Competing on Complexity
Specialized shipyards build and maintain some of the most demanding vessels in service: offshore support vessels, patrol craft, research vessels, dredgers and specialized industrial ships. They have the capability for complex tonnage, but lean teams leave little room for rework or for information lost between engineering and production. Meanwhile, larger yards are moving into their segments and owners want shorter schedules, tighter tolerances and fuller digital deliverables at handover.
This white paper looks at where efficiency losses occur in specialized shipbuilding and what yards should evaluate when choosing ship design and information management software. Topics include work sharing across concurrent projects, ERP-linked production information, 2D drawings for class approval and the vendor’s support model. It closes with recommendations for yards planning their next investment.
At Tersan Shipyard in Türkiye, the design team now runs 10 concurrent projects with the resources that previously handled 7. Seaspan Shipyards has automated 75% of its assembly planning workload, and production supervisors at Damen Shipyards use Cadmatic eShare on tablets to open drawings, project planning and ERP data on the shop floor. Cadmatic has focused on shipbuilding for more than 40 years and serves over 1,100 customers in the marine industry across 60 countries.