SSI World Shipbuilding Conference 2022

Brian Blanchette is vice president, Quality and Engineering for Ingalls Shipbuilding, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries. In this role, Brian is responsible for the formulation, management and oversight of the division’s quality program, research & development, ship design engineering, integrated logistics support (ILS) and planning yard programs.

Keynote

The Value of a Strategic Partnership with SSI

Thomas A. (Tom) Schubert is the Chief Engineering Officer of Gibbs & Cox, a wholly owned subsidiary of Leidos, where he provides technical oversight and guidance in strategic engineering capabilities and initiatives necessary to achieve technical and business goals.  Prior becoming the Chief Engineering Officer, he held a variety of staff, project and technical management positions, as well as executive team positions as Vice President – Engineering Group and Vice President – Government Services Group since joining G&C in 1986.

Keynote

 A History of “Growing the Business” with SSI

Mr. Thomas Perrine is the Vice President of Engineering for Austal USA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Austal Limited. In this position, Mr. Perrine reports directly to the Austal USA President and he oversees the work of over 400 engineers, naval architects, designers and other engineering support staff.

Keynote

Driving Innovation & Industry Technology Collaboration through NSRP

The National Shipbuilding Research Program (NSRP) has been a bulwark of shipbuilding innovation in the United States. Austal USA’s Vice President of Engineering showcases how the industry has been driving that innovation, collaborating closely for success, and what results key NSRP projects have achieved.

Brian Blanchette is vice president, Quality and Engineering for Ingalls Shipbuilding, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries. In this role, Brian is responsible for the formulation, management and oversight of the division’s quality program, research & development, ship design engineering, integrated logistics support (ILS) and planning yard programs.

Keynote

The Value of a Strategic Partnership with SSI

Co-founder and manager of B&A Software AS Runar has a Master’s Degree in Naval Architecture from the University of Trondheim in Norway, and has worked for more than 25 years in the mass properties software business. Runar was worked with major shipbuilders and ship designers all over the world as clients and has authored and co-authored several technical papers on the subject of weight engineering.

Presenting

Creating ShipConstructor Parts from ExpressMarine3D
Seamlessly moving early design models into basic and detailed design saves hundreds of modeling hours. Join Runar Aasen to see how an ExpressMarine 3D parametric structure model can be transitioned right to ShipConstructor.

Brian is an experienced and multi-talented business manager with a broad and diverse background including experience as an entrepreneur and general manager, sales manager, business lawyer, and US Naval officer.

Presenting

Advances in DotProduct3D’s Portable Mobile / Handheld Scanning Technology
DotProduct is revolutionizing the way ships of all sizes are designed, built, renovated, and repaired. With the speed and portability of our handheld 3D scanners, marine engineers and naval architects now have accurate 3D information available at their fingertips for use in ShipConstructor throughout design, construction, drydock repairs, and more.

Workshop

DotProduct3D
A session for those interested in seeing first-hand how to incorporate laser scanning and point clouds into their existing workflows.

Chris is VP of Sales & Marketing at DotProduct LLC, where he is more than 8 years. His experience with marketing and management improved companies worldwide.

Presenting

Advances in DotProduct3D’s Portable Mobile / Handheld Scanning Technology
DotProduct is revolutionizing the way ships of all sizes are designed, built, renovated, and repaired. With the speed and portability of our handheld 3D scanners, marine engineers and naval architects now have accurate 3D information available at their fingertips for use in ShipConstructor throughout design, construction, drydock repairs, and more.

Workshop

DotProduct3D
A session for those interested in seeing first-hand how to incorporate laser scanning and point clouds into their existing workflows.

Ian has been in the computer business since 1977. He has been involved in the computer training, software and consultancy businesses since. He joined the company that later became Cloudis Ltd in 1996 and in 2002, in partnership with a colleague, they bought the business.

Presenting

The Cloudis CMPIC Electrical Cable Management System in Practice for Ship Design
The shipyard needs a solution that can manage the complexity of cabling, take advantage of information from the rest of the product model, and make it simple to reference related information downstream. See how Cloudis’ CMPIC solution takes advantage of SSI project data to make the design, routing, and installation of cabling more efficient.

