Euromind (2009)

European Commission
Directorate-General for Enterprise & Industry
1. Introduction
EUROMIND, which stands for “EURopean Open Maritime INDustry”, is a project funded by the Europe INNOVA
initiative under the 6 th Framework Programme of the European Commission (www.europe-innova.org).
EUROMIND is a project dedicated to the needs of the European maritime industry. The EUROMIND initiative aims
to contribute to an innovative European Open Maritime Industry through facilitating the application of open standards
in the area of digital product data exchange to facilitate interoperability in the shipbuilding industry in
Europe.
The objective of EUROMIND is to improve European shipbuilding supply chain collaboration through interoperability
by connecting digital systems via open standards. EUROMIND intends to raise awareness in the shipbuilding
industry for the need of open reference standards to achieve interoperability.
In more detail, the focus of EUROMIND is on:
European shipbuilding & repair
• Irrespective of type of ship (yacht, naval, merchant, special)
• Target group: shipyards, subcontractors, suppliers, professional
service providers, ship owners, classification societies
and authorities
Supply chain collaboration
• The entire process of specifying, designing, selling, engineering, building, commissioning, maintaining, repairing
and dismantling of a ship, carried out by a (collaborative) team of companies
Connecting digital systems
• Limited to the aspect of digital systems (e-business), excluding project management, contract management,
knowledge management.
• Connecting refers to “information exchange” among different systems, preferably via the internet. It does not
refer to hardware connectivity.
Foreword Introduction Issues faced by the
European shipbuilding
industry
Inventory of standards
supporting interoperability
in shipbuilding
Standards related
to problem areas in
shipbuilding
Recommended
good practices for
shipbuilding
Conclusions and
recommendations
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