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MARITIME SIMULATION

Transas CEOTransas CEO

Marcus Högblom, Vice President

Frank Coles of Global Sales, Passenger ves- sels and Azipod propulsion.

Holds Court in Holds Court in

VancouverVancouver

Photo: Eric Haun

ABB

In his keynote at the 2018 Transas Glob- progress, be it ship owners and operators, formance, for example, but said the “low-

Simulate First al Conference in Vancouver, B.C., Transas class or the IMO. est-cost, fragmented-purchase model is

CEO Frank Coles laid out his vision for the “Maritime operations and infrastruc- sure to result in a weak cyber structure ... maritime industry’s future – from smarter, ture thinking seems to change at a snail’s we need to build ships with integrated

While rightfully much of the greener and safer ships to a world without pace. We seem to be content to have old- systems of systems, not a mishmash of maritime simulation talk focuses freight forwarders. fashioned ships and an old-fashioned standalone IoT applications.” on training and education matters,

As has come to be expected from the business infrastructure sitting alongside Attitudes need to change, Coles

ABB’s Marcus Högblom, Vice

Transas CEO, Coles did not hesitate to of- modern logistics,” Coles said. stressed: “Until we change the attitudes fer a healthy dose of constructive criticism Coles acknowledged progress such to the business and the current maritime

President of Global Sales, Passen- – particularly in the direction of those he as the growing use of connectivity and culture, technology remains just a patch, ger vessels and Azipod propulsion, identi? es as obstructers of industry-wide monitoring of data for analytics and per- not a solution.” said that increasingly his company is working with clients to ‘build’ an electronic version of a vessel in advance, allowing a company’s personnel to give the mock ship a test run in a maritime simulator in

MARITIME ACADEMY advance of the start of construc- tion.

Speci? cally when Viking Line was considering podded propul- sion for its new ferry, ABB was able, in its own digital center, to build a digital model of the ship featuring podded propulsion, and subsequently run it in a simula- tor so that the company’s captains

Resolve Marine group’s training arm, resolve maritime could gauge fuel consumption, academy, offers intensive training courses that utilize ship handling and stability charac- teristics. state-of-the-art simulators to prepare maritime “We were able to make a virtual

Professionals for any situation.

ship and test it, which is pretty cool if you think about it,” said Högb- lom. You can do much more today with digital solutions and simula- tions, so you don’t have to build the whole ship they ? gure out what went wrong. “This is not the ‘norm’ today, but it’s where we are heading. And it’s the smart thing to do.”

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