I’d like to dissect one of the most complicated processes any manufacturing environment faces in designing, manufacturing, and building their products. As most people know, the Bill of Materials, or BOM, is the most essential piece of information that any product development and manufacturing company has to have. Effective BOM management allows you to have shorter lead times, less errors in manufacturing and assembly and in the end, reduces the “Cost of Doing Business.” One of the common Continue Reading
3 Green Technologies Pioneered by ShipConstructor Users
SSI clients have used the company’s ShipConstructor CAD/CAM software to design projects incorporating big new innovations with big environmental impacts. These solutions have, and will, result in dramatically improved fuel efficiency and reduced costs to ship owners. Less fossil fuel out of the ground, less emissions into the air, and less cost to shippers equals less cost to consumers and less cost to the environment; all in all, “GREEN” looks pretty good for many different bottom lines. Below Continue Reading
Helping Steer the World’s Largest Container Ships
Anytime you see a big freighter, most likely, at least part of it was designed with ShipConstructor. That is because the majority of the world’s large container ships are equipped with a rudder solution designed in ShipConstructor software by SSI client Becker Marine Systems. Continue Reading
World’s leading live fish carrier designer goes 3D with ShipConstructor
Complex Designs SSI client Skipskompetanse in Norway is using ShipConstructor software to produce complex designs for the fish farming industry. World-Leading Company Within this niche market, Skipskompetanse has established itself as the world-leader. By designing the Ro Master in 2007, the company’s Managing Director Per Jørgen Silden was the first to create a design that crossed the 2000 cubic metre limit for volume of fish tanks. Skipskompetanse AS was established the same year and the Continue Reading
Andrea Bocelli’s Custom Yacht from Vripack
At over 75 million records sold worldwide, no one has brought classical music and opera to the world quite like blind Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli. He has sang for the Pope, the US President and the Queen. His 1997 album Romanza was the best-selling album by an Italian artist of any genre in history and he captured a listing in the Guinness Book of World Records with the release of Sacred Arias. Bocelli, whose beautiful voice has brought pleasure and comfort to so many people, had high Continue Reading
USS America: Building the U.S. Naval Forces Platform of the Future … Today
During this year’s Fleet Week in San Francisco, the US Navy will commission its latest warship, the USS America (LHA 6). Shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) used various Autodesk software products along with a tightly integrated shipbuilding application from SSI called ShipConstructor to ensure more efficient and effective construction. The USS America is the lead ship in the U.S. Navy’s new America-class of amphibious assault ships. The America is nearly three football fields in Continue Reading
Is your business looking over the horizon?
Be Prepared Are you prepared for growth? Or… are you prepared for the opposite scenario: challenging times or fierce competition that force you to up your game? One SSI client that has proven the ability to adapt to challenges is Horizon Shipbuilding in Bayou La Batre, Louisiana, USA. Horizon builds and repairs a variety of commercial, government and recreational vessels up to 300’ in length. The company has constantly scanned the horizon, looking for new opportunities and has adopted new Continue Reading
ShipConstructor’s Key Role in Missile Defense
We are not allowed to share all the details but here is what we can say. SSI’s ShipConstructor CAD/CAM software is used to help build several key elements of the United States Ballistic Missile Defense System. These include not just sea components but parts of the land system as well. This is an example of how despite the fact that ShipConstructor is optimized for shipbuilding, the program’s flexibility and power make it capable of handling other engineering challenges involving complex metal Continue Reading
Three Reasons to take ShipConstructor Training
Learning ShipConstructor is “easy” (compared to other software) AutoCAD based ShipConstructor software is the easiest to learn and use of any shipbuilding specific CAD/CAM application. It’s built on top of a familiar AutoCAD foundation so if you know AutoCAD, it’s a natural extension of the same familiar tool. On top of that, SSI goes even further to ensure that ShipConstructor “thinks shipbuilding” by incorporating shipbuilding concepts and terminology into the User Experience itself. This Continue Reading
Upcoming Licensing Changes and how that affects ShipConstructor Users
SSI will be introducing some significant changes with the rollout of ShipConstructor 2015, targeted for release in July 2014. We will be implementing a new licensing model as well as a new invoicing & quoting order system. With the leap forward in licensing technology we decided to also bring our in-house, proprietary, quoting and invoicing SSI Order System up to date as well. These 2 fundamental changes provide the opportunity for multiple peripheral but related changes that will allow Continue Reading