About us

In naval engineering processes, around 80-90% of the total project costs are defined and set during the early design phase. The actual costs, however, occur in later phases, such as production. Any errors made in the early ship design phase, if only small, are expensive or extremely difficult to be addressed later on and involve a great risk of turning a profitable project into a losing one. It’s self-evident that it’s incredibly important to optimize the early design phase to prevent such mistakes.

Unfortunately, currently used ship building tools and software lack a crucial element to ensure such an optimization: effortless consistency. Instead, decentralized information storage and management makes it hard to guarantee that everyone is provided with the latest and correct information. On top of that, multiple stakeholders, from design to production, from suppliers to contractors, call for a high coordination effort to keep all that information constantly up to date and synchronized.

This is where Naval Architect comes into play: We’d like to wave goodbye to outdated ship design software and instead provide a cloud platform that brings together the various stakeholders of shipbuilding projects to collaborate on a central ship information model. We want to ensure that getting the right information to the right people at the right time is easy, effortless, and precise.

Our next-generation software for ship design aims to minimize the risks for time delay and planning errors in shipbuilding projects. The browser-based web platform allows for its users to collectively work on a digital representation of the ship – always with access to the latest design information, ship properties and characteristics. At Naval Architect, we combine ship design, information and change management in a single shipbuilding software.