Summary: Connecting Safety, Cost and Technology

Highlights

• Remote and automated inspections are associated with financial and safety benefits, including savings in harbor costs and the potential to detect critical elements with greater certainty, which remains to be investigated.
• An interaction with hull monitoring is described, since indications of changes in stresses or accelerations identify the areas that remote or automated inspections should examine more closely.
• Digital twins are presented as closely connected to hull monitoring because, without sensors and instrumentation, no physical twin exists and no digital twin can be established.
• Hull monitoring and digital twins are both positioned to support decisions and actions, including improved use of the vessel and the tailoring of inspections and surveys.
• Financial benefits are expected in most cases when these approaches are applied smartly, together with increased safety.