Case Study: Ulstein achieves radically improved ship automation efficiency with Qt Group

Qt Brings Ulstein’s Daring & Industry Disruptive Vision to Reality

The maritime solutions company Ulstein required a modern HMI and automation system to prepare the shipbuilding industry for the digital future. They needed a flexible, scalable platform to develop user-friendly interfaces for complex vessel operations. To achieve this, Ulstein partnered with vendor Qt to utilize the Qt development framework.

By implementing Qt, Ulstein's development team drastically reduced the time to create HMIs from over 1000 hours to just 50 hours. The Qt framework provided extensive libraries and a declarative design approach that enabled efficient, cross-platform development for a unified control system. This solution from Qt provided Ulstein with a scalable platform that radically improves operational efficiency and serves as the foundation for all future systems and more autonomous operations.

Ulstein

Rune Volden

R&D Manager