Process innovation for shipbuilder STX

STX Shipbuilding plans to challenge the top tier of global ship builders by using Dassault Systèmes’ ENOVIA PLM solution to deploy its process innovation (PI) project, across all three of its production bases: Jinhae Shipyard in Korea, Dalian Shipyard in China, and the recently acquired Aker Yards in Norway, which is recognised as the leading cruise ship manufacturer. ENOVIA integrates with Microsoft Office and with other applications via Web services developed with .NET.
This is the first of its kind in the ship building industry. With the construction of each ship often incorporating more than 120,000 disparate data files, STX’s PI process focuses on promoting greater collaboration and best practices between key internal functions (inventory, production, quality control and accounting) and external suppliers. This approach ensures that any change requests can be easily incorporated into the final data. This has helped to reduce the number of errors and ultimately improved the average project completion time by 15 per cent.
“The deployment of ENOVIA’s PLM solution, enables us to operate more efficiently by standardising key business processes, enabling greater collaboration and creating a feedback mechanism to spur innovation," said Hyo-Gwan Leem, senior vice president of STX Shipbuilding. "Through the PI project, we expect that costs will be reduced by more than $100 billion over the next five years, which will ultimately serve to increase value of the company".