Workshop

CMPIC – Electrical Cable Management
A hands-on session showing how Cloudis’ CMPIC can be used in conjunction with ShipConstructor to make the design, routing, and installation of cabling more efficient.

Joshua leads strategy/strategic partnerships and business development for Cupix. Throughout his career he has worked in various roles in the maritime, offshore oil & gas, and AEC industries. He is an international leader with a unique blend of Sales and Project/Design Management of cross-border teams across functions and countries throughout the Americas, Africa and Asia. He is a graduate of the United States Merchant Marine Academy and served as an officer in the US.

Presenting

Enhanced Visualization Progressing using COTS Construction System
The Most Flexible, Unified 3D Digital Twin Platform – Capture your jobsite in 3D with our simple-to-use mobile app while controlling a 360 camera. Then collaborate by sharing a variety of information related to the built-world lifecycle. All through a single platform.

Virtual Environments Track – Cupix Workshop
The Cupix software will be explored as it is currently being utilized in the Construction Industry for buildings to status work through use of the CAD Model and Scanning Technology over incremental phases of time.  Put your hands on this technology and explore how physical progress of a project can be structured from layers of scanned data that references a CAD Model.

Iker Bizcarguenaga is a Continuous Improvement Specialist with InnovMarine. With several years of experience in manufacturing, he brings a process-driven and detail-oriented mindset to the Marine Business Consulting team. By pairing his background in Industrial engineering and the Prosci Change Management framework, he ensures sustainable improvements across your organization.

Workshop

Custom Tool & Productivity Driver Development Workshop
Every environment is unique and every deployment of technology tools must reflect this to deliver maximum value. Through multiple successful engagements, InnovMarine has developed and refined a process of engagement that identifies and optimizes technical solution deployments. These solutions may include custom technology development or business process enhancements, and often both. In this workshop Jim and Iker will take you through the process and share some of InnovMarine’s lessons learned from successful customer engagements.

Ian is a former military maintainer who served in the UK RAF, then BAE SYSTEMS as a field service representative, followed by Logistics Business Systems as VP of Sales.  Since joining PTC in 2007, Ian has focused on helping PTC customers drive digital transformation throughout their organization, working with clients such as the US Navy, US Army, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon.

Presenting

A Product Lifecycle Management Ecosystem from Design to Sustainment
The digital thread establishes traceability from early in the design through build and sustainment. This presentation from PTC will demonstrate how PLM and Industry 4.0 technologies, can enable shipbuilders to streamline engineering processes and create digital continuity with a cohesive digital thread across the lifecycle.

Naval Architect / Marine Engineer (MS UofM 1983) with design office and shipyard experience.  Today Nick focuses on process optimization, the goal being to help our customers maximize ROI while using our software (but not only).  The corresponding NDAR Consulting framework includes various types of services, including “Business Process Assessment” and “Value Creation Initiative”.

Presenting

A Review of Class Design using SSI Product

Ronald de Vries is Managing Director and co-Owner of Floorganise. His professional experience as a chartered controller and his academic business administration background bridged the gap between top management, the office and shop floor within shipyards.

Presenting

Automated Detailed Planning through Integration of the SSI & Floorganise Product Offering
As projects become more complex, it’s becoming even more important to bridge the gap between engineering and operations. See how Floorganise is able to use ShipbuildingPLM as their single source of truth, ensuring that only accurate and released information, like weld length, weld type, or spool size is downstream to drive automated detailed planning.

Workshop

Floorganise
Ronald de Vries, Managing Director at Floorganise shares hands-on how shipyards can move past traditional trade-offs and connect released information directly from PLM to a shipyard MES.Ronald de Vries, Managing Director at Floorganise shares hands-on how shipyards can move past traditional trade-offs and connect released information directly from PLM to a shipyard MES.

Ray is the Director of Maritme Sales, with a history of producing solid, quantifiable results; experienced in both direct sales and sales management. Well-versed in the areas of operations, product design, and manufacturing.

