Factories of the Sea: Building a Digital Point of Truth for Maritime Operations

Ships operate like industrial plants — except they move. They cross geographies, time zones, and regulatory environments, making inspections difficult, site visits expensive, and documentation hard to keep consistent across teams.

In this Expert Xchange session with Sam Lee, Managing director at Ataris, we’ll explore how maritime operators are using reality capture and visual twins to establish a reliable digital point of truth — from individual vessels to entire fleets.

Grounded in real projects, real constraints, and practical operational lessons from the field.

What we’ll explore

This 30-minute conversational session will unpack:

• Factories of the sea
  Why vessels share more in common with industrial plants than traditional transportation assets

• Maritime digital adoption — what’s actually being used
  Beyond pilots and proofs of concept: what crews, operators, and auditors rely on day to day

• From scans to fleet-level insight
  How reality capture scales from individual vessels to hundreds across a fleet
  (e.g. 20 scans → hundreds of operational twins)

• Operational use cases
  Training, onboarding, inspection, and cross-team alignment — without stepping onboard
• Parallels to manufacturing and industrial operations
  What maritime can teach other asset-heavy industries (and vice versa)

We’ll also walk through real vessel datasets, including interior and exterior examples, and discuss capture methods used in active maritime environments.

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Kick off 2026 with a fast, focused conversation grounded in operational reality.

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