Adaptive PLM: a key requirement for an effective transition

to the Digital Shipbuilding environment

Bruno Benevolo França, CEO & Co-Founder
TRANSFORMING THE BUSINESS OF SHIPBUILDING
My background
BRUNO BENEVOLO FRANÇA, B.Eng

• 20 year career span: industry specific expertise in EDMS/PDM/VFI for large-scale shipbuilding
and offshore EPC projects as well as senior consulting role in CAD-PDM/PLM-ERP integration
projects.
• SSI partner and lead on CAD/CAM and EDMS/PDM implementation projects for 26 newbuild
FPSO, Semi-sub, Drillship and Suezmax tanker projects for the Brazilian offshore and
shipbuilding industry.
• SSI Lead for the HII-Ingalls PLM implementation project
• ARCOS co-founder.
The Digital Shipbuilding Journey…
Agenda

• ARCOS overview

• Digital Manufacturing in the automotive sector.

• Challenges implementing Digital Shipbuilding.

• What is an adaptive PLM platform?

• Shipbuilding PLM use cases.

ARCOS Overview

TRANSFORMING THE BUSINESS OF SHIPBUILDING

• Joint venture founded by key members of SSI leadership and a senior SSI partner

• Our objective is to help your organization be more competitive and profitable in the
"Business of Shipbuilding".

• Achieve desired process improvements with PLM and ERP implementation projects.

• On time and on budget.

ARCOS Innovations

ARCOS can provide the required shipbuilding expertise and missing technology
components to make your Shipbuilding PLM implementation successful.

ARCOS can provide:

• Shipbuilding PLM consulting and implementation services.

• Specific technology components for Shipbuilding PLM/ERP integration.

Digital Manufacturing in the Automotive Sector
 ESTIMATED DIGITAL MANUFACTURING GAINS FOR UK AUTOMOTIVE SECTOR

2016 KPMG study

 ASIMO

Kawaski Robot Stage, Tokyo

Digital manufacturing in the automotive industry

• A new wave of digital manufacturing initiatives already underway.

• Pervasive use of robotics facilitates end to end flow of digital information.

• Volume of production justifies investment for new automated plants.

Digital Shipbuilding Vision
An orchestrated and automated flow of
digital information across the shipyard.
Digital Shipbuilding Challenges

• “Legacy Port" of known processes still driven by 2D documentation, Excel sheets,

department level databases (Business 0f Engineering).

• New initiatives with robotics underway, but many manufacturing processes still
require human intervention and paper distribution.

• Limited production runs in shipbuilding lead to incremental approach for

manufacturing automation adoption.

• Investments in technology often focus on specific isolated process improvements.

Technology investments for specific process
improvement…

Cost Management application

Robotic Welding

Weight Management
application

But with no underlying platform for integrated and orchestrated

information sharing…
Leads to a familiar scenario…

Shared
Compliance
Drives Engineering DB
Hardware
MCAD BOM’s
Supplier
Software Supplier
DB
Doc Vault Quality
Electronic (EDA) CAPA
CM‘s
Supplier
BOM’s

RFQ’s

CM File Directory
ERP Customer

ECO Database
BOM
Upload
Tool Engineering
D Drive Customer
Compliants
An adaptive PLM platform manages the complexity of incremental
process improvement, maintaining information integrity.

Concept Development Manufacturing Service

Project Management
Tech Docs
Manufacturing Process Planning
Requirements Quality Management
Configuration & Change Management

Adaptive PLM Platform

MBSE ECAD MCAD Maint.

ALM ERP MES
PDM Mgmt.

Simulation Suppliers IOT

Legacy PLM Industry Issues

Legacy PLM business model is wrong for the enterprise:

• Lots of people need access (can’t be a specialist tool).

• Each new module means additional license costs.

• Cost prohibitive to implement and customize.

• Continuous incremental process improvement: mission impossible.

• Systems are difficult to use. New functionality often delivered as a patchwork of software
applications purchased via acquisitions, with no consistent UI.
Shipbuilding is NOT discrete manufacturing

Commercial
Full prototype
Manufacturing &
development
Assembly

Design Critical Phase for Product Engineering

Shipbuilding is NOT discrete manufacturing

Commercial Manufacturing & Assembly

(first production Hull is the “prototype”)

Initial Design Detailed Design & Production Engineering

Why have we not achieved the desired ROI for Shipbuilding PLM?

• PLM systems do not have shipbuilding DNA.

• PLM vendors, IT consultants and system integrators often lack shipbuilding

experience.

• The closed and monolithic technology platforms deployed by legacy PLM vendors
do not have the necessary agility and flexibility to meet the unique requirements
of the shipbuilding industry.

• Do no offer an effective incremental approach for ROI.

ARAS Innovator PLM

ARAS Innovator offers extensive out-of-the-box functionality and an open and modern web-based
architecture, enabling customers to deploy quickly and continuously enhance their PLM environment
in a fraction of the time required by conventional enterprise PLM / PDM systems.

The bottom line for Shipbuilding PLM: Aras Innovator is a truly adaptive PLM platform that can scale in
configuration complexity AND offer the required agility to meet specific shipbuilding requirements.

With Aras PLM shipyards can experience incremental gains, avoiding the high risk big-bang
implelmentation scenario.
Shipbuilding PLM use cases:
putting the adaptive PLM platform to work
 Shipbuilding PLM use cases
3D Navisworks viewables PDM Production Floor ERP
of ShipConstructor
Project Data
Shipbuilding Model DWGs / NWDs Work station
drawings
xBOM

PLM Deliverable Packages

Feedback loop Build Strategy
Part Viewable
•DWG, PNG, STEP, SAT
Access to Part Viewable
eBOM
supplement
• PNG, JPG, DWF
information

3D Design Review Models

Drawings, EBOMs Production Weight
Production CNC
Planning Management
Design Tasks
3D model with
properties Part information Data Exchange

ShipConstructor SSI Build Sequence

3D CAD/CAM Enterprise Supporting

PWBS/SWBS
Platform Simulation documents
 3D Work
Shipbuilding PLM use cases instructions
3D Navisworks viewables
of ShipConstructor
Project Data MBOMs
Shipbuilding
PLM
MRP/ERP

Geometry & CNC Code

3D Design Review Models Profile

Drawings/EBOMs/CNC Code
cutting
Design Tasks

ShipConstructor SSI Pipe Plate cutting

Enterprise
3D CAD/CAM Bending and marking
Platform
Green material management

Engineering
Dimension
Engineering Green
Dimension Material
Dimension
Shipbuilding PLM Manufacturing
3D CAD/CAM
Engineering Green
Dimension Material
Dimension
ERP: Purchasing / Stock
Automated Change Management

Shipbuilding PLM
Create change order (ECO)
WIP visibility to Create Tasks in ShipConstructor
Engineering to update design
Management

Generate 3D “Delta” of visualization of

design changes
red - deleted, green - new, blue - modified
 3D Planning
Shipbuilding PLM Properties Grid Outfitting planning within a configuration managed Navisworks 3D
model, with visualization and editing of Shipbuilding PLM planning
attributes.
 Aras Innovator: an adaptive PLM platform for continuous
technology adoption and process improvement.
Systems

Software

Electrical/Electronic

Mechanical
Lifecycle
Digital Visualization
Robotics

Big Data / IoT

Technology
 Thank you
bruno.benevolo@arcosinnovations.com