Presenting

NSRP Research Announcement Project – LiftShip
Ongoing NSRP Research Announcement (RA) Project that has developed an interface between ShipConstructor / EnterprisePlatform to extract 3D detail model data to import into both Finite Element Analysis Software for Altair Engineering’s HyperWorks, and Siemens Femap for analyzing engineered lift scenarios.

Workshop

Finite Element Analysis (FEA) Track – Altair HyperWorks Workshop
In this workshop Altair Engineering will showcase the work they have done to integrate their HyperWorks FEA software with the SSI products ShipConstructor and EnterprisePlatform for processing FEA Meshes with the detail design CAD & metadata. Come see the results the results associated with the work that was performed on the NSRP LiftShip I & II projects.

Jan is a Managing Director at COSTFACT. Fisher is being working with cost management for more than 20 years, with over 14 dedicated to the shipbuilding industry.

Presenting

Using the 3D Design Model Data to Understand Costs Associated with Change
Cost Management starts with the proposal and bidding process. See how CostFact supports cost management throughout all shipbuilding stages including the early phases of design, engineering, calculations that accompany production, and finally to the analysis of a completed project.

Workshop

CostFact
A user practitioner focused session demonstrating how to use the 3D design model in conjunction with CostFact to understand costs associated with change.

Rob is an application engineer and primary technical resource for VizSeek. Rob holds a degree in design technology with over 25 years of sales experience. Rob has also been the principal investigator for multiple Department of Defense projects.

Presenting

VizSeek – ONR Navy ManTech Project Results in a Shipyard Application
Shipbuilding projects are of an incredible scale and complexity. Simplifying that complexity for the user is how VizSeek, the visual search engine, can help organizations optimize the way in which they interact with the information they already have.

Matt is the VP of Sales at VizSeek. He is a frequent speaker to professional organizations on a variety of business topics and has been in industrial sales and marketing for over 25 years. Matt is a graduate of Indiana University and the Art Institute of California. His career includes sales in the heavy truck industry, establishing the North American headquarters of a European industrial manufacturer, and owning an import-export business, during which time he was the US point man for a German deep draw metal stamper and a Swedish supplier of specialty metric fasteners.

Presenting

Vizseek – ONR Navy ManTech Project Results in a Shipyard Application
Shipbuilding projects are of an incredible scale and complexity. Simplifying that complexity for the user is how VizSeek, the visual search engine, can help organizations optimize the way in which they interact with the information they already have.

35+ years as a trusted sales and marketing executive in IT & Related Services in the US and Canada, Mr. Males brings a pragmatic approach to helping clients solve real business problems effectively and affordably. David’s previous experience serving the industrial manufacturing and infrastructure development (AEC) sectors allows him to bring a practical perspective to help the marine and shipbuilding industry address key challenges surrounding digital transformation, lifecycle management, and the impact of emerging technology on current and future workers.

Workshop

SmartShape
Shipbuilding is getting more and more complex. And collaboration between the increasing number of stakeholders is challenged. That’s where SmartShape – a platform to build connected, collaborative, and programmable digital twins – thrives. Discover how SmartShape is used by shipyards to increase quality and cost-efficiency.

Mr. Mendel is a seasoned international business professional with over 35 years of experience in the design automation and product lifecycle management (PLM) business. He has led the Aras North American Operations team and now leads the Aras Government and Defense business. Mr. Mendel is an authority on methodologies and technology solutions for digital transformation, product development and product lifecycle management.

Presenting

Aras Company and Platform Updates – Agile, Upgradeable and Successful Digital Transformation
The Aras mission is to reinvent software for engineering and manufacturing to empower our customers with the flexibility to overcome tomorrow’s challenges. Successful digital transformation initiatives within shipbuilders around the globe have depended on the Aras platform to meet their current and evolving needs. This presentation will include an Aras company and platform update, an overview of our new Enterprise Cloud offering, and a review of our leading shipbuilding users and why they transitioned from their legacy tools to adopt the Aras low-code rapid deployable and fully upgradeable enterprise PLM platform and soluton.

