Intelligence+Empowering the Shipbuilding Industry

Shorten the development cycle and reduce comprehensive applications

Cost intelligence+empowering the shipbuilding industry

Today, on highways, intelligent cars equipped with various "black technologies" are capable of automatically changing lanes and overtaking; In the air, high flying drones can safely and accurately deliver goods to customers in a short period of time. How does a bulky and large ship transform when it encounters the wave of intelligence at sea?

In November last year, the world's first intelligent ultra large mineral sand ship, the Mingyuan, was officially delivered. This ship, designed and built by a Chinese shipbuilding company, realized people's imagination of "intelligent ships" and set a milestone in the development process of intelligent ships in China, including online sharing of ship information, providing reasonable navigation directions, intelligent monitoring of ship energy consumption, and providing maintenance and management opinions.

Shipbuilding is a typical discrete production, with a large shipyard space, long ship construction period, and relatively complex process flow. Why should we make ships smarter?

For the development of enterprises, intelligent ships will effectively enhance the competitiveness of shipping companies. Through the automation, intelligent application, and transformation of production lines, the production efficiency of corresponding processes has been increased by 40% -400%, the product construction cycle has been shortened by 15% -20%, and the enterprise's efficiency has been stably guaranteed. "Pan Zhiyuan, Secretary of the Party Committee of Dalian COSCO Shipping Kawasaki Ship Engineering Co., Ltd., introduced that currently 70% of the company's orders come from the international market, and the average ship price in the secondary market is more than 10% higher than the average level.

Intelligent ships represent a new direction for ship owners' needs, "said Wang Qi, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. In recent years, the International Maritime Organization has vigorously promoted the implementation of the" E-Navigation "strategy, and intelligent ships with comparative advantages such as safety, reliability, energy conservation, environmental protection, and economic efficiency are important trends for the future development of ships.

It is understood that China's shipbuilding efficiency is only 1/2 to 1/3 of the world's advanced level, and the gap in labor productivity is even greater. To change this situation, intelligent manufacturing is an important way. "Xin Guobin, Deputy Minister of Industry and Information Technology, proposed that developing intelligent ships and promoting the optimization and improvement of the entire value chain from design, research and development, production, management to service can effectively shorten the research and development cycle, improve shipbuilding efficiency, and reduce comprehensive application costs.

It is worth mentioning that intelligent ships are also an important component of China's intelligent shipping. Promoting the application of intelligent ship technology has become a core element in the development of intelligent shipping, "said Zhang Baochen, director of the Academic Committee of the Water Transport Science Research Institute of the Ministry of Transport. In the future, pilot projects for intelligent shipping such as intelligent ships and intelligent navigation protection will be established.

尽管智能船舶已初见成效，但不少企业反映还存在发展难题。在观念上，一些企业还在长期发展和短期效益之间徘徊不定。“当前航运市场持续不景气，很多企业认为智能化转型必将增加企业盈利压力，无法坚定智能化转型决心。”潘志远说。在技术上，还面临原有设备系统与网络信息共享之间的矛盾。

王琦认为，目前船级规范对设备定义还停留在单个独立设备系统上，需要完善和修订。

全面提升船舶工业智能化转型，下一步应该从哪些方面重点着力？

辛国斌指出，当前，共性技术、基础部件、关键技术供给不足是发展智能船舶的薄弱环节，依靠单个企业解决不了，要注意发挥行业内外力量，以重点项目为牵引进行研发和应用，补齐技术链与产业链短板。

智能化的基础是数字化、网络化，接下来要建立互联互通的网络化工业生态，注重积累数据信息资源，提升智能船舶网络和信息安全防护能力。辛国斌介绍，此外，要在标准规范引领上下功夫，积极参与相关国际标准规范制修订，研究智能船舶标准规范体系建设，建立船舶总装智能制造标准体系。

Information source: China Government website