Fibre4Yards project: digital innovation in the European shipyards 4.0

COMPASS Ingeniería y Sistemas actively participated in the European project Fibre4Yards (2021-2023), an initiative funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 program. The objective of the aforementioned project has been to boost the digital transformation and automation of ship manufacturing processes through the use of fiber-reinforced composite (FRP) materials.

The project has developed and integrated new advanced technologies – such as additive manufacturing, UV pultrusion, automatic fiber placement and digital twins – to improve the competitiveness and sustainability of European shipyards. In this context, COMPASS has played a key role as technical lead of the project and leader of work package WP3. This work package is focused on the structural design of ships adapted to the new production processes.

COMPASS has applied our advanced CAE solutions, such as RamSeries, SeaFEM and Tdyn. These CAE solutions have allowed us to optimize the hydrodynamic and structural design of modular vessels manufactured in FRP. In addition, we have participated in the development of a digital twin, oriented towards intelligent shipyard 4.0 products, processes and services. The above-mentioned digital twin incorporated IoT sensors to monitor the manufacturing process in real time, intelligent algorithms for calculation and detection of alert scenarios in collaboration with CIMNE, TSI and Naval Group.

COMPASS’ expertise in numerical simulation and industrial digitalization has been instrumental in validating new, more efficient, flexible and sustainable design, manufacturing and certification methods. The results of the project, which include real demonstrators and technologies ready for adoption in production environments, reinforce COMPASS’ commitment to innovation applied to the naval sector.

Fibre4Yards represents a firm step towards Shipyard 4.0. We at COMPASS are proud to have actively contributed to this strategic breakthrough for the European maritime industry.