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Research center of the Rolls-Royce group in Finland for the ships to remote control
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March 10, 2017
The Rolls-Royce group, in collaboration with the Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) and the Tampere University of Technology (TUT) and with the (Tekes), will install this year a research center to Turku, in Finland, dedicated specifically to the development of technologies for the realization of ships without crew. The objective is to allow the realization of ships with remote control within 2025.
"In the years to come - it has emphasized president Marine di Rolls-Royce, Mikael Mäkinen - the digitalisation it will transform the industry of the shipping and now it is right time in order to define the way in which this it will happen. In the next few years - it has added - we must invest to total level in order to develop the competences necessary and to realize a series of producing and systems available for the market and in order to benefit from that which it is a remarkable opportunity".
The Rolls-Royce group, with 70 Finnish and international companies, participates moreover in Finland to the DIMECC (Digital, Internet, Materials & Engineering Co), center for the development of the digitalisation in industrial field, that it is among other things getting ahead the program Design for Value (D4V) centralized on the introduction of technologies in order to increase the efficiency of the supply chain, between which those for the ships to remote control.
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The Rolls-Royce group, in collaboration with the Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) and the Tampere University of Technology (TUT) and with the (Tekes), will install this year a research center to Turku, in Finland, dedicated specifically to the development of technologies for the realization of ships without crew. The objective is to allow the realization of ships with remote control within 2025.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
