This yr’s Asia-Pacific Financial Cooperation (APEC) was a profitable international negotiation desk for Korean shipbuilders, as firms signed a number of partnerships to advance digitalized shipbuilding practices and develop their presence in APEC economies.
HD Hyundai mentioned Sunday it has signed a strategic collaboration for U.S. shipbuilding revitalization with Siemens on the sidelines of the APEC CEO Summit, which came about from Oct. 29 to 31.
By means of the memorandum of understanding, the 2 firms purpose to reinforce the general competitiveness of the U.S. shipbuilding business by bettering design high quality, minimizing course of dangers and decreasing prices.
By combining HD Hyundai’s shipbuilding experience with Siemens’ digital twin and enterprise platform applied sciences, the partnership seeks to speed up digital transformation throughout manufacturing processes and maximize effectivity, HD Hyundai mentioned.
They’ll notice digital development in shipbuilding, enhance automation in block assembling, and optimize manufacturing, high quality and process by progressing them primarily based on a database.
HD Hyundai mentioned they may “pursue technological innovation all through the whole shipbuilding course of, step-by-step.”
The 2 corporations have additionally agreed to make the most of Siemens’ instructional amenities throughout the U.S. to coach manpower for the business. HD Hyundai will dispatch its instructors to some 30 amenities within the U.S. run by Siemens, providing technical classes.
The partnership may also play on HD Hyundai’s ongoing partnerships with the College of Michigan and the Massachusetts Institute of Know-how, collectively growing packages on engineering, digital planning and automatic process in connection to shipbuilding.
Since 2023, the 2 firms have been collectively engaged on creating new manufacturing platforms. The modern options at present beneath growth embody a unified platform to retailer a database that delineates steps from planning to manufacturing, permitting the whole course of to be simulated on-line and thus decreasing the danger of errors and producing the very best outcomes.
“To rebuild the U.S. shipbuilding business, digitization and automation to maximise manufacturing effectivity is vital,” a HD Hyundai official mentioned.
HD Hyundai beforehand signed partnerships with Huntington Ingalls Industries, the most important U.S. navy shipbuilder, and U.S. marine transportation firm Edison Chouest Offshore to develop collectively coordinated shipbuilding networks within the U.S.
In the meantime, Hanwha Ocean is making progress in increasing its market presence within the Philippines. Based on the presidential workplace of the Philippines, officers of Hanwha Ocean met President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and mentioned the corporate’s proposal to assist the Philippine navy’s submarine program.
This contains the development of a submarine base, the institution of an area upkeep, restore and overhaul heart, and the coaching of Filipino naval operators, maintainers and commanders utilizing superior simulators and methods.
Hanwha Ocean additionally knowledgeable President Marcos of their plans for the deployment of KSS-III Dosan Ahn Changho class submarines, which will probably be outfitted with trendy sonar and fight methods and lithium-ion batteries for longer underwater endurance, together with expertise switch and partnerships with native industries.
Marcos is pushing to accumulate the Philippine navy’s first submarine beneath the nation’s third-phase navy modernization plan, value 2 trillion pesos ($34 billion), which was authorized February final yr.
