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www.marinelink.com 43 all these geographically-dispersed part- ners.” • Increased use of 3-D software, which traditionally is used more in prod- uct design, than in the earlier stages of the design. “This is important because the most important decisions in design are made at the earliest stage where you are defi ning all the main parts of the ship.” All the decisions you make at that stage have consequences,” said de Gón- gora.

SSI

Sener won’t get any argument from

SSI, which is a big proponent of 3-D software and any form of communica- tion that leads to better design decisions made earlier in the process. In an April blog post, CEO Larkins crowned com- munications as “the most signifi cant contributing factor to the success of ship yards.” By which he means all the steps involved in the effective creation, sharing, dissemination and management consumption of information. “The ship- yards who are good at determining not only how and when information will be shared, but also where, why and with who . . . are more effective and more suc- cessful,” he explained.

In fact, SSI, formerly known as Ship-

Constructor Software Inc., is all about three things: • Proudly Open Architecture. Notes

CTO Denis Morais in a July post, “I love the idea of keeping ShipConstruc- tor 100% purely open and competing with our competitors solely on benefi t to the users. There is not a single piece of information that ShipConstructor hold hostage in a proprietary format.’’ SSI walks the walk on Open Architecture with its membership and participation in programs and study projects at the

US National Shipbuilding Research Pro- gram (NSRP), The Autodesk Developer

Network, Autodesk University, VIATeC,

SNAME and RINA. • Fostering better communication, collaboration, and information fl ows, as early and frequently as possible, with its customers, and between the various

José Manuel de Sendagorta, son of the founder, and Jaime Torroja, then GM of SENER Marine, present- ing to the press at the 1965 launch of the FORAN System (an acronym in Spanish for FORmas ANalíti- cas, or Analytical Shapes), a CAD/CAE/CAM software package for designing and building ships.1965 (Cr edit: SENER ar chives) (Cr edit: © SENER Ingeniería y Sistemas, S.A.)

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Cross-section of piping system showing stair well (and potential interfer- ences) locations.

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