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All this leads to a lack of generally accepted standards which in turn leads to a fragmented development of software
solutions by software providers which in turn leads to inefficient and ineffective digital information exchange
in the shipbuilding processes.
2.10 Policy Issues
Based on research into e-Business by the EC 1 and moreover supported and emphasised by the outcome of workshops
with European shipbuilding industry the basic problem areas for digital information exchange are:
Design and Engineering:
• 3D drawings
• exchange data.
BioHealth
Procurement:
• supplier component data
• technical specifications.
With this focus in EUROMIND an inventory was made on the most promising solutions (see chapter 3) on the basis
of which good practices can be advised (see chapter 5) for practical use in the European shipbuilding industry.
Besides these more technical oriented, basic problem areas some underlying problems in the European shipbuilding
industry have to be tackled in order to become applicable, acceptable and workable solutions. The underlying
problem areas identified by EUROMIND are lack of awareness, lack of knowledge, lack of concerted, pan-European
action, lack of funding for standard development and introduction, lack of transition mechanisms from in-house
“standards” to real open standards (in view of the risk of losing valuable experience/historical data).
1 The European e-Business Report 2006/07 edition: A portrait of e-business in 10 sectors of the EU economy, 5 th Synthesis Report of the e-Business W@tch
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