The SHIPLYS project is driven by requirements of small and medium enterprise (SME) shipyards that need to make reliable cost estimates in the limited time they have to respond to tenders for new building or retrofitting jobs. Thus, the project started with the key initial task of confirming and developing end user scenarios corresponding to early ship design stages. These are the scenarios that will inform the development of software functionality within the project in order to provide solutions to certain specific issues. These end user scenarios were developed by the active participation of the shipyards present in the consortium – FERG, VARNA and ATD. The scenario presented by FERG supports the development of SHIPLYS tools for analysing the sustainability of ship power systems. The scenario presented by VARNA informs the development of risk based ship design analytical tools and the one by ATD supports the development of retrofitting management tools.
During the first reporting period,the requirements for the development of SHIPLYS tools and the software integration functionality has been carried out by identifying knowhow from other industry sectors apart from previous or ongoing work in the shipping sector. The efficacy of approaches and tools are dependent on the type of data used. Methods for assessing the quality of data and determining critical data are being developed, and this process will continue in the second Reporting Period. Preliminary work on the design prototyping and production simulation generators has been completed.
In the second half of the project, our focus was on developing software tools - ‘SHIPLYS tools ’ - to address the issues represented by the scenarios from shipyards present in the SHIPLYS Consortium. There are three ‘SHIPLYS Scenarios’: one requiring the optimisation of hybrid propulsion system used in a short route ferry ship (Scenario 1), another requiring support during early design stages of new build ship through inputs from risk-based life cycle assessments (Scenario 2), and the third requiring support during early planning and costing of ship retrofitting accounting for life cycle costs and risk assessments. These three Scenarios were mooted by Ferguson Marine Engineering Ltd (UK), Varna Marine Engineering Ltd (Bulgaria) and Astilleros de Santander SA (Spain) respectively.
Dissemination, exploitation and software training activities have been carried out. Two major workshops were carried out - one in Varna (June 2019) and the other one in Vigo (July 2019), in addition to the one in Brussels during the midterm review meeting that included stakeholders from LINCOLN and HOLISHIP H2020 projects. During the final reporting period, further connections were made with HOLISHIP, LINCOLN and RAMSSES projects to exchange knowhow. Engagement with the SHIPLYS Stakeholders’ Advisory Committee (SAC) has been beneficial to the project. Periodic updates were provided to them and a SAC meeting was held in Varna (July 2019).
