HD Hyundai is presenting a new paradigm for the future shipbuilding and marine industry through digital innovation utilizing AI technology.
First, the three shipbuilding companies of HD Hyundai (HD Hyundai Heavy Industries, HD Hyundai Samho, HD Hyundai Mipo) are promoting the Future of Shipyard (FOS) project in collaboration with Palantir, which aims to build a future advanced shipyard equipped with cutting-edge digital technologies such as data, virtual and augmented reality, automation, and artificial intelligence.
Last December, they completed the first phase called 'Visible Shipyard.' Currently, work is underway for the second phase, 'Consolidation-Prediction Optimized Shipyard.' The goal is for AI to learn from various big data to derive optimal operating conditions for process management, including personnel and equipment, by 2026.
By 2030, there are plans to establish the ultimate goal of the future advanced shipyard, the 'Intelligent Autonomous Operation Shipyard.' It is expected that productivity will improve by 30%, and the shipbuilding period will also be reduced by 30%, significantly enhancing the shipyard's construction capacity.
The digital transformation at the shipyard site is also bringing positive changes in terms of safety management. The three shipbuilding companies of HD Hyundai are utilizing digital twin technology to monitor the actual state of ships in real-time in a virtual environment, enabling the proactive detection of potential problems.
In particular, by analyzing big data, they are identifying and improving risk factors within the production process to enhance the safety of workers. The HiCams developed by HD Hyundai plays a key role in quickly and accurately detecting hazardous situations using big data to maintain the safety of ships and crew members. HiCams is a system that uses onboard CCTV to detect and analyze safety-related events in real-time with AI. HD Hyundai plans to expand the application of HiCams to factory sites where there is a risk of accidents, such as falls, to eliminate safety blind spots.
To ensure smooth communication at the shipbuilding site, they are developing and utilizing a shipbuilding industry-specific translation service AI agent. The AI agent collects 13,000 national standard shipbuilding terms and 4,200 work instruction sentences from the shipbuilding process, learning through a large language model (LLM) to provide translations in various languages.
HD Hyundai is also leading the market in optimal route provision solutions and autonomous navigation. Last January, they applied the AI-based optimal route solution OceanWise to ships of domestic shipping companies. OceanWise is a decarbonization and economically efficient navigation solution that utilizes big data and AI algorithms to suggest the optimal route from the ship's current location, minimizing fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. They plan to apply OceanWise regardless of the type or size of the vessel and introduce a subscription product.
HD Hyundai's autonomous navigation specialist company, Avikus, decided to apply the autonomous navigation solution HiNAS Control for large vessels to up to 30 ships by the end of this year. HiNAS Control is an AI-based autonomous navigation system that guides and controls the ship to navigate at optimal routes and speeds by integrating information provided by various navigational equipment and sensors.