CAD/CAM and ERP are the two pillars of any shipbuilding enterprise, determining and documenting what needs to be built, and ensuring the materials and human resources are available at the right time to build it. However, they are often implemented as stand-alone vertical applications, primarily designed to serve their respective departments of engineering and project management.

Shipyard IT departments struggle to integrate common information and ensure the consistent transfer of material and planning information between these two applications.

Poorly integrated information results in the need to re-enter data and ultimately leads to designers, production workers and project managers having to interpret large volumes of information from their respective colleagues; this, in the worst cases, leads to rework and its associated costs.

Lack of visibility of project status, increasing risk and control of ROI, and ultimately leading to uninformed decision making and reduced responsiveness to changes.