Data Governance & Integration

• PLM & ERP Integration – Unify EBOM and MBOM for improved procurement and manufacturing.

• Master Data Management (MDM) – Standardize Part Classifications and ensure interoperability.

• Centralized Data Management System – Implement an integrated platform to manage large data volumes, ensure accuracy, and facilitate collaboration.

• Industry 5.0 Integration – Enable human-centric knowledge management and AI-driven design elements to optimize the shipbuilding process.

Smart Supply Chain & Inventory Optimization

• Predictive Inventory Demand Planning – Reduce procurement lead times and optimize material usage.

• IoT-Enabled Supply Chain Visibility – Real-time tracking of ship components. (BETA*)

  Data Solution for Nesting Optimization Solutions – Enhance material utilization and minimize waste.

• Interoperability for Seamless Data Transfer – Ensure compatibility with industry standards such as ISO15926, STEP, and OCX format conversion.

• Data for Collaboration Software for Shipbuilding Teams – Facilitate seamless teamwork between design, production, and procurement teams. (BETA*)

Data Ingestion to Cloud for Marine Data Analytics

• Leverage cloud computing and edge technology to enhance real-time decision-making in shipbuilding.

  • Cloud-based Shipyard Data Platform – Centralized data repository for design, manufacturing, and operational insights.

  • Edge AI for Shipyard Operations – Real-time processing of sensor data for improved efficiency. (BETA*)

  • Prepare and move data from legacy to Cloud – Build pipelines and transformations using medallion architecture. Experience working with AWS, Microsoft Azure, Databricks and Snowflake.

  • Universal Data Model – Develop a scalable, standardized data framework suitable for various ship types and projects.

Support ESG & Compliance for Maritime Operations

• Data for ESG reporting , initiatives (Sustainability and Climate) and Regulatory Compliance Automation – AI-driven compliance tracking for classification societies and environmental policies.

• Data Security & Integrity – Address challenges in data protection, access control, and long-term preservation of shipbuilding records.

AI-Driven Predictive Analytics & Digital Twin Solutions (BETA*)

• AI-powered Defect Detection – Identify anomalies in design and production.

• Predictive Maintenance – AI-driven condition-based monitoring for ship components.

• Digital Twin Implementation – Create real-time virtual replicas of vessels for lifecycle management.

• Big Data Analytics – Harness large-scale shipbuilding data for performance optimization and cost reduction.

• AI-Driven Design Automation – Reduce engineering time by accelerating ship design cycles and enhancing production efficiency.

Solving Shipbuilding’s Biggest Data Challenges with AI & Smart Integration

Embrace a new era in shipbuilding with AI-driven solutions that seamlessly integrate design, production, and operational data. Harness cutting-edge PLM/ERP and digital twin technologies to empower predictive maintenance and real-time insights. Chart your course towards sustainable, efficient, and innovative maritime excellence with our state-of-the-art IT framework.

Top 5 Data Challenges in Shipbuilding & How We Solve Them

1. Breaking Down Data Silos & Fragmented Systems

The Challenge:
Shipyards operate multiple disconnected systems—PLM, ERP, CAD, and ILS—leading to inefficiencies, duplicate data, and misalignment across departments.

Our Solution:
Our unique approach to handling data integration platform creates a unified data ecosystem, seamlessly connecting PLM, ERP, and ILS systems. This ensures a single source of truth for all shipbuilding operations, reducing errors, improving collaboration, and accelerating project timelines. We are building Agentic AI libraries to bring productivity gains.

2. Strengthening Data Governance & Regulatory Compliance

The Challenge:
Inconsistent data governance creates compliance risks, impacting sustainability goals and regulatory adherence to standards like IMO, MARPOL, and ISO15926.

Our Solution:
We implement a comprehensive Enterprise Data Governance Framework using tools like MS Purview, Informatica which help clients with :
✔ Automated compliance tracking (IMO, MARPOL, ISO15926)
✔ Single source of truth, avoid generation of bad data
✔ Reuse data sets for future ship building activities (Class of Vessels) and Data Monetization.

3. Streamlining Data for Design-to-Production Workflow

The Challenge:
Misalignment between Engineering Bill of Materials (EBOM) and Manufacturing Bill of Materials (MBOM) results in costly production delays and inefficiencies.

Our Solution:
Our unique approach to Data Management and Data Architecture ensures EBOM-MBOM synchronization which ensures seamless updates to manufacturing workflows whenever design changes occur. This reduces engineering time by significantly and minimizes production disruptions, and enhances manufacturing efficiency.

4. Enhancing Cybersecurity to Protect Critical Shipbuilding Data

The Challenge:
Shipyards are vulnerable to cyber threats, data breaches, and IT infrastructure vulnerabilities, posing risks to critical operations.

Our Solution:

Secure-by-Design Data Architectures

• We build enterprise-grade data ecosystems tailored for complex shipyard environments, integrating proprietary systems and leading platforms like AWS, Azure, Databricks, and Snowflake. Our experience ensures that only secure, high-integrity data is made available for critical operations—something that requires both technical depth and domain familiarity.

• Operationalized Data Governance to Strengthen Cyber Posture
  By embedding tools like Microsoft Purview into day-to-day operations, we help organizations govern sensitive data with precision—tracking lineage, enforcing access policies, and supporting compliance. This approach doesn’t just check a box; it actively reduces cyber risk exposure across the data lifecycle.

• Collaborative Approach with Cybersecurity Teams
  We partner closely with cybersecurity teams to ensure secure and context-aware data provisioning. Our ability to navigate both IT and OT landscapes means we can enable secure access to operational insights without compromising on control—an area where real-world experience makes all the difference.

5. Leveraging AI & Predictive Analytics for Shipyard Optimization

Foundational Data + Domain-Aligned AI = Scalable Shipyard Intelligence

• Unify Fragmented Data Across the Ship Lifecycle
  Establish a connected data foundation across PLM, Cadmatic, Nesting, ERP, and ILS systems — ensuring consistent, contextualized, and trusted information from design to decommission.

• Enable Design-Production Continuity through Data Modeling
  Leverage graph-based or semantic data models to mirror ship lifecycle flows — allowing AI to reason across design, production, and logistics stages without losing domain fidelity.

• Automate Compliance and ESG Data Pipelines
  Build AI-driven data pipelines that surface regulatory, sustainability, and classification insights directly from operational data — reducing manual effort and improving audit-readiness.

• Accelerate Digital Twin Development with Smart Integration
  Support shipyard digital twins by providing integrated, real-time-ready data frameworks — enabling downstream AI use cases like energy optimization, throughput analytics, and scenario simulation.

• Trustworthy AI Starts with Shipbuilding Context
  Embed shipyard semantics into AI models — moving beyond generic ML by training on well-labeled, context-rich data that reflects hull structures, equipment hierarchies, and modular assembly logic.

• Build Decision Cockpits, Not Dashboards
  Shift from passive BI to actionable, AI-enhanced decision platforms — surfacing operational trade-offs (cost, lead time, material use) dynamically for planners and engineers.

• Reduce Rework Through AI-Powered Design-to-Production Feedback Loops
  Detect and prevent data disconnects between design specs and production realities using anomaly detection and alignment checks across systems.

• Start with Data Governance, Scale with AI
  Lay the groundwork with robust data quality, lineage, and access controls — ensuring AI initiatives don’t falter due to mismatched or misunderstood information.

By addressing these challenges, AGNC Tech Solutions is uniquely positioned to transform the shipbuilding landscape with innovative, AI-powered IT solutions—ensuring your shipyards operate at peak efficiency, are rigorously compliant, and primed for the future.

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