DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION OF REQUIREMENTS IN THE INDUSTRY 4.0: CASE OF NAVAL PLATFORMS

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.