CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
5 December 2012
Implementation Investments
COSCO Extends Partnership with Intergraph®
COSCO Shipyard Group Co., Ltd. (COSCO), a partner to shipping companies and offshore oil service providers, has extended its five-year master agreement with Intergraph®. The agreement strengthens the strategic partnership between COSCO and Intergraph and extends Intergraph's position within China's offshore market.
COSCO has previously delivered numerous offshore projects using SmartMarine® Enterprise. With the greater software productivity, advanced quality designs and a strong, local Intergraph technical support team, COSCO renewed the long-term master agreement to expand applications and increase its competitive edge using the SmartMarine Enterprise solution.
"We have been using Intergraph technology for many years, and we are pleased to extend our long-term strategic relationship with Intergraph," said COSCO officials. "We have achieved great success through the implementation of SmartMarine Enterprise for our engineering projects, and we are confident that SmartMarine Enterprise will continue to deliver tremendous value to our company."
"Since first implementing SmartMarine 3D in 2006, COSCO Shipyard Group has seen significant gains in productivity and quality through the use of our next-generation, rule-driven offshore and shipbuilding design solution," said Gerhard Sallinger, Intergraph Process, Power & Marine president. "Intergraph is a long-standing, trusted partner in China, and we are pleased to see the tremendous success COSCO is having with our solutions."
Welch Sun, general manager of Intergraph Process, Power & Marine in Greater China, said, "Intergraph's talented staff combined with our excellent solutions create more value for our customers. At any time and on any project, Intergraph's technical staff will throw themselves into the implementation of projects to support our customers. We are dedicated to fulfilling Intergraph's 'Rule No. 1': We will never let a customer down."
Intergraph's SmartMarine Enterprise is the advanced, integrated offshore and shipbuilding solution, driving improvements in design efficiency, production schedule, handover, and overall life-cycle cost control for enhanced global competitiveness. Intergraph is a world leader in marine structure design and data management, with SmartMarine Enterprise endorsed and used by the world's leading offshore and marine companies, including the most productive shipyard, the top offshore owner operator, the top fabrication yard, and the top classification society in the world.
SmartMarine 3D is an offshore and shipbuilding design solution, featuring breakthrough engineering technology that is knowledge-based and rule-driven to improve delivery schedules, with increased detail and manufacturing design productivity of up to 30 percent. SmartMarine 3D is endorsed and used by leading offshore and marine companies globally. To learn more about SmartMarine 3D's capabilities for the offshore market, visit www.intergraph.com/go/offshore.
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