Marketing

Algorithm

Product (mathematics)

Engineering

Marine engineering

Systems engineering

Archaeology

Computer science

New product development

Manufacturing engineering

Business

Architecture

Naval architecture

Product lifecycle

Operations research

Mathematics

Geography

Geometry

Industrial organization

Shipbuilding

Engineering management

State (computer science)

at - Automatisierungstechnik

Digital Twins (DTs) play an important role in current digitalization trends across industries. As maritime markets are particularly affected by recent global tendencies such as increasing delivery costs or political pressure for decarbonization, DT solutions could provide important support for shipbuilding and shipping companies to master recent and upcoming challenges. This paper provides a brief insight into the current state of the maritime industry and shows possible use-cases for DT Ship applications throughout the entire product lifecycle. To further advance the general understanding of DTs and their implementation, the concept of a Maritime Digital Twin Architecture (MDTA) is proposed to structure practical DT features.

Maritime Digital Twin architecture