Wire Arc Additive manufacturing (WAAM) is generating significant interest across the offshore and subsea sectors, where operators, asset owners, and supply chain teams face mounting pressure to reduce lead times, cut inventory costs, and improve parts availability in remote or logistically challenging environments. Yet despite its growing profile, a considerable gap remains between WAAM as an emerging capability and as a qualified, accepted manufacturing route for safety-critical offshore and subsea components.
The session will explore how for most stakeholders, the questions are operational: what do current standards and verification frameworks actually permit, which parts can realistically enter service, and do existing qualification pathways genuinely support deployment — or merely proof-of-concept demonstration?