SEUS Project
SEUS Project
The future of Shipbuilding
Digitalization and computational tools have great potential to generate value for improving the competitiveness of the EU shipbuilding industry. It requires a significant reshaping of existing tools and practices to be exploited successfully. The gains come in the form of increased quality and reduced time required for design, virtual prototyping, estimations of impacts for the use of greening innovative technologies, modularization, flexible data management, interoperability across proprietary tools, cyber security, efficient support for modern robotized fabrication and openness for integration with operational platforms. The future of shipbuilding lies in s marter use of computational tools.
The purpose of the SEUS Project
The main goal of the Smart European Shipbuilding project (SEUS) is to create a Smart Shipbuilding Framework for European shipyards. This is achieved by architecting and developing an integrated platform for a combined and integrated solution incorporating CAE, CAD, CAM, and PDM software and testing it at shipyards. The new platform solution will be built by the best European shipbuilding expertise provided by academic and industrial consortium participants. It intends to develop novel practices for human-centric knowledge management in shipbuilding, the use of NLP, and data-driven AI design elements in the current consensus or intelligent technologies and Industry 5.0.
Innovation in Action
The SEUS consortium’s ambition represents the potential for improvement in the current traditional shipbuilding value chain via process innovation, namely: human-centred Industry 5.0 needs; open standard and interface for shipbuilding data, AI (e.g., automated routines); integration of CAD/CAE/CAM via a PDM smart platform; 2D-3D modularization and data reuse; MRO from the downstream phases of the shipbuilding value chain included in the smart platform and closing the lifecycle loop. In the long term, our ambition is to achieve considerably time saving in engineering, assembly and construction at European shipyards. Additionally, the minimization of gaps in digital information flows and the optimization of work processes present a large area for time and cost optimization, providing significant economic impacts on shipbuilding.
This project has received funding from the Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON) EU programme under grant agreement No 101096224.
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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.
Annual Reports
SEUS Rich Picture
Publications
Contact
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Henrique Murilo Gaspar Professor
+47-70161247 henrique.gaspar@ntnu.no Department of Ocean Operations and Civil Engineering -
Magnhild Kopperstad Wolff Adviser
+47-70161560 makw@ntnu.no Department of Ocean Operations and Civil Engineering -
Gökce Yılmaz PhD Candidate
gokce.yilmaz@ntnu.no Department of Ocean Operations and Civil Engineering
SEUS Workshop in Finland - Turku May 22nd 2024
The third workshop for the SEUS (Smart European Shipbuilding) EU Project was held in Turku, Finland, during 22-23rd May 2024. The workshop was organized by the partners CADMATIC and UTU. The partners discussed the project progress, focusing on the current versino of the cloud platform, steps for the shipyards implementation from M18 and research collaboration between PhDs.
