Marine engineering software

As the marine industry faces increasing pressure to adhere to sustainability legislation regulations and meet customer performance requirements, marine engineering software empowers shipbuilders to develop new ships that meet innovation targets in a timely, efficient and cost-effective manner. To succeed, companies need to integrate engineering domains, methods and tools effectively. The comprehensive digital twin, with simulation and testing at its core, is pivotal to transforming marine performance engineering to rapidly develop, optimize and introduce new concepts to market.

To be compliant and to meet the International Maritime Organization's (IMO) strategy to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, the industry will be focusing on multiple performance indicators that pose new design and engineering challenges.

With simulation, naval architects and marine engineers can create a digital twin to virtually represent the ship, predict performance and investigate the impact of changes early in the design cycle in real-world operation conditions. This virtual approach improves the effectiveness of the search for the best energy-efficiency solutions and speeds up the design and retrofit process. Once the ship is in operation, the digital twin also benefits from the data feedback thread, such as from sea trials and mission profiles.

Classification societies are early adopters of powering simulation and recognize this integrated approach to provide valuable and informed insights into powering options with different fuel combinations. Ship owners are starting to recognize the value of having in-house capabilities to analyze, understand and adjust performance at individual vessel or fleet levels by evaluating different propulsion configurations and identifying the most efficient one.

Digitalization is changing marine industry trends and competitive advantages. To stay competitive, companies use digitalization to optimize existing fleets and manage resources and energy consumption. Becoming fully digitalized also enhances team productivity and reduces overall product lifecycle costs, enabling a faster time-to-market delivery. But how?

It is essential to introduce an integrated virtual simulation toolkit to maritime engineering as it serves as a single source of truth in your digital journey, enabling the user to push the boundaries of vessel design.

A holistic digital twin can be used to support engineering efficiency when taking a conceptualization to detailed design. Digitalization can help connect the physical and virtual world, from initial to production design, maritime automation systems or engineering and consultancy services to support deployment. A multiphysics approach is key to integrating hydrodynamics, structural integrity, propulsion systems and environmental considerations.

Simcenter software, part of Siemens Xcelerator business platform of software, hardware and services, is a flexible, open and scalable suite of industry-leading engineering simulation and test solutions and associated services. Using Simcenter enables users to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to make faster decisions and have an improved user experience. It also enables the user to enhance productivity by using cross-domain workflow automation as well as process and data management. By providing detailed insights into the real-world performance of vessels, Simcenter allows engineers to increase productivity, shorten time-to-market and accelerate innovation over the entire product lifecycle.