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Insights

Morgan Fanberg, Robert Ekse, Wade Carson,

CEO, Glosten President, Elliott Bay Design Group CEO, Vard Marine

Roundtable:

North American Naval Architects Weigh In arine News spoke to leaders at three North and evaluate concepts, and to synthesize large data sets to

American naval architecture and marine engi- provide increased options that will allow us to improve our neering ? rms about some of the latest trends products, but it can’t replace the blend of creativity and impacting their business today. Morgan Fan- competence that allow us to solve the unique problems berg, CEO, Glosten; Robert Ekse, President, that our clients face out on the water. We have already seen

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Elliott Bay Design Group; and Wade Carson, CEO, Vard the digitization of rule sets result in faster calculations, al-

Marine, weigh in on topics ranging from digitalization and lowing the engineers to focus on improved design deci- decarbonization to the naval architect talent pool. sions rather than repetitive, manual tasks.

Moving forward, we expect to see dramatic improve-

How are advances in digitalization and AI im- ments in the input data available to inform our decision pacting the naval architecture business today? making and thus the added value we are able to deliver

How will the role of digital technologies evolve to clients. Output from digital twins combined with data going forward? gathered from sensors on ships will allow better predic-

WC: Digitalization and arti? cial intelligence are fast be- tive maintenance and equipment selection, improve fuel coming useful tools that will enable us to design and build ef? ciency, increase opportunities for vessel automation and more ef? cient, safer and environmentally friendly vessels. provide deeper insight into vessel performance. As progres-

Vard Marine specializes in designing complex, tailored ves- sively more of this data becomes available, AI will allow sels that depend on the skill, innovation and experience of the data to be synthesized into useful information that will our naval architects and marine engineers. AI can supple- guide requirements de? nition and design decision. ment their capability by allowing us to more rapidly test MF: Over 15 years ago, 3D scanning was a major techno- 10 | MN August 2024