Software, services, and expertise for the business of shipbuilding.

        • Achieve a Quick ROI
        • Sliced implementations and our expertise means a benefit from day one, without a lengthy setup.

        • Integrate, Collaborate, Re-use
        • SSI’s Open Shipbuilding Platform gives you a future-proof source of truth for your shipbuilding projects.

        • Change Management
        • Get visibility into changes, understand the impacts, and have the right information at the right time to execute the change.

        • Adapt and Innovate
        • Create a local or virtualized shipbuilding environment for your global distributed workforce.

        • Changing from Another Solution
        • SSI makes it easy to switch from other platforms and keep your existing data.

        • Design
        • The most significant opportunities to impact the cost of building and operating a ship are found in the design and engineering phase.

          Initial Design  |  Basic Design  |  Detailed Design

        • Build
        • Even a smaller shipbuilding project is immense in scope and scale. Manage the challenges that are unique to ship construction.

          Prepare  |  Fabricate  |  Assemble

        • Maintain
        • With the majority of a ship’s life taking place after it’s been built, it’s crucial to ensure that the organization has a clear picture of the vessel at all times.

          Digital Twin  |  Repair / Refit  |  Operations

        • Nexus
        • SSI Nexus is the place where users, creators, & implementers of SSI software get together. Here they discuss best practices & industry trends, tackle common challenges, gain access to the latest software, and provide input into the future of the products that bring them together.

        • MyLearning
        • SSI MyLearning is where SSI users can access detailed training exercises, materials, courses, and certifications. The self-directed training curriculum ensures that training happens on your schedule and when you need it most.

        • SSI Blogs
        • The SSI blog is your place to get insights into the intersection of shipbuilding and technology, how our industry is moving forward, and keep up with SSI news. It’s the only place to read the latest from Denis Morais and Darren Larkins, SSI’s co-CEOs.

          Lighthouse Waveform  |  Shipbuilding Solutions

        • ShipConstructor
        • Engineering information is a shipbuilder’s most important asset. Getting that information to fit your business means using a solution that is built to handle shipbuilding’s unique challenges and information requirements throughout each stage of a vessel’s lifecycle.

        • EnterprisePlatform
        • Every process in a shipyard requires data. Seamlessly sharing that data across tools in the correct format needed allows for meaningful, actionable information to be consumed throughout the organization. Providing the freedom to choose the tailored tools required for a shipbuilding project.

        • ShipbuildingPLM
        • ShipbuildingPLM is the only product lifecycle management (PLM) platform that is specifically built for the business of shipbuilding. It allows your shipyard to manage and organize information, understand change, build a foundation for digital innovation, and support MRO activities – without the risks and costs of traditional PLM implementations.

        • Company
        • Learn more about SSI and our leadership.

        • Locations & Contact
        • You need a partner with a global presence.

        • News
        • The latest on SSI and shipbuilding.

        • Events
        • Join us at our next event, conference, or trade show.

        • Partners
        • Learn more about our Platform and Development Partners.

        • Clients
        • See the industry leaders who trust SSI.

        • Careers
        • Help us make the business of shipbuilding possible.

Unlike in other industries, where businesses are willing to look at returns months or years down the road, the best shipbuilders aim to see ROI on the current project, or even the current block about to be cut, no matter what.

Technology implementation cannot impact the delivery of any existing or future project. The most successful capital investments will be those that can be stood up quickly and deliver value from day one.


Shipbuilding’s ROI Challenge

The challenge is to use the best available tools, but without lengthy implementation or adjustment periods.

With so many different tools, scripts, and systems already in place within a shipyard and with existing ongoing projects that cannot be disrupted, any new solution must work within that existing reality.

The keys to seeing a quick ROI in the world of digital shipbuilding are:

  • Authoring data only once.
  • Re-using information across departments, systems, and hulls.
  • Streamlining processes to precisely what is needed.
  • Have pre-configured data with item types, including parts, assemblies, drawings, spools, systems, and nests.
  • Be ready out of the box to show engineering, planning, and production teams the most essential information.

Getting Up to Speed Quickly

Since our founding over 30 years ago, SSI solutions have been built on industry-standard, commercial-grade platforms that are familiar and make it possible for users to become proficient in weeks rather than months. Microsoft SQL Server, Autodesk, and Aras foundations fit naturally with your team’s current skills and with your organization’s existing security and backup procedures.

I’m an expert in many different CAD software platforms and have taken numerous courses before. I can confidently say that the SSI ShipConstructor course is by far the best with its well laid out lessons and instructions.

Bill Bailey, Detail Designer

When designers and engineers are already familiar with the underlying technologies and interfaces, the amount of time it takes for your organization to start seeing clear benefits is minimized, and your teams are more productive than with any other shipbuilding CAD solution on the market.

See how establishing a training program that incorporated SSI MyLearning and addressed shipbuilding challenges helped Genoa Design International achieve: 

  • Massive company growth. 
  • Success in remote onboarding. 
  • Shorter times to proficiency. 
  • Industry-leading training. 

Typical enterprise implementation or integration projects in shipbuilding have ROI targets measured in years. Even then, they do not solve many of the challenges they set out to address. Our goal is to deliver incremental value to shipbuilders with ROI measured in months, not years.

Darren Larkins, co-CEO

PLM Implementation Success

See how an incremental approach allowed SSI and our partner Aras to implement a PLM solution at Ingalls Shipbuilding within only nine months.

Seeing Benefit from Day 1

Transitioning CAD, PLM, ERP, or any other system always adds additional risk. Picking the tools and strategies that make it possible to complete such a transition – in a way that reduces the time spent making the change – should be the number one priority for shipbuilders. An incremental overlay strategy is one way of mitigating these risks.

Having an open enterprise architecture that will support all current and future activities, especially the ones that we do not know of yet, is one strategy. It ensures that the benefits of innovation are immediate and don’t need to be replaced all over again down the road.

Another strategy is an overlay approach. By overlaying technical solutions during a transition period, it is possible to simultaneously adopt the new system while temporarily maintaining the old system. Doing so means that the additional benefits of a new system are unlocked right away, no functionality is lost. As processes switch over to the new system, the old one can be deprecated. The open architecture behind our solutions makes this incremental strategy possible. By consuming from any source and pushing data anywhere it needs to go, it’s easy to use data from existing sources without friction.


Ongoing Partnership

The shipbuilders who are most successful with their digital transformation engage work hand-in-hand with their technology partners. This is one of the keys to moving from a legacy mentality to a forward-looking, digitally-driven business. Organizations who choose to go it alone will find that a business cannot truly transform entirely from within. A strategic partnership between shipbuilders and solution providers makes it possible to achieve digital success.