Innovation
Innovation
SEUS ambition led to the description of seven impacts, as illustration below shows. By end of 2025, the project manged to advance towards all desired impacts.
Brief description and status of the impacts
Impact 1: Computational tool platform for PLM approach in shipbuilding
A prototype solution is available within the consortium since the second half of 2023, being constantly developed. Implementation of some of the results in existing commercial tools from the partners were available from the end of 2024.
Impact 2: Facilitation of digital transformation of shipbuilding
Facilitation is sought via industrial implementations (starting from second half of 2024), as well as tests and trials with non-proprietary data made by the academic partners.
Impact 3: Increase in traceability and integration of early design impacts on the design process
Initial advancements on the improvements of the traceability desired is already observed with the existing beta version of the cloud. Current works in the early designed are expected to improve it towards the end of the project.
Impact 4: Competitive advantage for EU shipbuilders through time savings in design and production stages
An ambitious impact, which will be measured and assessed after 2025, when the implementation scheduled to start after first half of 2024 is done.
Impact 5: Expansion of shipyard's exposure life cycle: for retrofit, revitalization, use of data from operation and maintenance
We already can observe in the internal discussions that life cycle terminology and practices are enhanced with the existing prototype version of the tool.
Impact 6: Human-centric shipbuilding knowledge management
Human-centric aspects are currently being tackled by surveys, with an assessment of what are the internal and external gaps. Data from implementation intends to populate the existing framework, with a mention of the advantages towards the end of the project.
Impact 7: EU workforce skills and expertise development
Expertise and skills here are mostly connected to the benefits of digitalization in the shipbuilding industry. Diverse training materials will be developed, aiming at improvement on the skill both internally and external to the project.
SEUS Rich Picture
Main objective
Create a Smart Shipbuilding Framework, achieving considerably time saving in engineering, assembly and construction at European shipyards via efficient integration and use of the computational tools included in the framework.