Mari4_YARD – User-centric solutions for a flexible and modular manufacturing in small and medium-sized shipyards

Horizon 2020 of European Union
Duration: 01.12.2020 – 30.11.2024
Funding: 4.998.824,76 €

EU shipbuilding leading edge relies in the complexity, quality, customization, delivery time and lifecycle services (e.g. in situ maintenance, repair and retrofitting) of the vessels manufactured. However, in the last decade, EU small and medium-sized shipyards (SME) have experienced a competitive drawback in their market segments due to an increase of competition from other global regions that benefits from lower labour costs or higher automation degree. Moreover, SME shipyards must also overcome a major impediment related with capital investment that can overwhelm the part cost for shipbuilding. As a result, current automation solutions based on large monolithic equipment, are not still valid for increasing productivity in SME shipyards. Therefore, shipbuilding, and especially SME shipyards, needs novel cost-effective, reconfigurable, modular and flexible worker-centric methodologies capable of improving worker’s performance and ensuring quality and precision in the execution of the labour-intensive tasks.

Mari4_YARD aims the implementation of a portfolio of worker-centric solutions, by relying on novel collaborative robotics and ubiquitous portable solutions, enabling modular, reconfigurable and usable solutions targeting the execution of labour-intensive tasks by preserving industry-specific workers’ knowledge and skills. Moreover, replicability and early-adoption of the portfolio of technologies by other SME-shipyards is ensured through several actions on training, technology assessment, benchmarking… by establishing a pan-European network of Didactic Factories, offering general-purpose testbeds and showrooms, as well as providing upskilling and re-skilling of shipyards workforce.

In the Mari4_YARD project, the CMT will contribute its experience in the fields of production technologies, life cycle analysis and simulation. CMT will use software tools and the above-mentioned knowledge to evaluate the solutions found with regard to economic as well as ecological aspects. Furthermore, CMT will contribute to making the results accessible to the maritime community by organising information events.

Consortium

KürzelOrganisationLand
AIMENASOCIACION DE INVESTIGACION METALURGICA DEL NOROESTESpanien
TUHHTECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT HAMBURGDeutschland
CANONICALCANONICAL ROBOTS SLSpanien
GHENOVAGHENOVA INGENIERIA SLSpanien
GIZELISGIZELIS ROBOTICS ANONYMI VIOMICHANIKI EMPORIKI ETAIREIAGriechenland
IUVOIUVO SRLItalien
LMSPANEPISTIMIO PATRONGriechenland
TTPSCTRANSITION TECHNOLOGIES PSC SPOLKA Z OGRANICZONA ODPOWIEDZIALNOSCIAPolen
INESC TECINESC TEC - INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIADE SISTEMAS E COMPUTADORES, TECNOLOGIA E CIENCIAPortugal
SSSASCUOLA SUPERIORE DI STUDI UNIVERSITARI E DI PERFEZIONAMENTOS ANNAItalien
BALANCEBALANCE TECHNOLOGY CONSULTING GMBHDeutschland
CMTCENTER OF MARITIME TECHNOLOGIES GGMBHDeutschland
NMTFSTICHTING NETHERLANDS MARITIME TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATIONNiederlande
D_BLUEDEEP BLUE SRLItalien
EWFEUROPEAN FEDERATION FOR WELDING JOINING AND CUTTINGBelgien
WEGEMTFOUNDATION WEGEMT - A EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITIES IN MARINE TECHNOLOGY AND RELATED SCIENCESNiederlande
NODOSANODOSA SLSpanien
BISBRODOGRADEVNA INDUSTRIJA SPLITKroatien

This project receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.