OSM MARITIME GROUP
158 a way to give people the right information so that they can make decisions based on what ’ s happening at that particular time , operationally and financially ”. New initiatives that OSM is aggressively testing or already using include machine learning and AI , edge computing , augmented reality , drones and blockchain .
“ Imagine you are managing a ship and one part of the engine breaks ,” says Abi-Saab . “ Well , we in OSM do the best possible job we can to hire the best possible people to manage our ships . But the reality is that you cannot have experts for everything on every ship .” This is where one of OSM ’ s latest pieces of technology comes into play : augmented reality goggles . Allowing on-ship staff to display in real time the repair process enables OSM to “ take advantage of the 11,000 people in the company for expertise that can walk our engineers through the solution , because we can see what they see and we can send diagrams that they
FEBRUARY 2019