‘White paper’ for recession-beating shipbuilding

The company says that the paper explores how shipyards can optimise the design, procurement and production process through improved information management, shortening schedules, increasing productivity and driving down costs.

Written by a team of naval architects and shipbuilding engineers, the paper analyses a number of processes said to have a direct impact on the profitability and success of shipyards, including:

• Business capture and sales
• Executive management information
• Planning and control
• Engineering and design
• Procurement and supply chain
• Stock and logistics
• Production
• Commissioning and delivery
• The extended shipyard

Aveva explains that the paper examines how today’s highly globalised shipbuilding projects often struggle with very localised and disconnected information assets. These “silos” of information make it difficult for shipyards to cope profitably and safely with the amounts of data that the shipbuilding process generates.

The paper proposes the integration of both process and technology, so that all data can be validated, shared, audited, automated and re-used, across all business requirements. The integrated shipyard can also operate efficiently in a global environment with multiple vendors and subcontractors, dispersed across many different countries.

The whitepaper is available for download from Aveva’s website.