Plexus mentioned in Marine Technology Magazine
This month's Marine Technology magazine (a publication of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers) has an article (pages 44-50) on how the US Navy and NATO have been using Plexus, the Interdependent Systems Management solution I helped develop into a company. I'm proud of the work we're doing there. We've been helping them with the engineering of the ship development process, and as the article says:
Why engineer the ship development process? The short answer is labour and leverage. Consider that approximately $12 billion of the navy's annual ship material budget is spent on white-collar processes, mostly engineering. Modest process improvements can result in significant cost savings without reducing ship capability.
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We have had good experience with ... Plexus in work associated with the (sic: US Navy) Ship Design Process workshop series and a NATO team investigating tools and methods for cost, performance, and configuration tradeoffs at the earliest stages of ship design.
Now what should we spend the savings on?