Abstract 

Advanced information technology is nowadays commonly available and, more to the point, taken-for-granted and used all the time by virtually everyone in all aspects of our normal lives, transparently and mostly unknowingly. “Domotics” were implemented years before Big-Data and IoT became fashionable terms in the marine industry. Smart technologies and advanced sensorial robotics became common place in factories while in our world battalions of 3-axis cutting machines, flat panel lines and pipe fitting machines, unquestionably innovative when first deployed decades ago, still run alongside just a few modern, multi-axes profile shaper and cutter robots. Advances in hardware manufacturing, software and in information technology area are symbiotic and have blossomed into a self-sustaining evolutionary chain reaction. The marine industry uses only some of the vast wealth of very common and equally advanced technology that permeates our world. The very many factors that continue to sustain this anachronism include a widening generation gap, resistance to change at all levels, misunderstanding of the great opportunities offered by automation that serves people, an inexplicable refusal of simple, agile strategies and solutions, etc.. Making information available to serve all, people and processes, is the conjunctive tissue of the complex organism that is every industry and society. Focus of this study, solutions and answers are readily available, today, off the shelf and out-of-the-box. The technology and strategy adopted by SSI, creators ShipConstructor, is reviewed and case studies are presented.