Decades of maritime expertise. One global team shaping the future of digital navigation.
From the very beginning, Teledyne SevenCs has helped shape the foundations of modern digital navigation. As co-originators of the IHO S-52 and S-57 standards, our founders played a defining role in establishing type‑approved electronic charting, setting the benchmark the industry still follows today.
This spirit of innovation continues through a series of industry firsts, including enabling the first OEM-integrated ECDIS SDK, developing advanced ENC validation tools, and creating web-based solutions for professional chart delivery across defence and commercial applications.
Behind these achievements is our team of dedicated maritime experts, engineers, and innovators who continue to advance charting and navigation technology. Together, our heritage and our people drive the trusted solutions relied on by professionals worldwide.
Teledyne SevenCs has a long and proud history of participation in development of standards and of innovation regarding chart display, production and navigation software.
| Year | Milestone |
| 1992 | SevenCs established. |
| 1995 | First major OEM supply contract. |
| 1996 | First generation of ENC Tools launched. |
| 1998 | First official ENCs produced using ENC Tools. |
| 1999 | First official type-approval of SevenCs SENC format. |
| 2000 | First generation of ORCA professional navigation software released. |
| 2002 | Incorporation of ChartWorld GmbH, our digital chart agent subsidiary. |
| 2003 | First generation of CEACT inland navigation software released. |
| 2005 | UKHO acquires SevenCs and ChartWorld. |
| 2008 | HydroTeam alliance with Atlis and L3-Nautronix. |
| 2011 | Dutch Belgian Trading acquire SevenCs and ChartWorld. |
| 2014 | Type-approval of the world’s first true touchscreen ECDIS, developed by 7Cs. |
| 2015 | ORCA Pilot G2 becomes the world's first type-approved Portable Pilot Unit (PPU). |
| 2017 | Release of S-100-supporting SDK for maritime applications - Nautilus ECDIS Kernel. |
| 2023 | Acquisition of ChartWorld International (parent company of SevenCs) by Teledyne Technologies, integrating SevenCs into Teledyne's maritime portfolio alongside Raymarine and Teledyne CARIS. |
| 2024 | Release of Nautilus 1.8 — the latest evolution of the maritime Software Development Kit, delivering S-100-ready chart display for OEMs and system integrators. |
| 2025 | Active participation in the transition to S-100 next-generation hydrographic data standards, showcasing integrated S-100 production, validation, and navigation capabilities at international maritime events including the IHO Assembly. |
| 2026 | SevenCs and Teledyne CARIS strengthen their cooperation by handing over the sales, support, and management of 7Cs' S-100 ENC Tools products to CARIS to streamline service delivery and enhance customer support. The IP and the development of these products will remain with SevenCs. |
Director Product Management – Voyage Solutions
My first port of call was studying Nautical Science in Bremen from 2007-2012, before gaining experience at sea on cruise vessels and oil tankers.
After joining SevenCs in 2017, I quickly moved into product management. The biggest sense of achievement during my time here has come from shaping a product, moving it forward and developing it over time.
I enjoy working with highly competent and motivated customers and colleagues. It’s always great to see people go the extra mile to provide help and practical support.
Making seafarers’ lives safer and helping to make their work more satisfying and engaging is personal to me. Having done what they do, it’s not just about my professional role.
I'm especially motivated by the opportunity to make modern voyage planning more dynamic and proactive for mariners, as well as everyone else in the industry.
Product Manager – ChartWorld Engineering
My first experience with SevenCs was back in 1995, when I worked on digitizing paper charts as a student during a Hydrography placement. After joining SevenCs soon after, I produced a wide range of customized electronic charts, including for a cruise ship company navigating German inland waterways.
I moved into a Product Manager role, first for ENC Tools, and then for EC2007, SevenCs’ original SDK (Software Development Kit). I later became the Product Manager for WMS Chart Server and then its Hosting Service. This involved managing a pioneering progression in navigation charting, driven by the defence sector. Customers moved from their own applications (using the EC2007 SDK) to the WMS Chart Server, or, where suitable, to SevenCs’ Hosting Service. Once developed and refined, this approach was successfully adapted to meet the needs of other customers.
The technical consulting aspect of the job has always been especially rewarding, specifically crafting customer specific solutions that best meets each client’s need.
Over the years, working as part of a team to drive this innovation has been the part of the job I’ve enjoyed most.
Team Lead – Route Network Data
The sea first worked its magic on me when I sailed to the Netherlands as a boy. Turning a passion into a profession, I trained in Nautical Science in Bremen and qualified as a Master Mariner, later spending several years as a Navigation Officer on cargo vessels.
Upon joining SevenCs in 2019, one of the most appealing aspects was the opportunity to help solve the very challenges that I had faced as a mariner. Today, those experiences from my time at sea remain invaluable, both in my roles as Team Lead of Route Network Data, and in conversations with customers, including those without a maritime background.
My hope is that we continue to grow Route Network to help support our customers' success, as well as providing the foundation for reliable, safe navigation at all times around the world.
Director Product Management – SevenCs
Andy brings a hands-on background to the industry side of the business, and that grounding shapes everything he does at SevenCs. He stays close to the environment his products operate in, taking an active part in sea trials for navigation systems rather than shying away and staying behind a desk.
Since joining the team, Andy has built a reputation for understanding what integrators actually need from a charting SDK, the practical demands of building it into a working product rather than what simply looks good on a spec sheet. He thrives on the technical side of the conversation and gets genuine satisfaction from ensuring our products match what the customer actually requires.
That work extends well beyond any single product line. Andy collaborates closely with OEMs and system integrators across the marine sector, and operates at the standardisation level where the performance requirements for navigation equipment are actually written. He sits on the board of CIRM and holds the Convenorship of IEC TC80 MT7, responsible for ECDIS (IEC 61174), and MT21, responsible for Radar (IEC 62388), roles that put him at the centre of driving collaboration across the industry and shaping the standards the whole sector builds to.
Andy brings a no-nonsense approach to every project, and he's at his best when the challenges are complex and the stakes are high.
For Andy, it's simple: better charting underpins safer, more efficient navigation, and that's always worth getting right.
Product Manager – SevenCs
My first contact with the marine world started after my professional career as scientific project manager at the federal Hydrographic Service of Germany in 2016. Shortly afterwards I joined SevenCs as a data manager quickly diving into the world of standards, data formats and data handling. I moved to product management quickly in 2018 to drive the development of the ENC production tools as well as the Chart distribution. While shaping theses products pathways aside with the solving of complex problems was a daily driver for me , as well as the customers satisfaction achieved with the afford of my Teams and me.
After gaining knowledge in the port construction consultancy business, I rejoined SevenCs in 2024 as the Product manager for the core product Nautilus. My Team and me keeping the product compliant with the lates standard development but also with prototyping to foster SevenCs role on forefront of marine business, dealing with a broad variety of request from internal and customers sides and with a strong focus on quality and robust performance.
With my background in Geoinformatics I’m especially motivated to bring IHO S-100 as well as other data products to life within the development of the Nautilus SDK to ensure safe and reliable Navigation in the future