HD Hyundai Heavy Industries’ Ulsan Shipyard (Image courtesy of HD Hyundai)HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering (HD KSOE), the intermediary holding company of
HD Hyundai, has selected
Siemens as a preferred partner to establish an integrated platform to manage ‘the entire shipbuilding process as a single data flow to help ensure consistency across all its global shipyard facilities’.
The planned platform will form the core foundation of HD Hyundai’s ‘Future of Shipyard’ project, a future-oriented shipyard that it aims to complete by 2030. The project forms part of HD Hyundai’s ongoing efforts ‘to address data discontinuities that have existed across ship design and production processes and to establish a more structured, digitally enabled shipbuilding environment’. Through the integrated platform, HD Hyundai aims to strengthen collaboration between engineering and manufacturing functions and to support stable execution of increasingly complex shipbuilding projects.
Taejin Lee, executive vice president and head of ‘Digital Innovation Office’, HD Hyundai, said: “The selection of Siemens Xcelerator represents an important milestone in advancing HD KSOE’s digital shipbuilding strategy. By establishing an integrated digital platform that ensures consistency from design through production, we aim to address long-standing data discontinuity challenges and create a more structured and collaborative shipbuilding environment. This initiative will strengthen our ability to execute increasingly complex projects while enhancing efficiency, quality and competitiveness across our global shipyard operations.”
Tony Hemmelgarn, president and CEO of Siemens Digital Industries Software, concluded: “Since 2022, Siemens’ collaboration with HD Hyundai has been focused on the future of shipbuilding and the development of next-generation digital design and production platforms. Siemens Xcelerator and our comprehensive digital-twin technologies are well-positioned to support a unified digital thread across design, engineering and production. We look forward to helping HD Hyundai establish a scalable, open and future-ready manufacturing innovation platform that supports sustainable growth and operational excellence.”