Digitalization in the maritime industry

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Act smart in all aspects of shipping

DNV is setting the agenda on smart shipping discussions. We have become the industry’s trusted advisor and partner for associated digital transformation strategies, smart vessels, cyber security, data-smart ship management, and smarter operations.

DNV’s Smart Shipping services provide a life-cycle support within all four major steps illustrated below so customers can benefit from enhanced safety, efficiency, and sustainability through digitalization. Our extensive knowledge and expertise are made available through our portfolio of services, advanced tools, and best practices.

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1. Smart strategy

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1.1 Define strategic goals

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Our experts support you with:
  • Understanding the regulatory, commercial, and technology landscape to enable sustainable target setting and assessment of future business risks
  • Establishing an overview of the current fleet performance status
  • Developing company-specific requirements and targets

1.2 Identify digital technologies and solutions that will drive target realization

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Our services cover:
  • Creating an overview of relevant digital technologies and solutions that will drive target realization
  • Techno-economical risk assessments for new and emerging technologies
  • Developing robust strategies for setting targets by means of digitalization – e.g., smart vessels, connectivity, and data-driven ship management and smart operations

1.3 Create transformation roadmap for selected digitalization initiatives

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We have the tools and experience at hand to:
  • Develop customized digital transformation roadmaps for individual vessels, fleets, and ship management, showing how the strategic targets can be met

2. Smart fleet transformation

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2.1 Identify technical vessel solutions according to digital transformation roadmap

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Our service portfolio covers:
  • Screening, modelling, and selecting the most relevant technologies and digital solutions
  • Developing company-specific smart vessel specifications
  • Techno-economic feasibility studies for new and emerging technologies

2.2 Specify required data, data-collection infrastructure, and cyber security level

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We ensure data quality and security by:
  • Data quality and maturity assessment according to the ISO 19848 Operational Vessel Data (OVD) standards and DNVGL-RP-0497 Data quality assessment framework
  • Specifications of data collection infrastructure to facilitate safe and reliable vessel-to-shore data-exchange according to DNV class notation D-INF
  • Cyber security risk assessments and recommendations according to DNV class notation Cyber Secure

2.3 Perform GAP analysis and develop smart fleet transformation plan

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Contact us when you need support with:
  • Performing GAP analysis of vessels and fleets towards company-specific smart vessel specification including required data, collection infrastructure, and cyber security level.
  • Developing a customized smart fleet transformation plan to ensure vessel data is fit for smart ship management

3. Smart Ship Management Implementation

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3.1 Create future vision and digital transformation road-map

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Our experts:
  • Establish the situation ‘as-is’ and perform GAP analysis
  • Identify digital transformation opportunities, and create a customized digital transformation roadmap
  • Conduct techno-economic feasibility studies for new and emerging technologies

3.2 Design use cases and design strong digital platform

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We help you to:
  • Managing and coordinating solution development processes
  • Creating project teams with strong user and IT competence.
  • Developing use cases in accordance with roadmap
  • Designing digital platform

3.3 Build, pilot and implement use cases in the ship management organization

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We help you to:
  • Build proposed solutions through entrepreneurial management.
  • Pilot solutions
  • Implement solutions
  • Adjust business processes and organization when required
  • Introduce management-of-change process

4. Smart operations

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4.1 Monitor, visualize and report performance indicators @ Veracity Insight by DNV

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Our slolutions cover:
  • Self-service analytics
  • Asset workbench
  • Self-defined dashboards
  • Self-managed data store & sharing
  • Automatic ESG reporting

4.2 Optimize performance and manage risk

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With our long experience we support you with:
  • Energy efficiency optimization
  • Maintenance management optimization
  • Safety management optimization
  • Safety risk management
  • ESG risk management and reporting

4.3 Establish digital service providers

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Remote and data-driven support from DNV includes:
  • Remote and data-driven class support
  • Technical troubleshooting
  • Incident investigations

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