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DCN has invested over $12 million in PTC's PLM software and services over the past six years. This latest implementation underscores PTC's strength in providing leading PLM solutions to the shipbuilding industry. DCN has standardized on PTC's PLM solutions for the design and production of its surface and submarine vessels as well as for its maintenance, repair & overhaul (MRO) activities. DCN is one of the most advanced shipyards in the world and has been extremely successful in implementing PTC's PLM solutions, making it the first shipyard in Europe to deliver a fully digitally designed frigate. PTC's PLM solutions have led to significant reductions in program costs, while ensuring an improved access, visualization and control over product information. This gives DCN a strategic advantage over its competition. At DCN, PTC's PLM solutions provide a unified source of information for the vessels being designed and built. It gathers all the teams working concurrently on engineering studies and production across the extended enterprise and in geographically dispersed sites around a 3D intelligent digital mock-up of the ship or submarine. It also provides for strict configuration and change management administered by powerful automated workflows. The integrated visualization capabilities allow a wide audience of DCN users to easily leverage the CAD models and drawings managed by the PLM solution. This results in a shortened product design cycle, a higher quality product and lower costs. PTC's PLM solutions have a proven efficiency record in complex engineering industries and are used by world's largest shipyards such as: BAE SYSTEMS, Vosper Thornycroft, Bath Iron Works, Northrop Grumman Ship Systems, and several others. Air and spacecraft manufacturers such as Airbus, EADS-LV and Lockheed Martin also use PTC's PLM solutions. Airbus uses PTC solutions for the A380, and EADS-LV for the Ariane 5 and M51 programs. "DCN's successful implementation of Windchill gives its projects a boost. They are able to efficiently roll up and analyse the massive amounts of data generated from product development process," said Richard Harrison, PTC's president and CEO. "We are proud of our long-standing relationship with DCN, and look forward to finding new ways to help DCN in innovative product creation, real-time design collaboration, and efficient process and data control throughout the lifecycles of its products." "At DCN, we are committed to our strategic initiative of becoming Europe's leading yard for conventional and nuclear surface ships and submarines," said Pierre Quinchon, DCN Director of new vessels constructions. "PTC's PLM solutions have delivered cost reductions which meet or exceed our targets, even for programs which were already started when our PLM project was deployed. Examples include 17% cost reduction for hull and structure production, 70% reduction in piping re-works, 30% reduction of cabling lead- time. The PLM system delivered by PTC has propelled DCN into the 21st century."