한화시스템(대표이사 손재일)이 국방기술진흥연구소와의 협력 끝에 함정 추진체계 상태기반진단체계(CBMS·Condition Based Maintenance System)를 순수 국내 기술로 개발하며 미래 무인함정에 필수적인 핵심 기술을 국내 최초로 확보했다.
Successful localization of the ship condition-based diagnostic system (CBMS)
Hanwha Systems (CEO Jae-il Son) has secured world-class unmanned vessel technology, creating an important opportunity for Korea to rise beyond simple corporate technology development and become a global leader in unmanned and automated technology.
Hanwha Systems announced on the 24th that it has secured the core technology essential for future unmanned ships for the first time in Korea by developing a Condition Based Maintenance System (CBMS) for a ship propulsion system using only domestic technology after a recent collaboration with the Defense Technology Advancement Research Institute.
The CBMS, which has been developed, is a system that monitors the status of various major equipment of a ship in real time and recommends maintenance when necessary. By applying advanced machine learning technology, it can perform performance evaluation, fault diagnosis, and remaining life prediction beyond simple monitoring. It is expected that this will increase the operational availability of ships, prevent unexpected failures, and greatly enhance the Navy’s operational capabilities.
With the success of this technology development, Hanwha Systems has acquired significant competitiveness in the global unmanned ship technology market. By developing the technology for the first time in Korea, which is currently only available to some advanced countries such as the US and Italy, we have been able to strengthen our export competitiveness targeting overseas markets such as Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and South America.
Hanwha Systems is donating the CBMS system and equipment it has developed to the Republic of Korea Navy Training Center to support the Navy’s ability to smoothly conduct training using this technology. Through this, we plan to enhance the Navy's rapid adaptation and technological proficiency, and further contribute to the realization of independent national defense.
The propulsion system condition-based diagnostic system (CBMS) is expected to become a key technology for realizing automation and unmanned operation of ships, as it will be able to transmit the status information of the ship to the ground in real time regardless of the presence of crew members through connection with low-orbit communication satellites (LEO) in the future.
It is also compatible with all types of ships, so it can be widely applied to various ships such as new ships and performance-improved ships, and can greatly improve the combat power of future ships.
This CBMS development is expected to be integrated with Hanwha Systems' successful Integrated Control System (ECS) in 2023, and is expected to become one of Hanwha Systems' main export items along with the ship's combat system (CMS) and Integrated Control System (ECS).
It is expected to receive great interest, especially in overseas markets such as the Philippines and other Southeast Asian regions, as well as the Middle East and South America.
A Hanwha Systems official said, “We are pleased to have successfully localized CBMS and to be able to contribute to the Republic of Korea Navy’s self-reliant national defense,” adding, “With interest in unmanned ships increasing worldwide, we hope that CBMS will serve as an important bridgehead for global unmanned ship deployment.”