Kenny has spent more than 16 years in the Marine Design industry serving in various job roles including, Senior Designer, Detail & Production Design Supervisor, Project Engineer, and Design Manager. Through developing a close working relationship with tradesman and Pre-fabrication, Kenny specializes in creating production design packages that optimize both manufacturing and production facilities as well as the human capital output.

Presenting

A Partner Case Study – Utilizing EnterprisePlatform to Streamline Generation of Pipe Spool Fabrication Drawings
Partner Case Study by C & C Marine & Repair, supported by the SSI Professional Services Team

Presenting

NSRP Business Technologies Panel Project – Automated Label Plate Generation

Recently funded NSRP Panel Project for FY2022

Josh is responsible for discovering, cultivating, and managing the technical business engagements with 20+ clients representing defense, aerospace, maritime, electronics and consumer products.

Presenting

NSRP Research Announcement Project – LiftShip
Ongoing NSRP Research Announcement (RA) Project that has developed an interface between ShipConstructor / EnterprisePlatform to extract 3D detail model data to import into both Finite Element Analysis Software for Altair Engineering’s HyperWorks, and Siemens Femap for analyzing engineered lift scenarios.

Jean-Christophe Piat is a senior project manager at Austal and an expert in true organization-wide digital transformation. JC has experience implementing PLM and ERP and will be at SSIWSC to discuss Austal’s digital transformation process with SSI.

Presenting

A Partner Case Study – Taking the Digital Transformation Journey with SSI
Austal is a leader in true organization-wide digital transformation. JC Piat, Austal’s Senior Project Manager, showcases how Austal’s approach to PLM implementation, ERP integration, and the milestones they’re working on all work together as part of a holistic transformation effort.

As a consulting and IT executive, Jim has over 30 years of experience delivering business growth through teamwork and successful partnerships. He has led his teams to win Subcontractor of the Year and Outstanding Supplier Performance Award from General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada and Collins Aerospace, respectively, for exceptional performance and contributions to supply chain success.

Workshop

Custom Tool & Productivity Driver Development Workshop
Every environment is unique and every deployment of technology tools must reflect this to deliver maximum value. Through multiple successful engagements, InnovMarine has developed and refined a process of engagement that identifies and optimizes technical solution deployments. These solutions may include custom technology development or business process enhancements, and often both. In this workshop Jim and Iker will take you through the process and share some of InnovMarine’s lessons learned from successful customer engagements.

Workshop

Finite Element Analysis (FEA) Track – Altair HyperWorks Workshop
In this workshop Altair Engineering will showcase the work they have done to integrate their HyperWorks FEA software with the SSI products ShipConstructor and EnterprisePlatform for processing FEA Meshes with the detail design CAD & metadata. Come see the results the results associated with the work that was performed on the NSRP LiftShip I & II projects.

In 2006, she started her career in shipbuilding, working as an Industrial Engineer for Northrop Grumman Ship Systems (Ingalls Shipyard) in Pascagoula, MS.  In 2007, Barbara was hired by Austal USA as a Project Coordinator for the LCS Program.  Over her 15+ years with Austal USA, she has focused on bringing technology-based solutions and process improvements to a variety of business units within the organization.

Presenting

Program Approach to PLM Implementation; Optimizing Functionality through Collaboration
Partner Case Study

Bruno has taken a lead role in several significant CAD/CAM, EDMS/PDM/PLM projects in the shipbuilding, offshore, industrial and nuclear plant industries. He is now the Director of SSI Enterprise Solutions, focused on the evangelization of SSI ShipbuildingPLM technology as well as enterprise implementation efforts for SSI´s global clients.

Presenting

Shipbuilding Lifecycle

Shipbuilding’s unique needs require a shipbuilding-specific solution. SSI’s Director of Enterprise Solutions showcases how your organization can support concurrent design, procurement, and construction and create a digital twin foundation for asset handover to support fleet sustainment and MRO.

