Ship of the future
The ship of the future was a research program carried out in German shipbuilding from the early 1980s. The aim of the program, in which the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health also participated in addition to several large shipping companies and numerous other companies , was to improve the economy and safety of the ships, as well as their ergonomic and livable design.
details
The main points of the program, which were implemented in different ways in the shipping companies, included:
- Increasing the degree of automation of the ships;
- Greater integration of ship operations in the engine and bridge area (there as a so-called “ship control center”);
- First use of the scoop cooler on a motor ship;
- For some shipping companies the introduction of a ship operations center as a combination of a navigation bridge and engine control station;
- Ergonomic training and better design of the ship's work areas (including so-called “cockpit bridges”);
- Color-coordinated design of living and leisure areas that promotes social contacts;
- Increase in safety, in particular through the free-fall lifeboats propagated as so-called "rescue satellites" .
The first ship of the future built according to these developments was the container ship Norasia Samantha , built in 1985 at the Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft in Kiel . As early as 1986, the larger ships Norasia Princess and Norasia Pearl, designed according to the same principles, followed at HDW . By 1989, analogous to the research program, the series, also known as the HDW ship of the future , was expanded to ten units. These 187 meter long ships only had a minimum crew of 15 men.
Ten years after the completion of the project, the author Rolf Herrmann came to the conclusion that the economically advantageous parts of the ship of the future could also prevail internationally, while other points, such as the design of the living and leisure areas according to the im The knowledge gained from the program disappeared.
literature
- H. Luczak, Stress and stress studies on the ship of the future , series of research, Fb No. 463, series of publications by the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, ISBN 3883145114 .
- NN: Ship of the future. Results of the research and development project. Development of a new ship operating technology. SDZ . 1986, Hamburg; Eckardt & Messtorff ISBN 3-7702-0513-8
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ten-year balance sheet of the "Ship of the Future" (PDF file; 139 kB)