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        • 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

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        • SSI Nexus is a community for users, creators, & implementers of SSI software.

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        • SSI Certified Training allows SSI users to access detailed training exercises, materials, courses, and certifications.

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        • The SSI blogs are your place to get insights from our CEO into the intersection of shipbuilding and technology, see how shipbuilding is moving forward, and keep up with SSI news.

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        • A complete line of solutions for the design, engineering, and construction of ships and offshore projects.

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        • Tools to connect and share data across every system in the shipyard and make information available.

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        • The only truly shipbuilding-specific product lifecycle management (PLM) platform.

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A massive amount of information is generated during the design, construction and operation of a ship. Equipping your design and engineering teams to work on projects of any scale, effectively track changes of any scale, and seamlessly share information gives you the power to focus on shipbuilding.


Tackling a massive amount of change

Even for a single hull, the amount of change that needs to be managed is immense.  Suppliers, materials, schedules, requirements, labor resources, and finances all fluctuate. To compound the problem, each of those activities also produces information in a unique format, meaning that your organization has to work with data and information that might not play well together. That variety of systems and applications involved throughout the lifecycle of a ship makes deciphering, validating, and achieving any kind of project visibility from this data a huge challenge. 

The sheer number of parts that a ship consists of (a factor of 10 more than aerospace) doesn’t make our problem any easier. Effectively managing those parts, and every change they go through, is not just important; it’s essential. Key aspects of change management, like identifying the change, determining the additional cost of different solutions, assigning and scheduling the change, communicating the change to stakeholders, and managing the changes across sister ships occur at different stages of design construction, and maintenance. The best shipbuilders have visibility across every stage of the vessel’s lifecycle. 

Many departments and processes across a shipyard are affected by changes. Detail planning, capacity planning, purchasing, operations, the shop floor, resource management, testing engineers, weight management, quality control along with many, many others. It is important to synchronize the result of all those changes to all the diverse people within your organization in a way they can consume and use to make decisions. 

The complexity of shipbuilding makes change management one of the most complicated activities we face in shipbuilding.

Denis Morais, SSI co-CEO

To truly harness the scale and focus required by shipbuilding your organization will need to:

  • Equip your design and engineering teams to work on shipbuilding projects of any scale.
  • Track every change that occurs to the vessel effectively.
  • Seamlessly share between all the people, processes, and tools from every team.
  • Collaboratively have your teams, regardless of discipline, working together in the same environment in real time.

Taking back control over the data and information your organization produces, gives you the power to focus on shipbuilding.

Explore SSI’s solutions for tackling the massive scale of shipbuilding.


Managing Change Across Your Organization

[eBook] Managing Change Across Your Organization

Between the reality of design, engineering, construction, and procurement happening at the same time and the sheer number of parts in a ship, change management becomes essential. Download the eBook, authored by Denis Morais, to see the key challenges every shipbuilder must overcome when dealing with change.

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