Wuchang Shipyard implements PTC solutions

PTC, the product development company, has supplied its shipbuilding solution programs to Wuchang Shipyard. This software, comprising of Windchill PDMLink, Windchill ProjectLink and CADDS(R) 5i, will be used as a production design management platform in the Chinese shipyard.

Wuchang is now using the solution in production, making the shipyard one of the most technologically advanced companies in China’s highly competitive shipbuilding industry.

Wuchang Shipyard, founded in 1934, is a subsidiary of the China Shipbuilding Industrial Corporation and is one of China’s largest and most modernized shipyards with capabilities to design, build, and repair various types of ships for commercial and military use.

The completion of the PTC Shipbuilding Solution implementation is expected to bring about revolutionary changes in Wuchang Shipyard’s business processes, particularly in the way product data is managed. The shipyard uses Windchill ProjectLink as a collaborative tool for the R&D, manufacturing and production departments, thereby enabling concurrent engineering, shortening product design lead-time and accelerating time-to-market. Windchill PDMLink consolidates what used to be scattered islands of information, controlling the typically chaotic product change management processes, thus increasing productivity and preventing costly design errors. The broad functional application set of CADDS 5i is used for ship design and 3-D modeling, enabling the users’ ability to reference each other?s evolving designs and facilitating concurrent engineering. The PTC Shipbuilding Solution allows project managers to better control and resolve problems earlier in the development cycle.

In line with its business expansion plans, Wuchang Shipyard intends to increase usage of Windchill and CADDS 5i throughout its organization in the future.