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June 2007
Events News
Successful Shipbuilding Forum Held by PROSTEP
Darmstadt-headquartered PROSTEP AG is continuing its move into new branches of industry which have similarly complex PLM requirements to those of the automotive and aerospace industries. In May, the company held the Shipbuilding Forum 2007 in Bremerhaven - a unique event of its kind for the shipbuilding industry. Over 50 participants from Germany and neighboring countries met at the German Maritime Museum to gather information about new solutions for IT-based ship development and discuss the requirements of the shipbuilding industry with regard to product lifecycle management (PLM).
"Ships are extremely complex products with a large number of different companies involved in their development and manufacture, and the work performed by these companies must be harmonized on a continual basis. The ships' future owners and operators must also be involved in this harmonization process so that their requirements can be accommodated as early as possible", explained Joachim Christ, marketing director at PROSTEP AG. "With the shipbuilding forum, PROSTEP has create a platform for communication and the exchange of information regarding the use of IT in ship development that was well received by the shipbuilding industry."
The feedback PROSTEP received from those attending the forum was extremely positive. The topics addressed at this year's event included how ship development and manufacturing could be more closely coupled. The prerequisite for this is better process and data integration with regard to the design systems used in shipbuilding with the aim of achieving a higher degree of validation in the digital phase of ship development. However, the extremely heterogeneous CAD and PDM environment in which this development takes place makes this difficult. Thanks to its many years of experience in the field of data and process integration in supplier chains with the heterogeneous system environments typical for the automotive and aerospace industries, PROSTEP AG is able to provide optimum support for this integration task to companies in the shipbuilding industry.
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