PLM and ERP united in an efficient shipyard system architecture

PLM and ERP are sometimes incorrectly perceived as being competing applications within the shipyard. In this presentation Bruno Benevolo will present SSI´s vision as to how these two corporate applications can be made to work together effectively to address procurement and production planning demands, driven by Engineering data.

Presenting

NSRP Business Technologies Panel Project – Automated Label Plate Generation
Recently funded NSRP Panel Project for FY2022

NSRP Research Announcement Project – LiftShip
Ongoing NSRP Research Announcement (RA) Project that has developed an interface between ShipConstructor / EnterprisePlatform to extract 3D detail model data to import into both Finite Element Analysis Software for Altair Engineering’s HyperWorks, and Siemens Femap for analyzing engineered lift scenarios.

Simon is a Solution Specialist at SSI with nearly 20 years of experience as a Designer and CAD Manager at leading shipyards. It is Simon’s goal to digitize the marine industry by eliminating the double handling of work, removing information silos, and creating an efficient, effective end-to-end process with a single source of truth for manufacturing information.

Presenting

Presenting – Getting your ShipConstructor project PLM ready

The benefits of utilizing a PLM system for ship design and manufacture are well known – a centralized platform to share information, improved communication among teams, manage change and configurations, automate processes, standardize development of the product model and much much more! To achieve all these downstream benefits, is your ShipConstructor model set up to get the most out of PLM? This presentation provides a checklist to ensure you’re ready.

Norman Eldridge is a senior Product Owner and has lead SSI’s Client Success Team for over a decade. Norman and the Client Success team recognize the many challenges and trends faced by todays shipbuilding industry.

Presenting

Options for Supporting Geographically Distributed Teams

Shipbuilding industry trends increasingly require the ability to connect geographically distributed teams and partners to projects in real-time. Norman will explain several of SSI’s solutions for supporting geographically distributed teams working on the same project.

Darren’s focus is to deal directly clients to review and offer technical solution recommendations and best practices to target client requirements and assists with implementation. Prior to joining the SSI team Darren Guillory earned his Technical degree at both Delta Junior College and Louisiana Technical College and has spent nearly two decades in the commercial shipbuilding industry (LEEVAC Shipyards).

Workshops

Finite Element Analysis (FEA) Track – Altair HyperWorks Workshop
In this workshop Altair Engineering will showcase the work they have done to integrate their HyperWorks FEA software with the SSI products ShipConstructor and EnterprisePlatform for processing FEA Meshes with the detail design CAD & metadata. Come see the results the results associated with the work that was performed on the NSRP LiftShip I & II projects.

Virtual Environment Track – DotProduct3D Workshop
DotProduct3D Workshop will provide hands on training on various handheld scanning technologies and how those scans can be processed through the DotProduct3D Software and Autodesk ReCap Pro, and then brought into a ShipConstructor Environment for capturing 3D As-Is conditions both new construction verification, capturing of field changes, or for repair applications.

Blair is Senior Product Owner/Product Manager at SSI, specializing in the design and development of applications in C#.

Presenting

Functional Design to Detail Design Transition within ShipConstructor

An overview of PIL based workflows to improve the flow from functional to detail design in ShipConstructor. See the PIL as a representation of the functional design within ShipConstructor, synchronizing with original sources and leveraged to help build out the detailed design. Also learn how change is accommodated in the workflow.

Joseph is a Product Owner at SSI. He is also a naval architect and has had technical lead and product management roles in naval shipbuilding, submarine refit, and commercial vessel procurement.

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How to Manage Change with the Integrated SSI Product Suite

Excellence in change management is critical for shipbuilding success. Through a sample workflow, see how to better manage, execute, and report on an ECO using Locking, Tasks, and ShipExplorer.

Jason Rancourt is an experienced Client Success Specialist who has been with SSI since 2003. He has worked closely with the SSI development team, clients and third party integrators and will be discussing use of Microsoft Power BI to leverage SSI data to solve shipyard problems.

