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In the shipbuilding industry, expansion of the manufacturing base and international competitiveness is the essential element and the current situation that the vessel owner's options and preferences are very important even though import substitution effect is larger and the strict regulations and examination due to maritime safety and the environment serve as an important element for securing market. In market size of shipbuilding industry, amounting to 55-65% of ship construction accounting for industry, IT sector equipment has the container 7-8%, Tanker 5%, LNG 10% level and due to an international movement of E-navigation, it is expected to become the next 15 percent increase, and Transport and Maritime Affairs predicts that the direct market by the introduction of E-navigation would be 30 trillion won for 10 years.
In shipbuilding and marine plant industry, the plant automation system is also referred to as process automation systems that can reduce labor costs, is available to do a 24-hour precision operation, and improve work efficiency to increase productivity. In addition, it has strength that lead time get shortend due to the shortening of the production time and by avoiding risk factors in advance it can pursue safety. In terms of the automation systems, recently vessels and marine plants has been operating in harsh environments, and therefore, the name of neural networks of marine plant has gained. In particular, due to increasing order volume of marine plant its importance has been emphasized. Due to depletion of coastal resources, marine plant suffers from the recent stagnant or declining production and as the issue of the break-even point for oil field development deep water development has been increased. Coupled to the plurality of Well Cluster, Subsea and Topside integration design capabilities are required and high-performance control and a variety of I / O are needed. In other words, if automation systems industry such as control and instrumentation, testing and monitoring are not built systematically, marine plant does not perform its roles reliably, receives interference to do an operation to cause significant damage. Therefore, in the shipbuilding / marine plant industry the sector is surely needed and can be important.  1. Domestic status of shipbuilding and marine plant equipment automation systems In terms of the market size and design status of Industrial automation systems, it could be divided into shipbuilding and offshore plant respectively depending on each works for the facilities and the importance, and the scale. First, the shipbuilding industry can be classified according to the type of target to transport, especially in dry bodies, liquid water and man related one. Within this classification automation system is divided into a monitoring and navigation automation parts where navigation automation part has a nearly regular pattern for more than a certain size regardless of the type. For monitoring parts, there are many differences depending on the type of the ship. In particular, in the case of a ship carrying liquefied gas such as LPG and LNG carriers, a larger facility monitoring and control facilities other than regular container ship or oil tanker is suited in order to secure flying. It is estimated that approximately 30 LNG carriers, about 40 of LPG line, and approximately 350 lines of other container vessels, RO-RO ship, oil tanker, Bulk are being built in Korea for a year where the market size in the field of marine monitoring is about a minimum of about 270 billion won, among those, including the field of navigation automation being about 315 billion won. In particular, in the area of the marine monitoring the domestic market directly make design and delivery for more than 85%, but the navigation field of automation is imported in Japan and abroad. Therefore about 20% except the key areas is considered to be produced domestically. On the other hand, marine plant automation systems do often refer to primarily for process control systems and safety systems. Of course, sailing related communications is included, but this may be minimal in comparison. Because they are much related to the production and many lives (the operator of about 150 to 250 people) the importance of the automation system is much bigger relative to the normal vessels. In the case of the marine plant of domestic production for an year, it increased 4-5 times against 10 years ago. Recently, the yearly average FPSO / FSO 2 ~ 4, Drill Ship 12 ~ 14 and 6-8Semi-Submersible Rig have been produced domestically. Of this automated system, the scale of the FPSO system is beyond 12 million. The market for automation system of domestic marine plant is forecast to about 170 billion won. (1) The direction of technology development Servers, desktops, laptops and mobile devices that play an important role in plant automation systems help IT Automation Framework to automate the management of the company through a centralized management console and to manage and secure each device can be managed remotely and transparently. In particular, it’s an ideal solution for companies seeking to expand business areas through the simplification of system administration and automation of IT operations, and the main advantages include web-based automation platform, secure remote system access, industry-standard technologies, distributed systems management, lightweight, secure agent architecture and automation of repetitive tasks. With the