hi I'm Michael Laurin I'm the CEO of Lean
Marine, and Lean Marine is a company who
has a mission to help ship operators to
save fuel
absolutely we have two main products the
first one is FuelOpt which is an
automation system for the propulsion
system on a vessel so what it basically
does it gives new tools to the captain
and the people on the bridge to operate
the vessel engine and the vessel
propeller to optimal settings and gives
you more tools to operate them to get an
even flow from the engine and lower
consumption the other product is a
product we built on top of that which is
a performance management reporting and
analysis tool that basically takes all
the data we collect to do the automation automation of the propulsion and
presents that and makes reporting
analysis tool
top three to five points I think one of
the most important points is to get to
it to start working with operations and
to measure an axiom I have is if you
can measure it you can manage it so you
need to have proper measurement data
proper data and useful data to be able
to improve your operations another key
point is educating the people in the
company if you do not have the knowledge
spread to everybody who works with the
operations you will lose out on the
tools and the processes you have so I
think those would be my two main points
for the operation automated fuel saving
basically means that we help the people
on board and the people onshore to
automate propulsion we give better tools
with automated optimization of the
propeller and engine settings so taking
away variants taking away insecurities and taking away behaviors
that might not be fuel-efficient is
basically what we find to achieve
data collection in my mind as I already
said is if you can measure it you can
manage it so you need to collect data
you need to have more data than noon
reports which was the norm for shipping
for so many years you need to have more
data you need to have Big Data to use
that buzzword but you also need to see
what you're using the data for having a
lot of data in a database does you no
good you need to be able to get simple
knowledge out of the data and get it
into useful information that gives you
decision support so you can actually
learn from it I think one of the biggest
in the long term one of the biggest
questions right now is fuel which fuel
will we use and I think we have a decade
of trial and error in front of us we
still are in the automotive industry
they're still trying to figure out which
fuel is the best right now its batteries
while ago was diesel
before that it was ethanol and it's
gonna be a long period I think until we
have the perfect fuel or the perfect
blend of fuels in that I think we'll see
a lot of wind power and other sort of
assisting powers coming in wind and
battery being an assistant to the main
power source for the vessels one thing
that is not necessarily thought of as
green shipping but that I think will
disrupt the market a bit and I've been
saying this or thinking this before but
I think we're actually coming to a
tipping point on this is the information
I think the utilization of the shipping
industry will change the power balance
in the marketplace and I think that's
going to be a fairly big disruptor going
forward for the next 10 years
events like this are extremely valuable
because this very simple way in a very
effective way of meeting both your
customers but also other suppliers that
you can cooperate with and more
importantly to learn what's happening in
the industry there's a lot of material
to read but meeting face to face always
adds an extra dimension to it
