Can Modeling and Simulation Unlock More Efficiency for Shipping?

For more than a century and a half, class societies have relied on paper documentation to accomplish their mission. Paper has its uses, but the limitations of its functionality in a digital environment have long been apparent. It is no longer cost effective for designers to produce designs on a drawing board. Instead, they’re created in CAD programs and managed in complex product models.

As recently as the early 2000s, it was still not possible to leverage CAD on the shipyard platen, or drydock, or deck plate. But that started to change about a decade ago. And not just with additive manufacturing and robotic welding, but with people too – using tablets and mobility, smart devices, laser scanning and augmented reality.

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