Smart Ports

Rotterdam, Erasmus UniversityJune 2th, 2016

Willem Van der Graaf

1. Introduction iTanks

2. Smart Ports

3. Examples

Content

Innovation by Collectivity

Founded: January 2012

• Independable platform for Innovation

• Sharing Knowledge & bringing the right people together

• Focus: port and port related industries

Organization

-Brainstormsessions

-Masterclasses

-Breakfast Pitches

-Roundtable sessions

-Workshops

-Fieldtrips

-Congresses

-Researchprograms

-iTanks Finance portal

-Rotterdam Investment Club

• Founded: January 2012• Started at the Maasvlakte Olie Terminal

History

AnswersQuestions- Safety- Efficiency- Sustainability- Environment

Team

Cor Van de Linde Ron Vaz Dias Angela Hulst

CEO & FounderiTanks

Director iTanksFoundation

Financial Director

Robin Groen Willem Van der Graaf Paul Hoogendijk Colette Vermunt

Marketing Innovation Officer Projectmanager Administration

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Innovation

iTanks enables an innovation platform with more than 140 participating asset owners, industrial contractors, SME’sand universities

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Role iTanks

Problem Idea Concept Business planStartingupventure

Financing Building Marketing

Asset owners/ contractors Share a problem with iTanks

Involving SME’s/technical experts

Processmanagement

Drafting business case

Involving rightparties from thenetwork in purposeof collabration

Rotterdam Investment Club

Proces management

Bringing theproduct in contact with industralmarket

Scan of technicalissues asset owners

Creative brainstorm Testing the market Knowledge of industry/ Market research

If necessaryassemble a team

iTanks Crowdfinance

Technical expertise iTanks

Alternativeapplications

Approachingentrepreneurs iTankswith assistance forproblem

Matchmaking betweenproblem andinnovations

Network of technical experts (TU/Eindhoven)

LOI’s /organizingorders in thenetwork

Network of investors

Testing in themarket of theiTanks network

Involving idea’s of other segments

DraftingInvestmentMemorandum

Requestingsubsidy’s

Approachingentrepreneurs/ inventors iTanks withidea

Entrepreneurs from the network

Problem Idea ConceptBusiness

planStartingup

ventureFinancing Building Marketing

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Co-operation iTanks platform

iTanks industrial netwerk(140 asset owners and SME’s)

Yes! Delft

Gemeente Rotterdam

Startup DeltaBrainportEindhoven

TNO

Venture Generator

TU’s

HbR

Rotterdam Investment

ClubScience Cup ECEWCM

Port Accelerator

Rotterdam Partners

CICBrainportEindhoven

TU’s

CollinCrowdfund

PNO Science Cup

Yes! DelftGMC

Maker Space

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Innovation

To start the development phase:

- Test location / potential client- Investor- Entrepreneur

• Translas 7XE Extractor torch

• Boskalis ‘Jopie’ cleaning robot

• Innovative paintsprayer

• SAM – Safety at Mainport

• iWeld – Laserwelding

Examples

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- Reduction of welding fumes exposure by 90-95%- Tested in 40 EU companies- Only technology that meets Dutch regulations- Since december 2014 on the market- February 2016 first order to the US

Extractor

First Prize EARTO InnovationAward 2015

Catagory Impact Delivered

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‘Jopie’ the cleaning robot

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Innovative Paint sprayer

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Safety at Mainport

SAM – Safety Portal

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iWeld Laser Welding

Goal:- Placing & welding time reduction- Cost reduction- Improve safety - Reduce the dependency of skilled personnel

Results (theoretically) - Lead time reduction of 10 weeks - Cost reduction € 280.000 (84m tank)- Safety improvement 3 employees max (instead of 20)

Disruptive Technologies forMaintenance and Operations

DTMO

Large scale Research Program in order to find out the influence of new technologies on common practices

• Crowdfunding (Rotterdam Investment Club)

• Cycloon

• DTMO

Pipeline

• Pipe Robot• Nano Coating• Cleaning with bacteria• Weldingtorch for 3d printing• Robot for automating beneath a

powderdeck

• Nano Paste Solar Energy• Asbestos Processing• Smart Tank-Sensor technology• Robot for rolling up steel• Sand Bed Filter Robot

Smart Port

Incl. Tanks and port relatedbusiness

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iTanks as ‘motor’ to explore new possibilities

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In order to create a solution, you first need a problem…

Examples Smart Port

2. Re-arrange gate-selection at Schiphol airport to generate the shortest walkway from gate to belt

1. Reduce CO² pollution by Cruise Ships in the Rotterdam port

Old

New

Old

New

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Trends

• Data acceleration- Internet of Things, sensor technologies, Big Data

• Circular Economy- Waste doesn’t exist

• Sharing Economy- Example: Carsharing

• Makers Mentality- Startups are competing with esthablished companies

• Crossovers- New collabrations in terms of financing, advice, technique, communication, (health)care

‘From individual challenges to joint solutions’

Creating the technology of the future

Vision

Willem Van der Graafvandergraaf@itanks.eu

www.itanks.eu