MacGregor hackathon - Hack the sea - created novel safety and efficiency concepts for the maritime industry
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CARGOTEC CORPORATION, PRESS RELEASE, 14 NOVEMBER 2016 AT 3 PM EET
MacGregor, part of Cargotec, organised its first hackathon "Hack the sea" on 11
- 13 November 2016 at the Interschalt Maritime Education & Training Centre, in
Schenefeld, Germany. The event brought together over 70 participants, including
33 hackers in ten teams. The hackers, with their wide experience from software,
technology, design and business development, worked intensively on given
challenges and developed concepts that will help reducing the unnecessary waste
in the maritime industry.
"The MacGregor hackathon was very successful and exceeded our expectations. The
participants had brilliant ideas already in the beginning of the event, and the
excellent quality of the outcomes surprised us. In addition to exciting
demonstrations with state-of-the-art technology, we saw many solutions that
truly address our customers' current challenges as well as their future needs.
Many concepts have high potential to become real products", says Alexander
Nürnberg, Senior Vice President, Technology and R&D at MacGregor.
MacGregor hosted altogether 10 teams in the event and provided them, together
with several event partners, with understanding of industry characteristics. The
teams worked on three challenge areas, namely safety - increasing safety on
vessels; efficiency - increasing fleet efficiency through optimised maintenance
of installed products; and environment - improving the vessel sustainability.
The participants represented companies and individuals, including start-up and
SME companies as well as universities.
The teams had access to many MacGregor data sources and Application Programming
Interfaces (APIs), and could use the offshore crane operations simulator C-How
and the vessel monitoring and reporting software Bluetracker. Various other
tools and devices were also provided by the event technology partners.
Additionally, the participants had an opportunity to experience how it feels to
operate a vessel with the bridge simulators at the Interschalt Maritime
Education and Training Centre.
"Creating new service and business concepts to meet our customers' current and
future needs is essential. In the hackathon, we experienced how these needs can
be satisfied with novel technology solutions, for example, by utilising and
analysing the data from different sources.", Michel van Roozendaal, President of
MacGregor and a member of the jury says. "It was delighting to see how many
teams chose to develop safety related concepts, aiming at improving safety
onboard the vessel as well as in the ports. There were also interesting
proposals which looked into general industry challenges, for example reducing
waiting times in ports. Other interesting concepts aimed at visualising the
vessel operations, crew locations and safe crane operating conditions."
"We were very pleased to see that all teams had customer and business value high
in their thinking. Customer and business value was one of the key criteria when
choosing the winner of our Hack the sea. The winning concept was presented by
the team Cybercom, who developed the Apps for Ships solution. Apps for Ships is
a platform for rapid application development, not just for MacGregor, but also
for MacGregor customers, to build the applications on. The proposed concept
supports MacGregor's strategic targets very well."
"This event showed that hackathons are of great value when looking for new and
radical ideas and concepts. Being open to external view in the early phase of
development brings fresh thinking to our company. The ideas presented in the
hackathon are very unique and novel, and we will move forward with selected
concepts and integrate them into our development and technology roadmaps," van
Roozendaal concludes.
For more information please contact:
Alexander Nürnberg, Senior Vice President, Technology and R&D, MacGregor
Tel +49 172 981 3287, Email: alexander.nuernberg(at)macgregor.com
or
Heli Malkavaara, Senior Communications Manager, MacGregor,
Tel. +358 20 777 4500, Email: heli.malkavaara(at)macgregor.com
Winning team
Participants: team photo
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Hacking area:
Bridge simulator
MacGregor shapes the offshore and marine industries by offering world-leading
engineering solutions and services with a strong portfolio of MacGregor,
Hatlapa, Porsgrunn, Pusnes and Triplex brands. Shipbuilders, owners and
operators are able to optimise the lifetime profitability, safety, reliability
and environmental sustainability of their operations by working in close
cooperation with MacGregor.
MacGregor solutions and services for handling marine cargoes, vessel operations,
offshore loads, crude/LNG transfer and offshore mooring are all designed to
perform with the sea. www.macgregor.com
MacGregor is part of Cargotec. Cargotec's (Nasdaq Helsinki: CGCBV) sales in
2015 totalled approximately EUR 3.7 billion and it employs over 11,000 people.
www.cargotec.com
HackingArea:
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Hackathon Group photo:
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Bridge simulator:
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Hackathon winning team_:
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