The CIMAC Digitalization Strategy Group has printed a brand new Position Paper titled: On enabling the implementation of a ship-wide data ecosystem. CIMAC is a worldwide non-profit affiliation selling the event of ship propulsion, practice drive and energy era
The place paper goals to establish methods through which the potential of digitalization might be absolutely exploited for course of optimization, develops a imaginative and prescient, and supplies suggestions.
“The full technical potential of highly integrated, optimized technical solutions that support the reduction of operational costs, identification of hazards, and better transparency on environmental performance is currently not exploited. That needs to change,” says Dominik Schneiter (WinGD), Chair of the Digitalization Strategy Group.
The Position Paper displays the extraordinary discussions inside the Digitalization Strategy Group and the alignment made. It went via a suggestions course of that has taken place over the previous two years, together with peer opinions on the CIMAC Circle at SMM in Hamburg, on the panel dialogue in Busan in the course of the CIMAC Congress in 2023, and on the digitalization reception throughout London International Shipping Week. It additionally takes under consideration the EU regulation on harmonized guidelines for honest entry to and use of knowledge, often known as the Data Act, which got here into power in January 2024.
Eero Lehtovaara (ABB Marine and Ports), VP Digitalization, explains: “Integrated data ecosystems have an untapped potential to optimize the efficiency of ship operations. You can only improve what you can measure. Without data exchange, the overall system cannot be optimized. We would like to encourage the maritime industry to embrace digitalization and implement it more quickly.”
CIMAC’s Vice-President Communication Christoph Rofka (Accelleron) concludes: “We look forward to a lively dialogue with the entire industry and see the paper as the starting point for a common path.”
The CIMAC Digitalization Strategy Group consists of representatives from engine producers, element suppliers, engineering corporations, classification societies, system integration answer suppliers and universities.
