The city of Ulsan and the Ulsan Information Industry Promotion Agency held the ‘Win-Win Cooperation Type Shipbuilding & Marine Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Convergence Small and Medium-Sized Forum (Research Group) Launch Ceremony’ in the conference room of the Agency on the 18th.

Small and Medium Business Forum was launched to enhance the shared growth and competitiveness of domestic shipbuilding and offshore companies and software (SW) companies. This project is being promoted as one of the Ulsan Information Industry Promotion Agency’s ‘Shipbuilding & Offshore SW Convergence Cluster Project’.

In order to transform Ulsan's shipbuilding and offshore industry, which is dominated by simple block manufacturers, into eco-friendly and digital ones, 73 ICT convergence-related SMEs, academia, and related organizations will cooperate with each other.

Small and Medium Business Forum is △Smart Ship Global Cooperation Forum △Digital Twin-based Ship Propulsion System Demonstration Research Forum △Small and Medium Business Technology Convergence Research Group for Smart Yarding in Shipbuilding and Offshore △3D Printing Manufacturing Innovation Product Demonstration Forum △Self-Operating Ship Simulator Forum △Shipbuilding It consists of eight areas, including a plan to revitalize the marine-related SME ecosystem, a plan to become independent of the hydrogen-related materials, parts and equipment industry, and the Ulsan Convergence Contents Research Group.

In particular, domestic companies and domestic and foreign institutions and universities participated in the Smart Ship Global Cooperation Forum to achieve remote diagnosis, maintenance and repair of smart ships using artificial intelligence (AI) and big data, and realization of finding the optimal flight route. Securing technical data and data, etc.

Furthermore, we aim to study real-time data transmission and monitoring technology so that ships can be controlled on land and operation and control can be automated using the ship's data communication.

The small and medium-sized forum plans to establish a basic plan within this month to strengthen online and offline meetings between participating members at home and abroad, and to exchange opinions and conduct discussions.

At the same time, it plans to propose tasks related to the shipbuilding and offshore industry in line with the changing times, collect and analyze data in related fields through seminars and conferences, and promote the publication of reports.

A city official said, "We will do our best to support the small and medium-sized forum so that it can produce good results that strengthen Ulsan's eco-friendly and smart ship industry ecosystem.

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