History and background
LIoyd’s Register ODS specialises in engineering dynamics. The company provides expert advice to the marine, energy, and rail industries – reducing technical and commercial risk and enhancing asset performance. The company’s expertise covers noise & vibration control, the dynamics of rotating machinery and the dynamics of structures. The company was founded in 1980, under the name Ødegaard & Danneskiold-Samsøe. In 2005, the company was acquired by the maritime classification society, Lloyd’s Register, to link up with and strengthen the consultancy services offered. Today, Lloyd’s Register ODS is an integral part of the Lloyd’s Register Group, working to help improve quality, safety and business performance.
Product and service portfolio
As a consultancy, Lloyd’s Register ODS is a purely service-based corporation. Its maritime service portfolio includes noise & vibration assessment, sea trial assistance, measurement surveys, troubleshooting, as well as laboratory measurement of sound insulation properties of materials and components. Additionally, it offers technical client training within many of its expertise areas.
Business presence and service stations
Lloyd’s Register ODS employs some 60 engineers, situated in the main office in Denmark and in satellite offices in Norway, Sweden and France. Representatives are sited in Lloyd’s Register Group offices in Houston, Dubai and Singapore. The Lloyd’s Register Group as a whole includes some 7,500 people in 240 offices worldwide. Historically, Lloyd’s Register was a specifically maritime organisation, but later diversified into other industries, including oil & gas, process industries, nuclear and rail. Today, the Lloyd’s Register Group embraces more than 100 specialist companies that provide expertise and independent services to a wide range of market sectors and industries.
Business competitiveness
LIoyd’s Register ODS has earned an international reputation for highly focused R&D and is the partner of choice for a large and diverse client base, which for the maritime segment includes shipowners, shipyards, naval architects and component suppliers, worldwide. With access to the technical expertise of the Lloyd’s Register Group, Lloyd’s ODS can take on a wide range of technical problems.
Motivation to participate in PROTEUS
For Lloyd’s Register ODS, the drive to participate in the PROTEUS project is to explore new business opportunities through inspired industry collaboration. Application of the PSS methods may potentially help to identify hitherto uncharted client bases and further tailor solutions to market needs.