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TECH TALK

Rolls-Royce,

Google Cloud Ink

Landmark Deal

Rolls-Royce

The maritime industry’s exhaustive push toward auton- more ef? cient,” said Karno Tenovuo, Rolls-Royce, SVP Ship the model can recognize and the more accurate the pre- omy just received a boost in the form of a deal signed be- Intelligence. “ By working with Google Cloud we can make dictions. Today, well trained machine learning models can tween Rolls-Royce and Google to develop further its intel- these systems better faster, saving lives.” perform predictive analytics faster and better than a hu- ligent awareness systems. Google Cloud Machine Learning Engine uses the same man.

The agreement was signed at the Google Cloud Sum- neural net-based machine intelligence software which Rolls-Royce will use Google Cloud’s software to create mit in Sweden, and it allows Rolls-Royce to use Google’s powers many of Google’s products including image and bespoke machine learning models which can interpret

Cloud Machine Learning Engine to further train the com- voice search. Machine Learning is a set of algorithms, tools large and diverse marine data sets created by Rolls-Royce. pany’s arti? cial intelligence (AI) based object classi? ca- and techniques that mimic human learning to solve spe- Rolls-Royce’s expertise in the maritime sector will be tion system for detecting, identifying and tracking the ci? c problems. Machine learning methods analyse existing used to prepare the data to train models, ensuring that objects a vessel can encounter at sea. data sets with the objective of learning to recognise pat- it is relevant and in suf? cient quantity to create statistical “While intelligent awareness systems will help to facili- terns in training data, making predictions from previously signi? cance. As part of the machine learning process, the tate an autonomous future, they can bene? t maritime busi- unseen data. models’ predictions are evaluated in practical marine ap- nesses right now making vessels and their crews safer and The bigger the data set the more complex the patterns plications, allowing the models to be further re? ned.

Cloud Fleet Manager Software

H H H H Hunter Marine Chooses s s s

M M MarineCFO Solutions

OSM Maritime Group will introduce Cloud

Fleet Manager (CFM) from Hamburg-based software provider Hanseaticsoft as part of its business digitization strategy. Using

Hanseaticsoft’s Cloud Fleet Manager the company intends to improve and acceler- ate its internal business processes and increase the quality and availability of its data for employees and customers. It also

Hunter Marine wants to increase connectivity for staff and

H H Hunter Marine’s Operations Division n n improve its customer communications. h h has selected MarineCFO’s Vessel 365 5 5

OSM Maritime will use the CFM portal as ?????eet optimization technology, alongg g g a central data and information platform - w w w w with Endurance Personnel for manag g- - the system will replace other technology in ing time cards, scheduling and person- - including its existing decentralized data n n nel reporting functions, and Endurance e e storage system. With more than 11,000

M M Maintenance, a complete maintenance e e

OSM Maritime Group employees distributed globally, it was par- s s s s solution from scheduling, outside ser r- - ticularly important for the company to al- v v v v vices and capacity planning to quality y y y low them to connect them with each other c c c control. Darrick Lee, Hunter Marine Pur r- - easily to further strengthen their collabora- c c c chasing Manager said the company wil ll l tive relationships. Since the CFM is cloud- u u use MarineCFO’s suite of products to o o based, a single database can be used and a a a a achieve Subchapter M compliance and d d accessed independently of location and to t t to help streamline existing business s s stuck in the past due to their adherence used in order to no longer rely on pen, pa- time. This approach brings additional value, p p processes. According to MarineCFO, its s s to antiquated processes and software per and camera. With this, it is possible not only because the employees are able to

V V V V Vessel 365 product exceeds SubChap p- - solutions,” said Bjoern Sprotte, Managing to perform the entire process completely interact in an intelligent way, but also there te t t ter M recordkeeping requirements as a a a

Director of the Technical Management & digitally, simply and quickly on a smart- is no further need to manually request and

T T T T Towing Vessel Record and as an alter r- -

Services division. “With increasing digita- phone or tablet. The company was par- forward information. The company wants to n n native TSMS recordkeeping solution. .

further optimize its processes and create lization it is important to adapt to chang- ticularly impressed by the ability to create

V V V V Vessel 365 stores Subchapter M man- - ing events and market requirements and questionnaires directly on a smartphone, interactive, virtual teams that meet the re- d d d dated “objective evidence,” helping to o o not only to react but also to develop inno- to ? ll them out and then synchronise the quirements of the maritime industry.

m m minimize operators’ exposure to Jones s s vations together with partners.” results with the of? ce. A subset of all 500

With the introduction of Cloud Fleet Man-

A A A A Act litigation.

Additionally, the ? eld of inspections is vessels managed by the company that is ager, the company has deliberately chosen undergoing further modernization. In the supervised by the technical management, a new generation of ? eet management. “Many shipping companies have been future, the Inspection Report App will be is initially equipped with the software.

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