INNOVATION

CHART YOUR PATH TO AUTOMATION

It’s important to stay competitive in today’s digital era. Today, Navis is leading the automation charge to help you improve operational safety, increase productivity and get ahead of the market. From semi-automated to fully-automated, from process automation to equipment automation, Navis will support you in setting your own path to automation.

NAVIS LABS

Navis Labs is an applied research and innovation laboratory based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Navis Labs focuses on automation and digitization technologies that are transforming the container shipping industry.

Navis Labs leverages a customer-centric research and development approach to accelerate innovation and industry transformation. Discovery and prototyping are critical in our projects and we are closely engaged with our customers to validate our learnings to ensure valuable product development.

Projects are driven in collaboration with Navis, XVELA and Kalmar to empower synergistic roadmaps and to enable integrated and holistic offerings to our customers.

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CONTROL ROOM USER EXPERIENCE

Navis is working with customers and partners to prototype a new TOS user experience (UX) with a compelling user interface (UI) for terminal planning and operational control.

Navis is investigating a new UX/UI to make data more readily accessible and visible between software user interfaces, leveraging a graphical framework using live data to inform and test Navis’ software interface designs.

PIT STOP PORT OPERATIONS

The ATOM Labs team collaborated with the Port of Algeciras and port stakeholders to create a port call optimization solution that will continue to be developed as an XVELA integration.

The project includes standardization of the port call optimization events data model, cross-connectivity between supporting system applications and visibility across the vessel port rotation by leveraging vessel position and tracking data.

The solution aims to make the right information - including ancillary services like piloting and mooring - available to port authorities, carriers and container terminals to enable collaborative decision-making between parties that are normally isolated.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & MACHINE LEARNING

By adapting artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies to container terminal operations, we can create intelligent software that learns from past container moves in order to improve operations. The ATOM team focuses on identifying data requirements to Navis software products and use cases where these technologies can be applied for meaningful results.

With AI and ML in place, humans can continue the creative, experience-based and perception-driven decision making, leaving the predictable and repeatable tasks to robots.

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THE PORT OF THE FUTURE

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Digital Container Shipping: The Path Toward Intelligent Supply Chains

Transport and logistics are no longer merely a service contract in which the customer is a passive actor with no decisions to make; today the customer’s end-to-end experience, engagement and satisfaction are the real differentiation between providers. Within logistical models such as the ones executed by Amazon or Alibaba, their differentiation is enabled by supply chains that are on-demand driven.

THE NAVIS HACKATHON

Navis regularly hosts employee hackathons to boost innovation, collaboration and productivity and uncover breakthrough ideas in order to transform the future of product development.

The most recent hackathon, Navis Hack, was held across Oakland, Austin and Chennai, inspiring more than 150 Navis and XVELA engineers to team up and propose over 70 innovative ideas. Overall themes for the submissions focused on tackling challenges within the ocean shipping industry, improving existing Navis/XVELA products or proposing new ideas to push the company to the next level in product development.

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