CRIST S.A – Shipyard Inspection Process Digitalisation

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    CRIST is a leading European shipyard specializing in ship and marine construction located on the coast of Poland. Initially, CRIST Shipyard's expertise centered on the construction and repair of a diverse range of maritime vessels, including ships, fishing boats, and specialized Ro-Ro units. However, the company's strategic acquisition of the former Gdynia Shipyard premises in 2009 marked a pivotal turning point, propelling CRIST into the realm of offshore construction, specialized coastal infrastructure, and ships supporting marine resource extraction.

    Author Ambientia

    CRIST is proud of its innovative and high-quality work, and quality processes have been meticulously managed for years, but the utilised tools have not been quite optimal for cost-effective and transparent teamwork. This is the main purpose Ambientia and CRIST initiated cooperation during autumn 2025 – aiming to digitalise the core quality processes and enable more effective work within the shipyard – and also with the various external stakeholders.

    The main business aim of the project was to gain a transparent and continuously updated status of quality inspections and remarks.

    In our first cooperational project we have implemented a digital inspection process (based on a digital workflows platform Ambientia has extensive previous experience from several shipyards) that includes:

    • Quality process including three inspection types and related remarks
    • Inspections include signature phase in which inspections are signed by Owner, Class or Yard or combinations of these depending on criticality of the inspection
    • AI features of the platform were utilised to enable the needed language translations between English and Polish
    • Automation features of the platform were utilised extensively to make the workflow of work items effective (changes taking place depenging on time, signatures and work item statuses)
    • Invitations to inspections and summaries after inspections, coming inspections and open remarks are sent automatically to relevant stakeholders.
    • External stakeholders are also kept up-to-date with automated notifications about the workflow.

    “Cooperation with Ambientia is as should be – Ambientia understands needs and all the time adjust to Shipyard requirements.” - Łukasz Topa, Projects Execution Director 

    During the first digital process implementation we have also created a robust basis for future development steps. We have taken into use a modern cloud platform which can be cost-effectively configured (and integrated if needed) according to customer’s processes. Ambientia has extensive experience from digitalization of various industrial operational process – shipyards being one of our key competence areas.

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