To enable research into strengthening the nation’s maritime industrial base, the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, has installed a new industrial robotic arm in its advanced manufacturing facility. The device, a RAMLAB MaxQ robot, will be used to study, test and validate repair and manufacturing approaches, with the aim to identify how best to deploy these capabilities to small business and industry partners.
“These capabilities allow us to make repairs that are smarter, more precise and significantly faster,” said EP instructor Carly Mayhood, a maritime engineer and project manager at APL. “Through our research, we’ll continue to refine and inform the repair and manufacturing processes and reduce the Navy’s reliance on costly disassembly or replacement parts while keeping ships mission-ready with less downtime.”
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Mayhood teaches Metal Additive Manufacturing (515.655.31 and 515.655.8VL) in EP’s Materials Science and Engineering program.