increase in recent marine plant order volume the attention of the domestic shipbuilding industry is concentrated. With the increase of utilization and economy of ocean space beyond the limits of availability on land resources and spaces, fusion research and development for advanced technology of information technology and materials technology based on shipbuilding technology is actively being deployed. Sea exploration technology for the development of maritime resources, condensing and mining systems technology, and marine environmental impact assessment and conservation techniques are being studied, and accordingly, it is promoting the development in plant automation systems industry. In addition, it is expanding on the development of not only the island structure and the seabed, and ocean space utilization, mineral exploration and mining-related equipment, but also a new family having combined features of the ships and offshore structures. Domestically, to provide a total solution such as high oil prices and the depletion of fossil fuels, CO ² reduction issues, renewable ocean energy development, including the future development of marine space, the development of multiple technologies for marine structures has been promoting. In the marine and industrial markets having been considered as the exclusive area of Hyundai Heavy Industries, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering and Samsung Heavy Industries Co., STX and Hanjin Heavy Industries are actively trying to enter into, and in Drill Ship, and SEMI Rig drilling market, Samsung Heavy Industries and Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering are showing dominant market share based on their own technology. The design and production technology for Drill Ship itself reached the stage of independence and high demand for equipment such as DP system and the marine riser system has been increasing. With the sixth generation drilling technology for offshore structures at SEMI Rig etc., is achieved to some extent, the interests on linear self-designed drilling rigs and production is growing in the development, and the cooperation between the domestic-related companies and research institutions is going on. According to accelerated expansion of the deep sea on FPS (Floating Production System), the production system installed on the land installs on the seabed and therefore, the Subsea Production System technology, the concept simplifying the size and capabilities of offshore structures has become very popular. Accordingly, in domestic shipyards, engineering to ensure subsea production systems is being developed (see Table 1). Future offshore plants market has the advantage for the domestic shipyards offshore drilling and module delivery and specifications modification in terms of energy security. The four shipyards in Korea (Hyundai Heavy Industries, Samsung Heavy Industries, Daewoo Shipbuilding, STX Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering) are concentrated in the southeastern area and with international awareness in technology and productivity, the market is expected to be beneficial to relatively entering into the field of equipment and materials sector.  2. The prospect of shipbuilding and marine plant automation systems industry Domestic shipyards occupy seven within the world's top 10, and in LNG carriers, having the 70 to 80 percent of the world market and in Drill Ship, over 60% occupancy, it has a good condition that the domestic automation system industry can expand the market in the field of shipbuilding and marine plants. Last Ship delivery increases, and this year, due to Japan's earthquake and tsunami and many different situations, shipowner who tried to have reserves or wait-poised in LNG investment went on in an aggressive posture for investment, the industry's positive impact is estimated. According to recent industry market forecasts it’s expected that a more large number of orders than the number of vessels now sailing on the sea come through 20 years, and especially the booming market for LNG carriers is estimated to be achieved. However, virtually no equipment automation systems market has not still felt. It’s because usually the order of the automation system equipment is a time to entry of the ship design, and therefore it needs about a year after ship orders. Accordingly, from the end of the year to early next year it is projected for the order of the industry equipment automation systems to be increased according to whom it may concern. In the case of marine plant industry, it expects continuing rapid growth and then showing draw-down curve within three years, but so far, mentioned earlier, focuses on marine plants, unless there is a large variation factors the current trend continued over the next five years, and the product of commercialization is expected to take place. In addition, there needs to maximize eco-friendly and efficient factor and to meet the requirements of these, with the advent of the IT (Information Technology) combining product automation systems market is expected to grow in size. On the other hand, in China, to apply eco-friendly / efficient products is there in a state of not meeting the full requirements for this position due to the technical gaps and it is considered that Korea would take the reflected interests for these. For this, the needs of purchaser considering environments become difficult from which the role and scope of the automation system increase such as the functions monitoring the operating status of