Completed Projects (FY 2017)

List of projects completed by MTI in FY 2017

Ship Innovation

Grasping performance of filters and establishing the preventive maintenance technology by utilizing the monitoring device of fuel-oil filters

Research on monitoring moisture in lubricating oil of diesel engines

Development of predictive detection system (simplified version) of low-water condition of boilers (Phase 2)

Development of a method for improving safety and economy by preventing accidents of ship engine plants utilizing big data (Second year)

R&D on hull-structure-health-monitoring for large containerships (Second year)

Research on measurement of propeller-operation conditions (Phase 2)

R&D on condition monitoring and maintenance system for marine pumps (Phase 2)

Research regarding the establishment of the NYK Group’s environmental target (Phase 1)

Solutions

Improvement of manual-data-acquiring platform utilizing tablets

Introducing the logic for preventing significant accidents of engines to operating ships (Phase 1)

Research on ship-allocation strategy of pure car carriers utilizing simulation (Phase 3)

Development of Live for Shipmanager (Phase 4)

Building a trial environment for ocean-going ships of a new function of the SIMS unit (Phase 1)

Support for utilizing SIMS data for works of operators (Phase 4)

Development of LiVE for Operator (Phase 4)

Development of a dashboard for monitoring the condition inside the diesel engine combustion chamber for realizing condition-based maintenance

Research on data utilization by taking advantage of NK Ship Data Center (Phase 2)

Development of an operation system utilizing the auto performance analysis logic (Phase 5)

Development of predictive diagnosis technology for the LNG LiVE for Shipmanager (Phase 1)

Research on condition monitoring technology for boiler water of steam turbine plant on LNG carriers (Phase 1)

Development of programs for image processing (net drawing of cylinders) programs for Kirari NINJA

Establishing a method of estimating shaft horsepower and confirming data accuracy utilizing SIMS data (Phase 2)

Improving a platform for acquiring manual data utilizing tablets (Phase 2)

Research on improvement of accuracy of main-engine-condition monitoring utilizing LO/FO/SDA (Phase 1)

Development of LiVE for Shipmanager (Phase 5)

Project for utilizing in-cylinder pressure data of main engines

R&D Driving

Research on system identification of hull maneuvering model utilizing per-second data of SIMS

R&D on deploying gas-composition-measuring devices

Research on construction of a basic model of the LNG process simulator

R&D on technology for supporting safe transportation of LNG (Second year)

Research on utilization of hydrogen and its transportation

Research on construction of a basic model of LNG process simulator (Second year)

Research on system identification of hull maneuvering model utilizing per-second data of SIMS (Phase 2)

Marine IT

Functional enhancement of infrastructure for SIMS data utilization

Research on ship collision risk judgement and autonomous navigation (Second year)

Study on actual-ship trial items of the new SIMS unit function (Phase 2)

Cooperation of the new Smart Ship Application Platform and NK Ship Data Center (Phase 2)

Development of a safe evaluation system for the fleet (Phase 1)

Basic study on a remote navigation system

Logistics

Prototyping and verification of the on-site improvement tool

Feasibility study on the on-site application of the high-precision positioning tool

Basic study on the high-precision positioning technology

Research on new technologies of logistics

Research on measures against scattering objects to terminals 1

Research on measures against scattering objects to terminals 2

Research on quality evaluation methods for finished vehicle transportation