Multi User Concurrent Access to the Product Information Model

This improves the user access to all information associated with a whole project. The data in the Product Information Model can be created and updated by many designers and production engineers working both in parallel within technical disciplines and across disciplines. Hull and outfitting designers, for example, can therefore work together in a concurrent manner. The use of a common database means that design development progress and design changes are instantly accessible to all designers. Information can easily be extracted across a whole project by various alternative selection criteria, for example, by block, by system, by location,