NX Manufacturing
Modern Machine Shop features how Willis Custom Yachts achieves 5X productivity with Siemens NX CAD/CAM
July 17, 2026
Modern Machine Shop, one of the manufacturing industry's leading publications, how a luxury custom-yacht building company, Willis Custom Yachts, designs and builds custom luxury sportfishing yachts with Siemens NX CAD/CAM software. Because each yacht is uniquely designed, the company must manage constant design updates and highly complex parts throughout the manufacturing process. Their legacy CAD and CAM systems operated independently, creating communication gaps that increased programming time, rework, and the risk of costly errors.