Ship&Offshore | Issue 07/2016
Do or die
The advance of digitalisation in shipbuilding and shipping was a central topic – if not THE central topic – during September’s SMM maritime trade fair in Hamburg, and it’s regularly the focus of maritime events and discussions elsewhere. Popularly subsumed under the term “Industry 4.0” – the fourth industrial revolution – the systems and technologies that make up digitalisation continue to be interpreted and approached in different ways on account of their complexity.