During The CIMAC Circle during SMM 2024 on Thursday, September 5, was on "Is inadequate data exchange preventing efficiency gains?"
Ships have been historically designed with a strong focus on CAPEX but the introduction of measures that aim to reduce the GHG emissions from ships such as EEDI, EEXI, and CII increases the focus on delivering vessel designs with fully optimised technical solutions, i.e. designs that perform their function in the most efficient way and provide a means of collecting data to validate their efficiency levels throughout their lifetime. In this respect, digitalization provides the opportunity to generate optimized technical solutions based on highly integrated intelligent systems, here intended as systems capable of creating added value by continuously monitoring their operational status for assessing their integrity, efficiency, reliability, safety and security through advanced instrumentation and data analytics. While such solutions have been realised in several industries such as automotive and aerospace, they are implemented only slowly in the maritime industry.
Ships have been historically designed with a strong focus on CAPEX but the introduction of measures that aim to reduce the GHG emissions from ships such as EEDI, EEXI, and CII increases the focus on delivering vessel designs with fully optimised technical solutions, i.e. designs that perform their function in the most efficient way and provide a means of collecting data to validate their efficiency levels throughout their lifetime. In this respect, digitalization provides the opportunity to generate optimized technical solutions based on highly integrated intelligent systems, here intended as systems capable of creating added value by continuously monitoring their operational status for assessing their integrity, efficiency, reliability, safety and security through advanced instrumentation and data analytics. While such solutions have been realised in several industries such as automotive and aerospace, they are implemented only slowly in the maritime industry.
The adoption of a common methodology for data sharing which can be used as the foundation for building digital systems that provide business benefits, improve efficiencies and help demonstration of regulatory compliance of a highly integrated digital system such as the ship, through the implementation of a ship-wide data ecosystem were discussed in this panel.
Speakers were:
Speakers were:
- Marco Coppo, OMT, CEO
- Jean Fahmy, CSL Group, VP Digital
- Capt. Eero Lehtovaara, ABB Marine & Ports, Head of Regulatory and Public Affairs, CIMAC VP Digitalization
- Dominik Schneiter, WinGD, CEO, Chair of the CIMAC Digitalization Strategy Group
- Bjørn-Johan Vartdal, DNV, Digital Director