By Deng Linyi, CCS Science and Innovation Center
Development of ship digitalization involves various stages and aspects of the full life cycle of ship products, including design, manufacturing, testing, management and maintenance, and associates with many stakeholders, such as shipyards, ship equipment manufacturers, shipowners, ship management companies, etc. Ship rules are an important criterion for evaluating whether ship safety can meet standard in links such as ship design, manufacturing, inspection and maintenance, an important tool to ensure the safety and quality level of ships, and also an important means to build a level playing field. Following the industry’s development, China Classification Society (CCS) has established related digitalization rules system based on years of research.
I. Ship digitalization rules system
At present, digitalization of the ship industry has gained a series of progress, and it is necessary to establish a set of ship digitalization rules and indicator system for evaluating the current status of digital construction of the ship industry and guiding future digital construction.
Considering the application scenarios such as inspection, testing and verification of digital technologies in ships and offshore facilities, the digitalization rules system shall at least contain the following aspects:
1. Ship equipment and system digitalization: Propose technical requirements in multiple levels such as basic universality, spatial organization, virtual-real inter-operation and system application, for the physical entity, digital system and virtual space corresponding to ship equipment and system digitalization.
2. Testing and verification: it is to establish applicable technical requirements and rules focusing on test rules, indicators and cases of digital system.
3. Safety guarantee: it is to establish specific technical requirements in various aspects such as physical safety, functional safety, data security, information security, and network security corresponding to safety guarantee during the digitalization procedure of ships and their system.
