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The marine industry’s move toward digitalization ... big data ... the fourth industrial revolution ... call it what you will, is palpable.

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On writing this September’s editorial I have just arrived in Hamburg, Germany for my 14th SMM exhibition, and nowhere else

Michelle Howard [email protected] is it more clear that the this evolution is in full swing. When I started attending the SMM exhibition in 1992, the exhibition halls

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Elaine Maslin - Scotland were ? lled with heavy machinery – mammoth diesels engines, gearboxes, propellers and bridge systems. Today, in 2018, there is

Tom Mulligan - UK

Claudio Paschoa - Brazil a decided lack of heavy machinery, replaced with displays touting digital solutions.

Peter Pospiech - Germany

William Stoichevski - Scandinavia

As we all know, as we all have seen, digital promise comes with the potential for peril in the form of cyber breaches. This

Production month starting on page 32, Patricia Keefe reports on ports’ efforts to raise their collective cyber security game. But this is not

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Nicole Ventimiglia [email protected] just a port story, in fact far from it. In today’s 24/7/365 world of ‘always on, always connected’ logistics and support, this cyber

Corporate Staff security issue transcends country or industry.

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The ‘connected’ ship today is not simply a seamless connection between ship and shore, indeed it is much more. Today’s ship

Information Technology is simply one node in the interconnected logistics web, and a disruption in one node can quickly and seamlessly spread globally,

Vladimir Bibik quickly. The best-known incident was the “notPetya” malware outbreak in October 2017, which struck A.P. Moller-Maersk’s IT

Emin Yuce department, and through that, it’s APM terminals at ports worldwide, including at Los Angeles, Long Beach and NY/Newark.

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The shutdown there and at other ports, and the ensuing cleanup of backlog, cost Maersk around $300 million.

While the Maersk incident was arguably the most publicized, trust that there are many more daily, around the globe, that

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Lucia Annunziata [email protected] threaten to disrupt the maritime industry and the global logistics chain. The challenge today is for operators globally to learn +1 212 477 6700 ext 6220 from past mistakes, while plotting for the future.

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Looking at the traditional ‘hardware’ side of our business, I am very happy to present an article from Jeff Ding, starting on

John Cagni [email protected] 631-472-2715 +1 page 42 entitled ‘NASA Welding Technologies: Could Revolutionize Workboat Fabrication’ which discusses how solid-state

Frank Covella [email protected] welding processes being developed for NASA manufacturing programs could signi? cantly reduce workboat fabrication costs. +1 561 732 1659

The author began his career at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in June, 1986, and he brought the friction stir welding

Mitch Engel [email protected] +1 561 732 0312 (FSW) process to the NASA agency in 1995/1996 time frame when he secured a 14 ton Kearney and Trecker Horizontal boring

Mike Kozlowski [email protected] +1 561 733 2477 mill and converted it to NASA’s ? rst FSW system. He completed his ? rst FSW welds November 1996. He continued FSW

Jean Vertucci [email protected] development as well as ultrasonic stir weld (USW) and thermal stir weld (TSW) since 1996 and has authored 13 U.S. patents in +1 212 477 6700 ext 6210 solid state welding technology.

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