HANSA 09-2022

SMM DIGITAL Future

SMM DIGITAL Future Summit Connecting the Dots From ship design to ship management, and from the bridge to the engine room and the cargo hold, digitalisation has entered all aspects of ship operation. Identifying smart ways of combining digital technologies is one of the topics of this year’s Maritime Future Summit Kicking off SMM once more, at the Maritime Future Summit on 5 September 2022 experts will discuss the latest digital trends. The course has been charted: »Increased automation in shipping has the potential to enhance safety, to improve environmental performance, and to ensure more efficient and sustainable shipping,« says Kitack Lim, Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization IMO. »Intelligent vessel control, fleet and port optimisation provide immediate answers to reducing fuel consumption.« Sean Fernback, Wärtsilä Voyage And indeed, the digital toolbox is full of technologies: Weather monitoring allows crews to optimise their routes and minimise fuel consumption; digital twins provide an efficient way to detect the root causes of ship performance issues; and remote surveys enable safe inspections without having to be physically present – a great advantage especially during the Covid 19 pandemic. Finding ways to combine all these digi- © Hapag-Lloyd © Wärtsilä © DNV The keynote of this year’s Maritime Future Summit will come from Hapag-Lloyd CIO Donya- Florence Amer on »Defining Position and Course in Digital Transformation for a shipping liner company«. Amer started her professional career in 1999 at IBM, where she held various management positions. She has played leadership roles at Bosch since 2017, initially as Executive Vice President and as a member of the CIO Management Board. Since 2020, she has been the CEO of Bosch Climate Solutions, of which she was a co-founder. In November 2021 she joined Hapag-Lloyd. Smart ship operation will be the subject of a presentation by Sean Fernback, CEO of Wärtsilä Voyage. »Intelligent vessel control, fleet and port optimisation provide immediate answers to reducing fuel consumption and carbon emissions while laying the framework for a shift that’ll touch every part of maritime transport’s value chain«, he says. Fernback is the President of Wärtsilä Voyage and Executive Vice President of Wärtsilä Corporation. Prior to this, Fernback served as Chief Technology Officer at Navico and was responsible for driving the company’s digital marine agenda. Pierre C. Sames, DNV Group R&D Director, will speak on the subject of »AI and Drone-Assisted Ship Hull Survey«. How will advanced digital technologies augment and improve the inspection of ship hulls? Based on DNV research & development, Sames will share details on the involved technologies and discuss the impact on processes and people. As Group Research and Development Director at DNV, he is responsible for managing the corporate strategic research and technology development projects. He joined GL in 1995 after studying naval architecture in Hamburg. 42 HANSA – International Maritime Journal 09 | 2022

SMM DIGITAL tal tools effectively is the topic of the Maritime Future Summit. Featuring top-ranking experts, the conference will take place on 5 September, one day before the launch of the leading international maritime trade fair. »Connected Technologies On The Rise« is this year’s motto for the meeting of the international digital experts. »Forming smart alliances and developing multidisciplinary solutions is the order of the day,« says Claus Ulrich Selbach, Business Unit Director – Maritime and Technology Fairs & Exhibitions at Hamburg Messe und Congress (HMC). »At the Maritime Future Summit, the maritime industry will »Are you sure you know all essential information that you need to achieve the best performance of your fleet?« Patrick Mueller, Siemens enter the next stage of the digital transformation.« Smart hulls The shape of a ship’s hull decides about its stability, cargo capacity and fuel consumption. No wonder hull condition is a key area for monitoring technology. The French company notilo plus combines subsea robots with Artificial Intelligence (AI) to perform hull inspections. »Our autonomous underwater drone ›Seasam‹ not only allows you to inspect the hulls of boats, but it can also, thanks to artificial intelligence and image analysis tools, do predictive maintenance to prepare for © Knud E. Hansen © notilo plus © Siemens Energy With »Design Cooperation in COVID-19 Times using VR« Virtual-Reality will also be on the MFS agenda again. Kenneth Goh, who works for the Danish-based ship design firm Knud E. Hansen, in the Perth/Australia office, reports on lesson learnt and feedback from colleagues and customers. A sneak preview: »Even reluctant users are comfortable and being productive in less than half an The hour.« keynote Goh of has this been year’s respon- Maritime not Future just for Summit innovation will in come the sible ship from design Hapag-Lloyd products, CIO but Donya- alsothe processes, Florence Amer including on »Defining the role Position and Reality Course can in play Digital in Trans- multi- Virtuanationaformation design for projects. a shipping liner »From Hull to Cloud: Hull Condition Monitoring 4.0«. Solène Guéré is the Vice President of the French start-up company notilo plus which has revolutionized underwater hull condition monitoring using underwater drones and A.I. for machine vision. She received Hansa’s »Maritime Innovator Award« in 2021. Notilo plus combines underwater robotics and AI technology to create underwater inspection reports with ease, simplicity, speed, and consistency. The approach is seen by many stakeholders as a role model of future hull condition monitoring. »Are you sure that you know all essential information that you need to achieve the best performance of your fleet?« This question will be posed by Patrick Mueller, Siemens Energy Marine. »It is important to have a holistic view on all your assets, available in real time, from machinery to navigation combined with environmental conditions. The solution is an open digital ecosystem, open to gather any kind of information, onboard a vessel and onshore from different sources«, he says. His topic will be »Ultimate data transparency as the key to a brighter future«. HANSA – International Maritime Journal 09 | 2022 43