1、TECHNOLOGYTRENDSTExploring the Future of Maritime Innovation TABLE OF CONTENTSEXECUTIVE SUMMARY.2INNOVATION OUTLOOK.6VISUALIZATION TECHNOLOGY .8ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE .10VIRTUAL ASSET:DIGITAL TWINS.12AUTONOMOUS FUNCTIONS:MODELING AND SIMULATION .14AUTONOMOUS FUNCTIONS .16ASSET PERFORMANCE:GENERATIV

2、E DESIGN .18MATERIALS:ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING .20GREEN ECOSYSTEM AND THE BLUE ECONOMY.22CARBON CAPTURE,UTILIZATION AND STORAGE .24ELECTRIFICATION .26ALTERNATIVE FUELS:HYDROGEN .28ALTERNATIVE ENERGY:NUCLEAR POWER.30FACING CHALLENGES TOGETHER .32THE MARITIME INDUSTRY is no stranger to innovation,but li

3、ke much else in shipping,the process is cyclical.New ideas and approaches tend to come in waves rather than in a steady stream,often driven by external forces like global conflict,transitions in energy patterns and the global sustainability movement.EXECUTIVE SUMMARYABS has earned its pedigree of de

4、veloping ground-breaking technologies that have supported the maritime industry.We have recognized for some time that the next wave of innovation is coming,and we need to be ahead of it.To that end,we have built a technology foundation to innovate in a new digital landscape across industry sectors a

5、nd processes,to equip the marine and offshore industries for important challenges as they transition into digitalized operations on a sustainable trajectory to net-zero carbon.This has involved adopting techniques from other industries like aerospace and automotive,such as product life-cycle managem

6、ent databases,natural language processing(NLP)and multi-physics modeling and simulation.Today,we are ready to leverage our recent transformations to enable the industry to adopt a new level of technology that is more familiar to Silicon Valley.Technologies like digital twins,augmented reality(AR),au