Dutch maritime branch organization NMT embraces OMDS initiative

‘Uniform digital product information helps to strengthen the competitive position of the maritime manufacturing industry’  (Arnold de Bruijn, Sector Manager NMT)

A few years ago, Royal Boskalis Westminster, Damen Shipyards Group, Royal IHC and Koninklijke Van Oord started an initiative to arrive at a uniform product data standard for specific maritime parts and articles. This resulted in the One Maritime Data Standard, or OMDS for short. The main objective here is to increase efficiency within the maritime supply chain and reduce failure costs as a result of incorrectly selected and ordered materials.

2BA as a strategic platform for OMDS

Following the example of the Dutch installation industry, 2BA has also been chosen by OMDS as the digital data platform where (product) supply and demand within the maritime manufacturing industry will increasingly find each other.

Supported by industry organization

Being the branch organization for this sector, NMT (Netherlands Maritime Technology) now fully supports this initiative by OMDS and the role of 2BA in this. After all, the solution offered fits completely within NMT’s sector strategy with regard to digitization and chain collaboration and contributes to improving the international competitive position of the Dutch shipbuilding sector. In order to implement this sector strategy in concrete terms, NMT organizes several meetings in which all chain partners meet, inspire each other and joint initiatives can be launched. OMDS is invited to present their solution.

Join the 2BA Maritime Cluster!

Is your company, as a supplier or customer, also active in the maritime industry? And do you want to continue to receive news items in this area from 2BA in the future? Then ask your 2BA superuser to set the checkmark ‘Maritime/Nautical‘ at 2BA for Sectors within your 2BA MY-environment. As a result, your company will now be part of the ‘2BA Maritime Cluster’ and you will not have to miss anything about further developments in this area.

It is also important for suppliers to know that visitors to the 2BA website can now also filter the participating manufacturers, agents, importers and wholesalers on ‘Maritime’. All the more reason to quickly tick the box next to this sector if your company actually supplies materials for this sector!