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The Smart European Shipbuilding project (SEUS)

Smart European Shipbuilding project – integrated platform for a combined solution incorporating CAE, CAD, CAM, and PDM software

The Smart European Shipbuilding project (SEUS) aims to create a framework for European shipyards by developing an integrated platform for a combined solution that incorporates CAE, CAD, CAM, and PDM software and testing it at shipyards.

The new platform solution will be built with the best EU shipbuilding expertise provided by academic and industrial consortium participants. It will develop novel practices for human-centric knowledge management, data-driven AI design elements, intelligent technology, and an Industry 5.0 concept for shipbuilding.

The consortium partners represent state-of-the-art development in three main areas:

  • Computational tools development
  • Industrially applied research
  • End-users of the new technology – shipyards.

The ambition is to achieve up to a 30% reduction in the time needed for engineering and up to 20% for assembly and construction at European shipyards. The elimination of gaps in digital information flows and the optimisation of work processes present the area for time and cost optimisation, providing significant economic impacts on shipbuilding.

The identified impacts include the following:

  • Development of computational platform solution
  • Facilitation of digital transformation of shipbuilding
  • Traceability and integration of the early design impact of the design process
  • Competitive advantage for EU shipbuilders through time savings in design and production stages
  • Expansion of shipyards’ exposure to the ship life cycle: for retrofit, revitalisation, use of data from operation and maintenance, human-centric shipbuilding knowledge management, and EU workforce skills and expertise development.

Participants

Project SEUS brings together development work for computational tools, the highest research expertise from academic partners, applied to the field of shipbuilding and Industry 5.0, and future users of the platform – shipyards. This ensures that the development process has a product-service design backbone and nurtures a value co-creation process in the development of IT tools.

  • NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, NORWAY (NO)

  • CONTACT SOFTWARE (CONTACT), GERMANY (DE)

  • NHL STENDEN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES (NHL)

  • UNIVERSITY OF TURKU (UTU), FINLAND (FI)

  • CADMATIC OY (CADMATIC), FINLAND (FI)

  • ULSTEIN GROUP (ULSTEIN), NORWAY (NO)

  • SARC BV (SARC), NETHERLANDS (NL)

  • ASTILLEROS GONDAN SA (GONDAN), SPAIN (ES)

The SEUS project has received funding from the Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON) EU program under grant agreement No 101096224.

This website reflects only the author’s view and the European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains. The website http://seus-project.eu/ will be kept up to date during the entire duration of the project.