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Marine engineering and shipbuilding

Today’s shipyards and vessels are more sustainable, interconnected and technologically complex. In a historically customized, manual industry, leaders must chart new ways forward. Digital shipyards can help launch business ahead with connected design, engineering, manufacturing and operations.

Overcome industry challenges with digitalization

The marine industry is undergoing transformation. Even as vessels become more advanced and interconnected, the industry is behind in innovation and digitalization. Companies should strive to connect design, engineering and manufacturing in a seamless environment.

Accelerate time-to-market at lower costs

Streamline ship design and construction to launch innovative designs faster. Meet performance targets with on-time, on-budget delivery — and achieve fuel efficiency and cost savings in the process.

Break through silos and manual processes

Unify operations and eliminate waste with an open, connected digital environment. Unlock new efficiencies across design, engineering, manufacturing and operations.

Manage and integrate complex data

Gain clear insights across the shipbuilding process with a connected, centralized data system. Unify and visualize massive data sets, informing advances in engineering, manufacturing and logistics.

Reach goals and reduce impact

Develop innovative, energy-saving vessels with digital solutions and simulations. Discover new ways to achieve fuel efficiency and reduce CO2 emissions — and raise industry standards with sustainable ships and shipyards.

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Explore solutions for the entire value chain

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Ship design and engineering

Streamline the ship design process to deliver innovative designs that satisfy customer requirements and meet performance targets. Keep projects on time and on budget.

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Ship construction

Make the shift to a digital shipyard to maximize efficiency on the construction floor by integrating engineering, manufacturing and logistics.

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Ship lifecycle management

Effectively execute shipbuilding projects by implementing a connected, centralized data system that supports each stage of the shipbuilding process and ship lifecycle.

Siemens & NVIDIA: Industrial Metaverse for Shipbuilding

Siemens and NVIDIA are integrating NVIDIA Omniverse into Teamcenter X, creating photoreal, physics-based Digital Twins for shipbuilding. This partnership helps shipbuilders accelerate sustainable ship development by unifying and visualizing massive engineering data. The technology helps eliminate waste and errors, bringing vessels to market faster.

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While Siemens offers extensive products, solutions and services, a core part of our model is to work closely with trusted partners. Our partners augment what we offer so you always have a reliable solution available.

Lets advance manufacturing - by empowering the ecosystem to design, produce and use additive applications across industries.

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