In the wake of the recent announcement that Alion Canada has invested in SSI’s EnterprisePlatform Software, Seaspan’s Vancouver Shipyards have decided to invest in SSI’s innovative application for leveraging engineering information. The software will be used to aid in the process of designing, engineering and constructing projects for Canada’s National Shipbuilding Strategy (NSS).
SSI EnterprisePlatform is software that enables the enormous wealth of engineering information stored in a ship’s virtual product model to be utilized by an entire team.
About Vancouver Shipyards
Seaspan’s Vancouver Shipyards have been selected under the Government of Canada’s National Shipbuilding Strategy to be Canada’s West Coast Centre of Excellence and long-term partner for the building of Canada’s Non-Combat vessels. The multi-billion dollar Non-Combat program involves 3 Offshore Fisheries and Science Vessels (OFSV), 1 Offshore Oceanographic Science Vessel (OOSV), 2 Joint Support Ships (JSS), 1 Polar Icebreaker, 5 Medium Endurance Multi-Tasked Vessels and 5 Offshore Patrol /Vessels.
About SSI
SSI develops Autodesk based solutions for the shipbuilding and offshore industry including: ShipConstructor software, an AutoCAD based CAD/CAM product line; and EnterprisePlatform, a tool for sharing product data model information. SSI solutions take advantage of the native DWG platform and the global pools of experience provided by the world’s most popular CAD platform.