CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
6 October 2004
Implementation Investments
Seaway Designs From Bow to Stern Virtually With PLM Solutions From IBM and Dassault Systemes
IBM and Dassault Systèmes announced that Seaway, the world's leading boating design, engineering and tooling company, has chosen their Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions to standardize its PLM platform for managing boat projects from conception to retirement.
Seaway chose IBM PLM Solutions CATIA V5 and SMARTEAM both developed by Dassault Systemes. The company has already completely designed the new Shipman 63, a descendant of the popular Shipman 50, in CATIA V5 and will launch it several months earlier than previously estimated.
With a global workforce of 110, Seaway offers its clients, both major European shipyards and smaller sail and power boat builders, a unique "one-stop shopping" service that includes everything from the initial 3D design stages to the engineering and manufacturing of production ready molds.
To offer this service efficiently, Seaway required an open PLM solution that could manage multiple computer-aided-design (CAD) formats including UGS and related product data. The environment also needed to be flexible enough to modify projects on demand to match the requests of customers and constraints of suppliers.
"One of the characteristics of Seaway is our constant research into new technologies," said Luca Bonetto, manager Design Office, Seaway. "This has enabled us to develop a highly advanced product lifecycle environment ready to meet the ever increasing demands of the shipyards we work with. IBM and Dassault Systèmes are now providing us with the most advanced and flexible software tools on the market."
"Openness and support of industry standards are pillars of Dassault Systèmes' development strategy," said Denis Senpéré, vice-president, PLM Europe, Dassault Systèmes. "Seaway's easy addition of CATIA V5 and SMARTEAM with its existing PLM toolset is proof of the benefits of open solutions that enable companies to better connect, integrate and automate."
Seaway will extend CATIA V5 to all the phases of design including the computer numerical control (CNC) processes. It will leverage SMARTEAM and its customization capabilities to provide a PLM solution that meets the needs of Seaway and its current and potential customers, providing a universal tool for exchanging data and ideas and collaborating with partners all over the world. SMARTEAM will also provide a highly usable graphical interface to customers, facilitating their remote, Internet-based access to relevant drawings and 3D models.
Seaway is the world's leading boat development company, based on the J&J design studio created in 1983 by Jernej and Japec Jakopin. We provide design, engineering and tooling to production sailboat and powerboat builders. Seaway has a unique 110-strong team of international talent in designers, engineers and boatbuilders, a full range of most up-to-date 3D design, engineering, CAD/CAM, 5-axes milling and boatbuilding software and hardware joined to experience and tradition with production boatbuilders worldwide. In the past 20 years we served 34 production boatbuilders from 17 countries. We created over 170 projects that gave life to more than 34000 sailboat and powerboats and yachts. Our projects received 20 Boat of the Year Awards in EU, Germany, France, UK and USA. A range of components for the sailboat and powerboat industry is designed and manufactured in the Components division. We are currently world's largest producer of sailboat rudders with bearings. More information about Seaway and its services can be found at http://www.seaway.si
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