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Press Release16 February 2026Siemens AGMunich
HD Hyundai selects Siemens Xcelerator for integrated digital shipbuilding platform
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.
“The
selection of Siemens Xcelerator represents an important milestone in advancing
HD KSOE’s digital shipbuilding strategy,” said Taejin Lee, Executive Vice
President and Head of Digital Innovation Office at HD Hyundai. “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.”
“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,” said Tony Hemmelgarn, president and CEO, Siemens Digital
Industries Software. “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.”
Based on the
Siemens Xcelerator open digital business platform, HD Hyundai’s “Integrated
Platform for Ship Design-Production Consistency” project will deliver a
consistent digital thread of key data from design through production. Design
and production will be connected in real time through a unified data backbone,
significantly reducing inefficiencies and errors caused by data discontinuities
between processes.
Within this
unified digital environment, standardized data flows and system
interoperability will connect key domains including computer-aided design
(CAD), product lifecycle management (PLM), digital manufacturing, automation
and simulation, enabling major shipyard activities such as planning,
construction, expansion and modification to be reviewed in a virtual
environment prior to on-site implementation.
HD Hyundai
also plans to expand the application of model-based engineering practices and
improve collaboration efficiency across organizations and functional teams. In
particular, block assembly, welding information, piping, and electrical data
will be managed in an integrated 3D model, improving design accuracy,
optimizing production planning, and standardizing shop-floor operations.
The scope of
the integrated digital platform is expected to extend across a range of vessel
types, including commercial vessels and specialized ships. Key areas of
application include structured management of equipment and component data,
digital model-based performance analysis, lifecycle-oriented maintenance
engineering and technical support frameworks for overseas shipbuilding
projects.
Additionally,
HD Hyundai is working on building photorealistic digital representations of
ships and shipyard sites within the Industrial Metaverse. This involves the use
of AI trained in a virtual learning environment with synthetic and industrial
data. The result is the interactive visualization and physics-based modeling of
complex production environments, all powered by Siemens’ digital twin
technology.
The two
companies will take a phased implementation approach expected to begin in 2026,
with application to operational vessels targeted from 2028.
For this press release
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