- Start: 01/12/2020
- End: 30/11/2024
EU shipbuilding leading edge relies in the complexity, quality, customization, delivery time and lifecycle services (e.g. in situ maintenance, repair and retrofitting) of the vessels manufactured. However, in the last decade, EU small and medium-sized shipyards (SME) have experienced a competitive drawback in their market segments due to an increase of competition from other global regions that benefits from lower labour costs or higher automation degree. Moreover, SME shipyards must also overcome a major impediment related with capital investment that can overwhelm the part cost for shipbuilding. As a result, current automation solutions based on large monolithic equipment, are not still valid for increasing productivity in SME shipyards.
Therefore, shipbuilding, and especially SME shipyards, needs novel cost-effective, reconfigurable, modular and flexible worker-centric methodologies capable of improving worker’s performance and ensuring quality and precision in the execution of the labour-intensive tasks.
Mari4_YARD aims the implementation of a portfolio of worker-centric solutions, by relying on novel collaborative robotics and ubiquitous portable solutions, enabling modular, reconfigurable and usable solutions targeting the execution of labour-intensive tasks by preserving industry-specific workers’ knowledge and skills.
Moreover, replicability and early-adoption of the portfolio of technologies by other SME-shipyards is ensured through several actions on training, technology assessment, benchmarking… by establishing a pan-European network of Didactic Factories, offering general-purpose testbeds and showrooms, as well as providing upskilling and re-skilling of shipyards workforce.
AIMEN leads the initiative and will focus on the development of novel robotics technologies to be deployed in shared space with operators.
- Sectors: Construction, Shipbuilding
- Financing programme: Horizon 2020
- R&D&i: Advanced assembly and disassembly technology, Advanced robotic solutions for industrial applications, Flexible manufacturing cells, Integrated monitoring and control systems, Mass customization, Mechatronics, Robotics for logistics
- Partners: LABORATORY FOR MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS AND AUTOMATION (LMS) – UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS, INESC TEC - INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING, EWF, CTM - Center of Maritime Technologies, Netherlands Maritime Technology, TUHH Hamburgo University of Technology, GHENOVA, NODOSA, BALance Technology Consulting GmbH, Transition Technologies PSC, CANONICAL ROBOTS SL, GIZELIS ROBOTICS ANONYMI VIOMICHANIKI EMPORIKI ETAIREIA, IUVO SRL, DEEP BLUE SRL, FOUNDATION WEGEMT - A EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITIES IN MARINE TECHNOLOGY AND RELATED SCIENCES, SCUOLA SUPERIORE DI STUDI UNIVERSITARI E DI PERFEZIONAMENTO S ANNA, BRODOGRADEVNA INDUSTRIJA SPLIT
- Acronym: Mari4_YARD
- Ambit: International
- Web: https://www.mari4yard.eu/
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