The Digitalization of Yachting
By Brandon Kertesz, Digital Business Development Manager, RINA
brandon.kertesz@rina.org
In response to the growing needs of the yacht industry, RINA has developed a series of Digital Products and Services in order to meet the market’s requirements and capabilities.
The RINA Yachting Digitalization Initiative addresses the challenges arising from the wide-ranging technological advances being made in data collection, communication, and decarbonization. Among the initiatives being undertaken is the expansion of RINA’s pioneering cloud-based yacht maintenance software, SERTICA Yacht.
Designed to improve reliability and safety, SERTICA Yacht offers a real-time system to plan and manage onboard work efficiently. SERTICA Yacht supports operators, shipyards and management companies in their efforts towards achieving sustainability, while still emphasizing the use of data to improve vessel design and operational efficiency.
RINA’s Digital Yachting Products include planned maintenance, fleet management, a digital twin, and performance monitoring capabilities tailored to the yachting sector.
Going forward, SERTICA Yacht will have the ability to interface directly with a “digital twin” of the asset, which allows for real-time, on-board and remote access to the performance information of a yacht in its different operational profiles, whether at Berth, On-Anchor or At Sea.
Owners and operators can use data collected on the performance of equipment in each operational profile to finetune operations and optimize functions, thereby improving fuel consumption and emissions, while better managing such elements as electric loads, stabilizers and air conditioning systems. For their part, Managers can make quick and easy comparisons within their fleets to identify individual areas of improvement. Meanwhile the information collected can help builders and designers to improve equipment performance on future designs.
The SERTICA Yacht Digital Twin also aids shipbuilders’ aftersales departments in their support of crews and management companies.
Real-time data allows the yard to quickly identify any problems post-delivery and direct crew to the best resolution. It can also play a key role in crew changeovers, where there are often issues of crew familiarization. SERTICA Yacht Digital Twin provides crews with access to the vessel’s visual layout, maintenance history, and tutorials for equipment operation, prior to arrival on-board.
This can significantly reduce down-time and enable crew members to quickly gain an understanding of the vessel.
RINA is upgrading other digital elements under RINA MAXIMA, its specialized digital tool suite for custom megayachts.
New Digitally Enhanced Surveys will leverage the existing data bank of equipment information to generate a complete digital equipment profile of the vessel. This can be updated and maintained throughout the life cycle of the yacht.
First, an in-depth profile is established during the vessel’s construction, which is then subsequently updated at each survey. RINA surveyors will then amend the profile accordingly as equipment is replaced during the life of the yacht.
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