What should shipbuilding expect trom the CAD/CAM systems of the future?

Benayas-Ayuso and Fernandez discusses that as shipyards and engineering offices embrace the Industry 4.0 revolution, its important to select CAD/CAM/CAE systems with certain key attributes. The Industry 4.0 revolution covers a vast array of interconnected and interlaced technologies, each of which is a unique discipline, but should be implemented as a whole integrated development in each industrial field. This is particularly so for Computer Aided Design, Manufacturing and Engineering (CAD/CAM/CAE) systems. To smoothly perform all this computing requires a network that supports different connections for special devices (Internet of things - loT) that can access the data, creating and modifying it into a new layer that enhances the basic information layer created by the shipyards CAD system. To help integrate the production process into the design phase, the CAD System must be oriented to be fed by sensors in the shipyard environment.