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.

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        • You need a partner with a global presence.

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        • The latest on SSI and shipbuilding.

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        • 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.

Technical Requirements

Supported Operating Systems: XP (32-bit), Vista (32-bit and 64-bit), Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit), Windows Server 2003 (32-bit), Windows Server 2008 (32-bit and 64-bit) Windows Server 2008 R2 (32-bit and 64-bit)
SQL Servers: SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3, SQL Server 2008, and SQL Server 2008 R2
Supported AutoCAD Platforms: AutoCAD2010 and AutoCAD 2011

 

New Features in ShipConstructor 2011 R2

 

Increased Speed
ShipConstructor 2011 R2 reduces wait time by lessening the amount of time required to create and update assembly, arrangement, spool, and support construction drawings by up to 50%.

Batch Updatable Production Drawings
ShipConstructor 2011 R2 increases efficiency by providing the ability to update multiple arrangement, assembly, spool, or support construction drawings in a single operation. Drawings to update are selected from a drawing list then batch updated with results written to an easy to read logfile.

Increased Speed and Batch Update
Increased Speed and Batch Update (click on image to enlarge)

Enhanced ProductHierarchy
ShipConstructor 2011 R2 provides a much more flexible and powerful way of organizing project data by removing the unit constraint from non-primary product hierarchies. The separation of Navigator units from ProductHierarchy units allow units in Navigator to be defined in a way that makes sense for organizing projects, distributing work, and maximizing the benefits of part relationships. Alternate product hierarchies can be created to group parts for build strategy design, model attribution, production output generation, as well as for reporting.

Enhanced Product Hierarchy
Enhanced Product Hierarchy (click to enlarge)

Project Equipment List
ShipConstructor 2011 R2 extends the Marine Information Model (MIM) with the addition of the Project Equipment List, the next stage of development in ShipConstructor’s electrical module. The Project Equipment List allows users to define and manage the project master equipment list and associated electrical connections within ShipConstructor. It is designed to be the hub of equipment data, linking the 3D product model to other engineering disciplines and providing a mechanism for reconciling changes to the 3D model through the design cycle. ShipConstructor 2011 R2 provides toolsets for creating and managing the Project Equipment List, inserting parts in the 3D model using data in the Project Equipment List, and generating reports that allow differences between the Project Equipment List and the 3D model to be identified.

Project Equipment List
Project Equipment List (click to enlarge)

Improved Change Management
ShipConstructor 2011 R2 enhances already powerful associative DWG production drawings to simplify change management and production document revisioning. Production drawing updates can now be undone which provides a more precise mechanism for managing change in the ShipConstructor model. Additionally, ShipConstructor now allows old versions of assembly, arrangement, support construction, and spool drawing DWG files to be manually copied back to the project folder and reconciled to the model. Weld Management, Interference, and Product Hierarchy drawings are now updatable in the same manner as assembly, arrangement, support construction, and spool drawings.

Improved Change Management
Improved Change Management (click to enlarge)

Updatable Twisted Stiffeners
ShipConstructor 2011 R2 reduces duplication of effort due to change by offering a new one step process for updating model drawing twisted stiffeners from changes made in the hull module. Rather than deleting the old part version in the destination model drawing and re-exporting the part, using the Update Twisted Stiffener Part command allows the desired part to be easily replaced with new geometry while saving the user from re-entering information such as product hierarchy locations.

Twisted Stiffener
Twisted Stiffener (click to enlarge)

Reports by Model Drawing
ShipConstructor 2011 R2 provides greater access to project data by allowing reports to be generated by model drawing. Users now have the ability to generate reports by product hierarchy, system, and model drawing.

Reports by model drawing
Reports by model drawing (click to enlarge)

For download information, view the Updates page.