COMPIT: Gaps in the digital process chains
COMPIT is a globally recognized conference on computer applications and information technology in shipbuilding and serves as a meeting place for experts from shipyards, ship design offices, classification societies, universities and software companies.
This year, the 23rd COMPIT conference was held at a former monastery just outside of Siena. On the first day, many of the presentations dealt with the topic of AI. The main aim here is to use large language models (LLM) to identify information and relationships in unstructured data such as specifications. This information can then be used to find content errors in various documents.
The second day of the conference was dominated by the topics OCX and CAD. Many participants in the OCX Implementor Forum were on site and presented the current status of their development. Numerous classification societies and software vendors have reached a level of development with which they can work productively. The industry, however, is still somewhat reluctant when it comes to passing digital models on to classification societies. Luckily, this applies to a lesser extent to the second software solution, which was presented by Joanna Sieranski from PROSTEP. The integration between NAPA Steel and REVIT allows the steel design to be transferred as a native REVIT model, which means that architects and equipment designers can work with the correct reference data. As the solution is primarily used within a single shipyard or between a shipyard and supplier, there is none of the reluctance seen when models are passed on to third parties.