Fincantieri is one of the world’s largest shipbuilding groups and number one for diversification and innovation. It is leader in cruise ship design and construction and a reference player in all high-tech shipbuilding industry sectors, from naval to offshore vessels, from high-complexity special vessels and ferries to mega yachts, as well as in ship repairs and conversions, production of systems and mechanical and electrical component equipment, cruise ship interiors solutions, electronic systems and software, infrastructures and maritime constructions as well as after-sales services. With over 230 years of history and more than 7,000 vessels built, Fincantieri has always kept its management offices, as well as all the engineering and production skills, in Italy. With over 8,900 employees in Italy and a supplier network that employs nearly 50,000 people, Fincantieri has enhanced a fragmented production capacity over several shipyards into strength, acquiring the widest portfolio of clients and products in the cruise segment. To hold its own in relation to competition and assert itself at global level, Fincantieri has broadened its product portfolio becoming world leader in the sectors in which it operates.
The Group has today 18 shipyards in 4 continents, nearly 20,000 employees and is the leading Western shipbuilder. It has among its clients the world’s major cruise operators, the Italian and the US Navy, in addition to several foreign navies, and it is partner of some of the main European defence companies within supranational programs. Fincantieri’s business is widely diversified by end markets, geographical exposure and by client base, with revenue mainly generated from cruise ship, naval and Offshore and Specialized vessel construction. Compared with less diversified players, such diversification allows it to mitigate the effects of any fluctuations in demand on the end markets served.
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Systems and technologies for “after sale” services development
The project aims to realize enabling innovative solutions for:
constant monitoring of on board operations;
introducing high value added functionalities like predictive maintenance through the employment of data gathered from field sensors;
developing solutions and algorithms to support and, in the next future, substitute human intervention in ship operations.
The implementation of such solutions will provide the means to establish, also in the shipbuilding sector, a high-value-added service provision model in bundle with the end-product. The project also focuses on data protection and cyber-threats mitigation topics, both on board and in the realization of enabling infrastructure related to onshore services. Furthermore, in order to protect data related to on-board and onshore systems, the project will realize important and cross-cutting cybersecurity initiatives.
The project is carried out in co-operation with four companies belonging to the Fincantieri group (leader company, ISSELNORD, Seastema and CETENA) and several external partners, which contribute to prototypes realization.
Low -environmental impact technologies aimed to energy production on board of naval vessels
Reduction of environmental impact and decarbonisation are two of the most complex technological challenges that our industry faces, but they are crucial topics for future global sustainability. Fincantieri has always been focused on these topics and continues to study innovative solutions to generate and distribute energy on board of cruise vessels, ferries and mega-yachts. For this reason, several projects aim at promoting the systems’ electrification and at finding new sustainable energy vectors.
The most relevant project focusing on these topics carries out investigation and prototyping activities to target enabling technologies towards a more efficient and cleaner way to produce energy. Such technologies will be tested on an ad hoc laboratory ship of approximately 25 meters long that will be built in our Castellammare’s shipyard. The vessel will be equipped with electric propellers, powered by a Fuel Cell plant of about 120kW and a battery system able to guarantee about six hours of zero-emission navigation. Tanks with metal hydrides will be used to stock about 50kg of hydrogen. Zeus ship will be the first unity exclusively propelled by Fuel Cell. This project represents a first step towards large-scale industrial applications and futuristic on-board installations on cruise vessels.
The project is being run in co-operation between Fincantieri and Isotta Fraschini Motori, CNR, ENR, RINa, Universities of Genoa, Naples and Palermo. Moreover, partners are engaged in an active and constant dialogue with the Italian Ministry of Infrastructures and Transport to check that, during each phase of the project, the laboratory ship is compliant with minimum safety requirements for national navigation.
Innovation of productive process of Marghera shipyard and cyber protection of related industrial networks
The project aims at streamlining the productive process through the study and development of an integrated system of innovations to be deployed in particular during the first building steps of hull components.
Currently, the project is passing the assessment phase that will determine the opportunity to set up high quality prebuilt modules, having the purpose to maximise the productive efficiency. Indeed, such modules would enable to shift the effort of the processing phase from outdoor workspaces or on board the finished ship, directly to fully equipped indoor workshops.
The project focuses also on the review of procedures for the next building steps of hull composition. In particular, thanks to the introduction of new tools and equipment, procedures will be modified in order to improve not only the readiness of blocks preparation and sections, but also production efficiency and operations safety.
Marghera shipyard is the site where Fincantieri intends to extensively experiment on all processes the newest and most advanced digital technologies, which will fully leverage new IoT paradigms, properly considering cybersecurity impacts. Such innovations are supposed to have high impact on the definition of suitable solutions and on the actual process design, based on academic literature on digitalization of production processes.
