Digital transformation of requirements in the industry 4.0: case of naval platforms

Abstract

• Complex projects need to face the challenges of the future, 
implementing solutions to improve the value chain and 
establish a differentiating competitive advantage in the 
framework of the “fourth industrial revolution”. Integration 
of information and communication technologies (ICT) in 
production processes, incorporating innovative digital 
technologies, allows to develop in organizations a vision that 
covers strategies implementation to achieve excellence.
Thanks to the “Connected Industry 4.0” initiative, trying to 
increase added value and qualified employment in industrial 
sectors, favour the future industry model and improve 
competitiveness to boost exports, Navantia, a Spanish 
public company dedicated to civil and military shipbuilding, 
promotes a digital transformation plan, which aims to 
consolidate it around the concept of “Shipyard 4.0”, essential 
for its sustainability. Requirements digitization, automation, 
exploitation and integration of complex projects, as naval 
platforms, is a differential “lock lever” to make it possible and 
place it at an advantage against current globalization and 
allows it to face with greater guarantees next milestones.
Improvement of results in three Navantia complex projects of 
naval platforms (developed in the productive center of the San 
Fernando shipyard), in terms of digital maturity is conclusive, 
thanks to a requirements management model implementation, 
exportable to other types of projects in the shipbuilding sector 
and industrial sectors, in the context of Industry 4.0.
• Keywords: Industry 4.0, requirements management, digital 
transformation, digitization, automation, naval platforms.