Digital Innovation

The future of marine and offshore classification

The route to efficiency for the maritime industry runs through digitalization. Ship owners, yards, designers and manufacturers are looking to collaborate with partners developing the digital tools they need to achieve compliance, optimize operations, reduce costs and improve efficiency. To improve service delivery, meet client needs and advance maritime digitalization, Bureau Veritas is proactively developing innovative digital solutions.

Our digital strategy aims to enhance clients’ experience by providing services across four axes: digital efficiency, digital applications, digital classification and digitalized assets (smart shipping).
Our goal is to continuously and collaboratively develop innovative services, helping clients at all stages of their digital transformation journey.

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Digital Efficiency

Digital efficiency allows yard, designers, manufacturers and ship owners to work with classification societies using the latest digital tools. By, automating, digitizing and streamlining our classification processes, Bureau Veritas provide clients with provide faster, more efficient, higher quality services. Our experts can optimize design review and survey planning, and optimize the speed and quality of reporting. Clients can integrate our tools directly into their existing systems, saving time, securing data quality and improving collaboration with our teams.

Digital Applications

Shipyards, designers, manufactuers, owners and operators can leverage Bureau Veritas’ convenient online platforms and mobile applications to easily manage class and statutory matters. Our suite of digital applications improve our clients ability to manage compliance, improve efficiency, reduce costs and save time, from design and construction through operations and ship recycling.

Digital Classification

Digital Classification leverages the latest digital technologies to improve our operating modes. Digital Classification is covering our services from the design review to the surveys of ships in service, it is built on three pillars: 3D Classification, Remote and Augmented surveys, and Optimized and Predictive survey schemes.
We apply the latest innovations, such as 3D modelling, digital twin technology, data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and more, to classification. Digital classification offers a smarter, collaborative approach to classification for the complete asset lifecycle, allowing clients to save time, reduce costs, increase safety and optimize asset monitoring and maintenance.

Smartships

Today’s ships are giving way to automated, interconneccred, digitalized, iand ultimately automated ships of the future. For our clients, this means implementing properly and efficiently the latest smart solutions, and ensuring the application of cyber security measures. By working with Bureau Veritas, clients can approach their digital transformation pragmatically, using collaboratively developed classification notations to ensure the efficiency and compliance of their digitized processes and assets.