SSI’s new integration with PipeCloud enables unprecedented shop-floor visibility and connection for project pipe prefabrication and planning throughout the entire shipbuilding process.
SSI and PipeCloud Connect Shipbuilding Digital Twin to Pipe Shop Execution
SSI and PipeCloud have introduced a new integration that helps shipbuilders connect engineering data with pipe prefabrication planning, automation, and production control.
For shipbuilders who have chosen SSI’s digital shipbuilding platform, the integrated solution supports a more connected workflow from ship design through pipe spool fabrication, reducing manual handoffs and improving shop-floor visibility.
A connected workflow for pipe fabrication
Pipe fabrication is still one of the more manual parts of shipbuilding. Many yards still rely on spreadsheets, paper-based tracking, and manual re-entry between engineering and production.
The integrated solution helps close that gap by connecting shipbuilding information from 3D CAD systems with planning and downstream pipe spool execution.
Together, the integration helps shipyards:
- Reduce manual handoffs between engineering and production.
- Replace disconnected spreadsheets and paper processes.
- Improve accuracy in pipe spool planning and execution.
- Increase visibility into work in progress.
- Support a more scalable digital workflow for outfitting.
From engineering data to production-ready work
SSI provides the shipbuilding design, engineering, and production information. PipeCloud extends from different shipbuilding and piping design and engineering systems into pipe prefabrication with tools for planning, CNC preparation, nesting, work orders, production tracking, and workshop execution.
The combined value includes:
- Better alignment between design intent and shop-floor output.
- More production-ready information for pipe shops.
- Less manual manipulation of data before fabrication begins.
- Clearer QA traceability through the spool manufacturing process.
Built for shipbuilders
This is not a generic workflow. It is a shipbuilding-focused approach designed for naval and commercial yards that want to see a tangible impact on their bottom-line and yard velocity.
Better productivity in the pipe shop
By improving the flow of information into the workshop, the integrated solution helps pipe teams spend less time preparing work and more time executing it. Users have seen:
- 5x faster planning for pipe spools.
- Welders and cutters receiving work orders directly at their workstation.
- Dramatic reduction in paper-based coordination on the shop floor.
- Increased automation, driven directly from CAD output.
