Integrating the Marine Enterprise

This paper describes solutions for the marine industry consisting of one or more products from an integrated suite of tools, in conjunction with a number of third-party tools integrated into the platform. It will outline production proven methodologies for implementing effective data exchange and integration between Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP), engineering and design, and production systems. The author will also present an overview of the components of an enterprise solution and discuss the application of this technology to the focus area of material management in the context of structural piece-part nesting. It also says about Intergraph's SmartMarine Enterprise application, SmartPlant Foundation, includes a workflow engine.