Damen Naval is not a small fish in the industry. It is the dedicated marine shipbuilding industry of the Damen Shipyard Group, which brings together all the group's marine activities. The Dutch company group has 35 shipyards globally and 12,000 employees. When it comes to product development, the group has been working for some time in Dassault's 3DEXPERIENCE environment. But as always when it comes to complex PLM projects like this, it has not been an easy journey. In this case, the 3DEXPERIENCE solutions were booked in 2016 (published in 2017), but do not seem to have started being implemented more extensively until 2020—and then only in specific projects in divisions other than the big Damen Naval, like Damen’s Yachting division.
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