SSI Solution Update: February 2026

• Reduce time spent tracking down mismatched associations across projects.
• Improve confidence that parallel projects stay aligned as changes accumulate.
• Make synchronization workflows easier to review and act on.

When you are keeping sister ships aligned, small differences can quickly turn into time-consuming reconciliation work. PIL Compare streamlines synchronization by letting teams compare Project Item Lists between two projects, then review results in a clear format that supports sorting and action. This capability also supports the transfer of PIL associations within WorkShare Transfer, helping teams apply changes consistently across related projects.

• Reduce manual effort and special-case modeling when routing through profile parts.
• Penetration management across more real-world conditions.
• Improve downstream clarity with automatic part marking support.

Penetrations are now enabled through profile parts such as stiffeners, faceplates, and fabricated profiles. The workflow is designed to feel familiar: use the existing dialogs, standards, and commands as part of your process to create, update, and manage these penetrations.

A new Penetrable Mark Text option also supports automatically adding penetration details directly onto parts for clearer downstream communication.

• Reduce custom modeling and minimize missed cutouts in production.
• Keep penetrations aligned with equipment changes through automatic review triggers.
• Improve consistency by managing equipment-driven penetrations the same way as other penetrations.

Equipment parts can now be used as penetration objects, giving designers a managed, traceable way to create penetrations for items like companionways, doors, transits, hatches, and electrical components.

Because the penetration is directly tied to the equipment object, changes to the equipment automatically trigger a review of the related penetration. These penetrations are managed through the Penetration Manager just like other penetrations, eliminating custom cutouts and manual space creation.

• Improve production readiness by making penetrations first-class BOM items.
• Reduce manual annotation effort and help prevent missing information on drawings.
• Support clearer fabrication and installation planning with consistent labeling.

Penetrations can now be included in production drawing Bill of Materials outputs for arrangement, assembly, and spool drawings, with the option to label penetrations in the viewport from the BOM.

• Spend less time troubleshooting labeling behaviors and viewport edge cases.
• Reduce drawing rework by improving predictability and control.
• Move from model to shop-floor outputs with fewer manual steps.

Production drawing creation and maintenance is improved with updates that strengthen both capability and usability across labeling and annotation workflows. Updates also extend to related features such as Keywords, Orientation Icons, and Viewports.

These improvements are aimed at ensuring that it is easy to generate the exact outputs you require.

• Keep SWBS aligned across systems without modeling changes.
• Improve downstream planning, reporting, and package context with consistent SWBS metadata.
• Reduce manual data handling when moving between engineering and downstream workflows.

A Ship Work Breakdown Structure (SWBS) managed in ShipbuildingPLM can now be synchronized into ShipConstructor as a secondary product hierarchy. This allows local parts to be enriched with SWBS data regardless of object type, and that data can then be transferred back to ShipbuildingPLM as part properties contained in work packages.