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Utlizing Power BI to Visualize Project Data in the SSI Marine Information Model Reports and Project Insights

From VPs to project managers to production and design engineers, being able to easily access up-to-date project information is critical to making decisions. Learn how SSI is using Microsoft Power BI to facilitate data visualization and analysis for your shipbuilding projects.

Ken Sanderson has been with SSI for 12 years, and as Senior Project Consultant works closely with clients providing consulting services, customized training and support as well as the development teams supplying industry experience, testing and feedback for feature development.

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SSI Product Tips & Tricks that ALL SSI Business Partners Should Be Using

The less time it takes us to design our projects, produce production information, generate reports and spreadsheets and find information the more competitive we are. This session will show you some tips and tricks in both ShipConstructor and EnterprisePlatform software that will save you time, improve information accuracy or just make life easier for you.

Workshops

ShipConstructor – Tips & Tricks

The less time it takes us to design our projects, produce production information, generate reports and spreadsheets and find information the more competitive we are. This session will provide you with hands-on experience with tips and tricks in EnterprisePlatform that will save you time, improve information accuracy or just make life easier for you.

EnterprisePlatform – Tips & Tricks

The less time it takes us to design our projects, produce production information, generate reports and spreadsheets and find information the more competitive we are. This session will provide you with hands-on experience with tips and tricks in EnterprisePlatform that will save you time, improve information accuracy or just make life easier for you.

Jagan Seshadri is a Product Owner at SSI, responsible for EnterprisePlatform and PublisherLT. By understanding clients’ workflows, day-to-day challenges, and future plans, Jagan works to guide the development of the software to serve the needs of industry.

Presenting

ShipbuildingPLM – Current & Future Product Roadmap

ShipbuildingPLM is the only product lifecycle management (PLM) platform that is specifically built for the business of shipbuilding. Discover what the SSI team is tackling next in its development.

Thomas Stokes has been with SSI for 6 years as a Training Specialist, arming our clients with the knowledge to keep them proficient in the software and current with new features.  Prior to Joining SSI, he had  10 years of Marine Design experience in both Pipe & Structural design.

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Understanding How SSI Products Can Assist in Managing Sisterships

Working with sister ships is one of shipbuilding’s toughest challenges. Explore how SSI solutions can help your team manage change, re-use existing work, and minimize downstream impacts.

A Partner Case Study – Utilizing EnterprisePlatform to Streamline Generation of Pipe Spool Fabrication Drawings

Partner Case Study by C & C Marine & Repair, supported by the SSI Professional Services Team.

Prior to SSI he gained several years of shipbuilding experience, advancing in roles as a 3D Modeler, Lead Designer, Detail Design Project Manager and Business Development Officer. He is a SNAME member and for 6 years has been paying back to the marine industry by performing various volunteer rolls for the society, currently as FVP – Knowledge Management.
Craig will start the conference with an overview of SSI’s software evolution since 2018.

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Past, Present & Future – A Product Development Roadmap Review of SSI

SSI is constantly building towards our goal of empowering the business of shipbuilding. Get a first-hand look at our current focus, roadmap for next year, and where we are going beyond 2023 in the development of ShipConstructor, ShipbuildingPLM, and EnterprisePlatform.

Matthew has 14 years of experience working as a drafter, designer, manufacturing engineer, technical supervisor, and project manager at Gunderson Shipyard. Matt is SSI’s Client Success Evangelist and has been a part of every aspect of shipbuilding for decades.

Presenting

Utilizing the ShipConstructor Clash Detection Capabilities

One of the primary goals of a 3D model is to check for problems and correct them before they happen. In this session, learn how Clashes have been improved to run faster and utilize background processing to support real time workflows and how these improved workflows allow designers to stay in their design space, actively check for clashes, and correct them as part of a more streamlined modeling process.

Exploring the Product Model Through the Power Part Views

Navigating project information can present a challenge at any stage of the model development process and SSI now provides more robust tools than ever to provide context for modeling and exploration of the overall model. In this session, you will be introduced to the new ways PartViews can be loaded and tailored to the designer’s needs, explore new methods of filtering object types such as Equipment or Curved plate that allow a designer to control what context is being included, and more.