Showcasing maritime digital design

Belfast Maritime Consortium lead Artemis Technologies recently hosted the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, the Rt Hon Oliver Dowden CBE MP.

The Minister met Dr Iain Percy, CEO of Artemis Technologies, and the senior management team, to see the company’s digital design work. This work aims to create transformative marine technologies and a new range of zero-emission vessels.

Dowden said: “It was great to visit Artemis Technologies and see its fantastic work tackling climate change through digital innovation.”

Full motion platform simulator

During the visit, the Minister experienced the company’s full motion platform simulator, a unique digital technology which streamlines the development process and prototyping of the company’s various vessels and technologies.

Through representation of the same physical forces experienced on the water, the simulator can be used to create a digital environment which allows for the testing of new equipment, crew training, and system improvements, without the need to physically manufacture prototypes.

Percy commented: “Our mission is to support the decarbonisation of maritime through the development of new green high-speed vessels, specifically targeting the passenger ferry and workboat markets.

“We welcomed the opportunity to discuss with the minister the future of digital design within the maritime sector, and to showcase our innovative simulator, which represents a multi-million-pound digital investment over recent years by Artemis Technologies.”

Percy noted that the visit enabled Artemis “to communicate how our digital design concepts have allowed us to reap major benefits in terms of increased productivity, cost savings, product improvement, and waste reduction, demonstrating to the Minister how crucial digital innovation and use of ‘digital twins’ can further advancement of the maritime industry.”

By Rebecca Jeffrey