Norway has long been a world leader in maritime technology, but the world is changing fast, and major challenges threaten this position. Rapid innovation, new opportunities, and smarter and safer systems with higher efficiencies are needed, as the MAROFF work programme asserts. This necessitates a shift from a component perspective to a functionality perspective, which requires coordinated and unified action from a wide range of research and industry partners. And it requires a new set of tools to meet the increasingly stricter regulations and technological demands.
During the last years, the maritime industry has started using co-simulation successfully to boost digital collaboration and innovation based on existing investments and knowledge. Yet, several technical challenges remain standing in our way and collaboration is inhibited by a lack of tools and methodologies for efficiently evaluating and improving the entire system, early, in the design process.
With this project, we aim to tackle these inhibitors of rapid digital innovation head on by drawing on the knowledge and the skills acquired over the past decade. We seek to develop methods and tools for performing system optimisation and stress testing with entire systems and specific operations based on co-simulations. To ensure high interactivity and value creation, several key partners from academia and the industry are committed and eager to contribute.
