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Tribon M3 product in 2004, an evolution that we explore briefly below.
Tribon M3 - that was then, this is now Tribon was the number one marine technology provider at the time of
its
acquisition. It added a heavyweight marine capability to Aveva’s (at that time) largely plant-focused design technology. Over time, it underwent integration with the strengths of the existing Aveva technology approach. Te resulting suite of integrated solutions for marine design and shipbuilding (Aveva Marine) fully addresses the user requirements discussed above, and so now provides far richer functionality and opportunities than its Tribon predecessor. However, Tribon had an established
customer base, and so a programme of migration was always going to be a real necessity. Bruce Douglas, a former Tribon senior manager who presided over the acquisition, explained that migration is oſten
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an uncertain process. “Tere is a very robust and straightforward migration route available for current Tribon customers, and there is absolutely no doubt that what they will get at the end of it significantly outperforms what they are using at the moment. But, it’s change, and change can be difficult, so our customers need to be mindful that we are here to help.” Yet history speaks for itself. Ships have been
turned out in their millions without anything like the degree of design and information management that is now available. Must the industry invest
in more advanced
technological integration, or can it, in these economically straitened times, simply survive doing things the way it always has done? According to David Thomson, marine consultant at Aveva, economics is precisely the issue: “Historically, the technology that supports shipbuilding has only ever been partially integrated. The rest was stitched together by manual effort, and this led to lots of errors and rework. Ships still got built – they always will – but oſten it took as much
money as water to float them!” It’s a rather powerful image of waste and inefficiency. In conclusion, we must remain
balanced. Technology is not the answer to everything. At the beginning of this piece, we asked “what lies beneath,” and it’s true that 3D design technology is now capable of acting as the upper layer of a much more extensive and integrated shipbuilding information management universe than was ever previously the case. But, there will never be any substitute for skilled and dedicated personnel, or for canny management who use experience, judgement and instinct to understand when it’s time to bite the bullet on change, and move to something better. As Mr Douglas concludes: “Migration from one technology to another involves inevitable upheaval. We couldn’t credibly propose it if we weren’t absolutely sure that that what the customers are moving to is significantly better than what they have come from.” NA
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