Transforming Project Management in Shipbuilding
Aquila is a secure, cloud-based platform that streamlines communication and document management across ship design, construction, refits, and conversions—enabling project teams to collaborate efficiently and stay focused on quality and execution.
Manage shipbuilding projects—from minor refits to full new builds—in one powerful, cloud-based system.
Reduce administrative workload with fewer emails and more visibility across the projects.
Aquila organizes and displays all global projects and vast amounts of documentation in a structured way. It provides efficient resolution of comments and issues, as well as keeping track of revisions, conversations and follow-up comments.
Cloud-based solution allows global, secure access to all of your vessel drawings and documents in one centralized place, and let teams situated in offices across the world to collaborate closely. Also save physical storage space as well!
Project documents are stored and accessible over a long period for your documentation retention policy, and can be made available for operation and maintenance of the vessel going forward.
“Aquila minimizes back-and-forth emails and attachments by streamlining communication within a single platform. It enables close collaboration across teams and accelerates issue resolution throughout the project.”
— Octavian Jipa, Plan Approval & Engineering, Seaspan Ship Management
Features
Plan Approval
Aquila provides a quick status update and filters to quickly find your daily to-do’s. In a drawing, you can issue comments and view related conversation, as well as have internal discussion for collaboration within the organization. Export plans to excel and PDF for external use.
FAT, NCR, Inspection
In all these modules you can view and track status of your tests and report, issue comments, have internal discussion, and export to PDF. Additionally for Inspection, Aquila provides two level sign-off to make sure tests are done correctly.
“Aquila streamlines drawing review between Owner and Shipyard by combining database, communication, and tracking tools. It supports open collaboration across large, distributed teams while giving Project Managers full control over comment consolidation and release”
— Dan Riis, Director of Fleet Engineering , BC Ferries
Final Drawings, Documents
Store all of your ships drawings and other relevant documents in the cloud, upload revisions and leave comments so it's always up to date. Final Drawings are ordered by project and vessels, you can also tag folders and search/filter documents. Final drawings also allows you to retain drawing passwords.
Schedule, Dashboard
Quickly see upcoming events and keep a log of changes in dates. You can also create custom events against your vessels to keep track of major milestones, build events, and inspections.
“"Aquila centralizes tens of thousands of drawings, comments, inspections, and project documents—securely managed and easily accessible through a permissions system controlled by the project managers”
— JJ Meyer
Senior Vice President, Assets and Technology
Seaspan Ship Management