ABS and HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (HD KSOE) signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate on digital technologies to strengthen safety and performance in shipbuilding.
The agreement establishes a framework for the organizations to collaborate on Digital Threads, secure and integrated flows of data, across the entire vessel value chain. Areas of focus will include digital engineering, autonomous vessel systems and integrated cybersecurity tools.
The two organizations will also explore the establishment of a 3D model-based approval and trusted data exchange between the shipyard and classification society.
This collaboration will further examine the integration between HD KSOE’s Software Defined Vessel architecture and ABS Wavesight, the company's digital platform for fleet performance and compliance monitoring.
On the cybersecurity front, ABS and HD KSOE will jointly develop integrated cybersecurity and data safety guidelines for autonomous vessel environments, building on and extending beyond current IACS requirements to address the evolving threat landscape facing next-generation fleets.
