Supporting digital transformation towards more efficient industries

SMART

Like all sectors, the maritime economy is increasingly relying on digital tools for data collection, transmission and analysis to boost its competitiveness. The Carnot MERS institute has a vast array of skills in this field, which can be mobilized throughout the value chain.

Key challenges for the maritime economy in the SMART theme:

• Exploiting massive ocean-related data
• Digitizing the design, manufacture and construction of ships and infrastructures
• Anticipating the behavior of systems and ecosystems through predictive simulation
• Automate and operate maritime activities more intelligently
   

A 360° axis

The players who make up the various sectors of the Blue Economy are all concerned, to varying degrees, by the integration of digital technologies into their business. In this field, the range of skills present within the MERS Carnot Institute teams is particularly extensive. At industrial level, they are mobilized within the framework of advanced design and manufacturing projects, notably involving robotics and additive manufacturing technologies.

Modeling and simulation

These skills can also meet modeling and simulation needs. The ability to develop hybrid models, combining physical approaches and artificial intelligence, for example, to simulate the behavior of structures at sea, is particularly noteworthy. Data collected, aggregated and used for monitoring purposes (on equipment, ships or infrastructures) can also be used to feed digital twin models specific to systems deployed at sea, or even developed at the level of a marine ecosystem. Other digital technologies are also used to make offshore systems more autonomous, or for optimization purposes under operating conditions (logistics chains, routing, etc.).