Seaspan Shipyards crew is joined by representatives from Gastops, BCS Automation, 3GA Marine at Seaspan’s HoloShip
Canada’s Seaspan Shipyards has awarded three contracts, totaling roughly CAD 2.6 million, to allow 4 Canadian firms to advance marine trade digitalization and additional modernize shipbuilding and fleet upkeep.
In March 2022, Seaspan launched its HoloShip platform, an immersive visualization system that permits designers, engineers, manufacturing groups, and clients to nearly expertise a completely detailed, three-dimensional, and correct digital mannequin of a vessel, utilizing an built-in 5.6-meter-wide show wall and digital actuality headsets.
The HoloShip platform and the initiatives now being introduced are a part of Seaspan Shipyards’ worth proposition commitments below Canada’s National Shipbuilding Strategy. In addition to offering funding, Seaspan will give the 4 firms — Gastops, BCS Automation, 3GA Marine and Kognitiv Spark entry to its HoloShip platform and to its many years of shipbuilding experience and use instances.
Seaspan is supporting these particular initiatives:
- BCS Automation (Ontario) is creating a cutting-edge answer that represents a ship’s management and monitoring system. This system shall be made accessible by way of a digital interface that goals to enhance vessel design and cut back the vessel’s general life cycle price. Through this venture, BCS Automation seeks to create a strong digital software and push the boundaries in predictive digital twins.
- Gastops (Ontario) is creating a digital twin answer that goals to optimize vessel upkeep and efficiency by proactively figuring out and quantifying vessel gear efficiency and upkeep points earlier than they attain a essential stage. Through this venture, Gastops seeks to develop a cutting-edge predictive upkeep answer that may be utilized to newly constructed vessels throughout each the design and operational phases and construct out their instruments and choices for marine propulsion methods. It is envisioned that this kind of providing would allow clients to save lots of money and time by leveraging progressive sensing and simulation methods to determine pervasive propulsion system points with enough discover, offering a chance to schedule restore and upkeep when vessels are in deliberate durations of docking.
- 3GA Marine (British Columbia) and Kognitiv Spark (New Brunswick) are collaborating to develop an progressive combined actuality answer with an purpose to permit onboard vessel operators to visualise and management ship methods and gear from wherever. The expertise supplies customers with real-time customizable digital info, enabling operators to entry important technical knowledge in a combined actuality setting. This answer goals to extend simplicity, security, and effectivity in working processes by enhancing the decision-making capabilities of engineers, the pace at which they’ll entry info, and the implementation of custom-made predictive upkeep routines and related software program integration instruments. The venture, says Seaspan Shipyards, “is set to revolutionize the marine industry by enhancing ships control, monitoring and maintenance bringing it closer to a future of autonomous operations.”
