter Expert at the National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa, where he supported the RCN fleet field with exposure to a broader horizon in the naval platform material field. Most recently James was appointed as SubSection Head of DNPS 2-4 where he managed a portfolio of Naval Materials Engineering. In this role, he oversees the development of innovative technologies for the maintenance of the RCN submarine and surface fleet.

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