On August 28, 2014, the Huazhong University of Science and Technology HUST-Siemens Digital Industries Software Joint Laboratory for Digital Shipbuilding was officially unveiled at the institution’s School of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering (NAOE), and Siemens Digital Industries Software gave the school product lifecycle management (PLM) software. As the first laboratory dedicated to the shipbuilding profession built jointly by Siemens Digital Industries Software and a Chinese university, the goal was to cultivate talent for digital shipbuilding, collaboratively develop localized shipbuilding software and expand the industry-university-research cooperation model.