Project

The goal of LSP Ship Factory together with Danish shipyards and companies is to automate ship production using robots and AI.

We introduce a novel cell-based concept for automated shipyard operations, in which processes are executed in a central multi-purpose/multi-robot workspace. This cell-based concept optimizes the commissioning and continued development and extension of sophisticated automation equipment “out of the box” and enables shipyards to lift their highly manual operations today to flexible, digital, and robotized operations, monitored and controlled product quality and attractive workplaces for existing staff and young professionals alike.

We utilize the unique equipment of the newly established SDU Center for Large Structure Production (LSP), while supporting the shipyards and designers in implementing relevant aspects of the overall concept in their own operations with their own staff.

LSP Ship Factory thus enables shipyards to counter the pressure of a fierce global competition and a lack of workforce with innovative and manageable technologies for robotized production operations around the lifecycle of ships.

Outcomes of our joint developments prepare and support the Danish maritime sector with tangible solutions to reactivate and reshore the necessary competencies and capacities to engage in civil and naval initiatives for building and maintaining vessels in DK.

Funded by Grand Solutions.

“Green Transitions in Port of Aalborg” is a collaboration between the Port of Aalborg and Aalborg University Business School. Both organizations share from different angles—practice and research—the interest in green transitions; that is, how business operations and strategies can be designed such that they ensure an ecologically sustainable economy. As business operations vary widely, this strategic initiative comprises three main foci, looking at business operations within the port, at how the port interacts with its external environment, and at the port as one player in the broader regional environment (i.e., Greater Aalborg), always through the lens of identifying and solving problems in relation to green transitions.

MISSION targets GHG emissions reductions in the maritime transportation chain, specifically optimizing the port call process. Within the project, integrated port call system solutions are build to increase transparency and communication about resource readiness and estimated arrival times to finally orchestrate the overall port call process. The project contains demonstration cases that will highlight the gains from the system solutions.

There are barriers to transport chains in the Öresund-Kattegat-Skagerrak area. The Value4Sea project will help remove or minimise them.

This project looks at different operational variables of a marine engine from large cargo ships, with the aim of detecting and trending damage onset on different engine sub-components. This information can be used by owners to expedite O&M interventions and maximize ship availability.

In ShipWeldFlow, we develop novel digital analysis and optimization tools to support the workflow of robotic welding in shipbuilding operations. We use Digital Twins to address the needs of two companies, Odense Maritime Technology and Inrotech, by joint development of the required digital tools to innovate the central workflow in modern steel ship production.

Industrial PhD project at Roskilde University together with with SeaLytix on the development of stowage algorithms and AI for energy efficient liner shipping.