equipment, as well as equipment to diagnose and to be driven in optimal conditions and the scale is expected to continue to be augmented. Shipbuilding and marine plant automation systems industry, depending on the importance and demand, can estimate the size of the market where having several risk factors it judges to have a lot of growth potential in the field of subsea that needs much capital and time investment. In addition, as it moves into the field of deep sea and the polar regions the importance is gradually emerging. Therefore, in the reason of the field of subsea requires a high technology and very high barriers to market entry, domestic companies are estimated to have more endeavor in technology development and more aggressive marketing strategy in marine plant facility automation systems. Table 2 shows Orderbook by Builder Country / Vessel Type in Korea, Japan and China, based on the Clarkson data. In addition, Figure 1 shows amount of oil and public shipbuilding marine plant that shows the trend of shipbuilding industry where marine plant listed in the major orders in 2011 is expected to be as much as 2008 levels. Depending on low and high oil prices, the amount awarded of the domestic marine plant being in proportion, from formerly processing platforms to a floating platform such as FPSO that is possible to do produce, store and offload deepwater oil and LNG, the order is being extended.  Figure 2 shows the ratio of the marine plant order volume for the domestic listed companies. Because long-term supply of petroleum resources is predicted to rely on the marine oil land, marine plant market is expected to grow with off-shore oil exploration, drilling, and production facilities directly related to oil prices. When oil prices rise, the profitability of ocean marine plant get better to increase market demand, and while becoming almost completed the land drilling, oil land in the ocean having not been developed on the other hand, it is considered that the state of long-term supply of petroleum resources are dependent on marine oil land. Fixed structures of Jackets, Gravity Platform and Jack up led the development of the current structures of less than 500m make up the saturation to some extent, the development of deep sea platform over 500m such as semi-submersible type Drilling Rig and TLP (Tension Leg Platform), and severe deep sea over 1,500 m is estimated to be authentic, suspended equation production system (FPS: Floating Production System) of a large qualified Semi-submersible, TLP, SPAR, FPSO (Floating Production Storage and Off-loading) etc. in a large proportion has led to the rise. Currently the worldwide market for floating production systems, more investment is increasing year after year, and because it’s also a very bright future prospects, positive attitude of the plant automation system vendors is required. Future shipbuilding and marine plant equipment automation systems are expected to manage the technology development to the direction of the green, yet flexible and responsive under extreme conditions. 
3. Summary
According to recent academic research institutions in China, through tracking and researching the latest technology such as networked marine industrial automation systems, marine vessel information integration technologies, marine navigation and flight automation technology, and liquid cargo vessels automation system reduce the level difference with international technology and develop the independent basis for the development, he said. On the latest technology current marine automation network is a wired network, and field bus uses network combined with Ethernet, and automation technologies of the future vessels would have to higher level of automation of the ship propulsion turbine than the wireless network, he said. In addition, marine and coastal information integrated system can be realized of marine and coastal management, data sharing and integration, and the coastal marine operations manager for sailing vessels to identify the various information immediately to facilitate ship management (monitoring, control and command, etc.) According to the development of Integrated information systems technology, the ship manager is possible for remote management, monitoring and repair. sailing technology development of ship navigation and flight automation can not only improve the safety of the ship, but also enable sailing vessel automation with the small staff and low fuel consumption and liquid cargo handling automation systems is functioning as the main device that enables integrated rear support managers, cargo ship and docks. At present, China's several technological advances are very slow and has big difference compared to global advanced technology. Therefore, experts has been pointed out in the forum that marine automation technology is already the current global maritime powers of the medium-sized industry, one of the background under the domestic industry, the latest state-of-the-art automation and advanced technology research and development of China's push for marine automation technology: ■ References . Korea Factory Automation System Research Association . Ministry of Knowledge Economy, Republic of Korea . Korea maritime university, Technology Roadmap for marine plant in 2011 . Clarkson . Daishin Securities Vessel order size and Shipbuilding Price Trends check (Dec, 2010.02) . Marine and Shipbuilding Monthly Feb, 2009/ Sep, 2009 . Marine and Shipbuilding Monthly Jul, 2010 |
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