Marine Industry. Keppel Offshore & Marine. Grenland Group. Samsung Heavy Industries. Martec Ltd. Vietsovpetro. A Special Focus of

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1 A publicatio of Itergraph Process, Power & Marie 2009 Marie Idustry A Special Focus of Keppel Offshore & Marie Grelad Group Samsug Heavy Idustries Martec Ltd. Vietsovpetro

2 Focus o: The Marie Idustry Case Studies: Keppel Offshore & Marie Grelad Group Samsug Heavy Idustries Martec Ltd. Vietsovpetro Class Society Perspectives: Lloyd s Register DNV ABS What the World s Top Marie Idustry Leaders ad Class Societies Share i Commo To maage the challeges of producig icreasigly complex ships ad offshore platforms, the world s top marie idustry leaders ad class societies are cotiually seekig ways to icrease productivity ad accelerate project schedules. Itergraph solutios have bee used i offshore projects aroud the world for more tha 20 years. Twety of the top 25 petroleum compaies i the world ad 18 of the top 20 egieerig compaies i this market are Itergraph customers. Itergraph has bee istrumetal i advacig marie desig ad productio efficiecy. Notable vessels built usig Itergraph marie software iclude the world s first Arctic icebreaker taker, the world s largest cotaier ship ad the Cuard lier Quee Mary 2. Itergraph solutios have also bee used for ships of the Australia, Daish, Norwegia, Spaish ad U.S. avies as well as for Frech, Idia ad Spaish submaries. Idustry Perspective: SNAME Did You Kow? Itergraph SmartMarie Eterprise Itergraph, the Itergraph logo, SmartMarie, ItelliShip, SmartPlat, PDS, Spoolge, ad SmartSketch are registered trademarks of Itergraph Corporatio. Microsoft ad Widows NT are registered trademarks ad SQL Server is a trademark of Microsoft Corporatio. SAP ad SAP NetWeaver are registered trademarks of SAP AG. Other brads ad product ames are trademarks of their respective owers. Itergraph believes the iformatio i this publicatio is accurate as of its publicatio date. Such iformatio is subject to chage without otice ad is subject to applicable techical product descriptios. Itergraph is ot resposible for iadvertet errors Itergraph Corp. 05/09 PPM-US-0042A-ENG

3 SECTION CASE STUDY: TITLE Keppel GOES HERE Offshore & Marie Keppel Offshore & Marie Chooses SmartMarie 3D for Desig Efficiecy Software to speed productio of offshore desigs By Jaa Miller SmartMarie 3D, developed by Itergraph, represets oe of the latest 3D desig software solutios i the market. The software provides shipbuilders with better decisio support capabilities to facilitate global desig, productio ad life cycle optimizatio. I 2006, Keppel Offshore & Marie (Keppel O&M) adopted this ext geeratio software as a data-cetric solutio to streamlie its ew-build desig processes. We started talkig to Itergraph i late 2003 about usig PDS to deliver the P-51, P-52 ad P-56 projects, said Aziz Merchat, geeral maager for egieerig at Keppel O&M. At that time, the SmartMarie 3D software was ew to us. Itergraph provided us with traiig which helped our team uderstad the tools ad their usage. Keppel O&M completed its trial of SmartMarie 3D i Its Mumbai egieerig office subsequetly became the first to use Smart- Marie 3D as its modelig tool for a ewbuild semisubmersible drillig teder for its customer Seadrill. This drillig teder is built to Keppel s SSDTTM proprietary desig which caters to operatios i the deepwater regios i the Gulf of Mexico, Brazil, West Africa ad Southeast Asia. SmartMarie 3D improved our productivity by reducig the ma-hours required to desig projects. Its user-friedly iterface ad excellet graphics are a added advatage for us, said Merchat. Itergraph has partered with Keppel O&M extesively o this project ad has provided site support ad cosultatio to optimize the usage of SmartMarie 3D. The SSDT project for Seadrill is ow close to completio. From the time we first used PDS, the techical support we have received from Itergraph has bee very good. This was oe of the key factors we cosidered prior to makig the decisio to The Marie Idustry Isight 1

4 SECTION TITLE GOES HERE take the ext step with SmartMarie 3D. We will cotiue to build o our wi-wi partership with Itergraph to further develop the use of SmartMarie 3D to ehace our desig processes, added Merchat. Keppel O&M will soo start aother pilot project to itegrate SmartMarie 3D with its other SmartMarie Eterprise software, icludig: SmartPlat P&ID SmartPlat Electrical SmartPlat Foudatio SmartPlat Materials. This itegratio will further improve the desig to productio iformatio ad materials iformatio geerated. SmartMarie 3D is oe of our key 3D solutios ad reiforces our positio as the provider of choice ad parter for solutios i the offshore ad marie idustry, said Merchat. About Keppel Offshore & Marie Keppel Offshore & Marie is oe of the world s largest offshore ad marie groups. It has a strategic etwork of 20 yards servig regios such as Asia-Pacific, Gulf of Mexico, Brazil, Caspia Sea, Middle East ad the North Sea. Established i 2002, it is a wholly-owed subsidiary of Keppel Corp. The compay itegrates the experiece ad expertise of Keppel FELS, Keppel Shipyard, Keppel Sigmarie ad its yards overseas. Quality solutios to customers are ehaced by proprietary techology ad critical egieerig expertise. Keppel O&M is the world leader i floatig, productio, storage ad offloadig (FPSO) ad floatig, storage ad offloadig (FSO) coversios. It is a leadig ship repairer for liquefied atural gas (LNG) ad liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) carriers ad a iche player i specialized coversios ad costructio. Its expertise i specialized ew-buildig exteds to a wide rage of small to medium-sized customized vessels icludig achor hadlig tug supply vessels, multipurpose support vessels ad cable ships for a worldwide clietele. MAXA Award 2008 Keppel FELS was amed the overall wier of Sigapore s aual MAXA awards, which recogizes maufacturig excellece. MAXA is ru i partership by Sigapore s Ecoomic Developmet Board, McKisey & Co., ad the Sigapore- MIT Alliace. Keppel FELS Ltd. has grabbed a domiat share of the world s oil rig market by ruig its operatio more like a maufacturig plat istead of a costructio yard. Oil rig makers typically ru their busiess like a project-based costructio job: most compaies build these icredibly massive structures oe-byoe, from the bottom up. Keppel FELS has tured its shipyard ito a large assembly lie, buildig rigs i modules that are made at workstatios by specialized crews that do oly that. Keppel has also set up subcotractors yards, where suppliers make compoets right o site. Creatig a vedor yard ecourages compaies to work more closely together. This is very Toyotalike thikig, says Chita Bhagat, maagig parter of McKisey s Sigapore office. You do t expect to see that i a shipyard. Operatioal excellece o everythig from the techical equipmet used by factories to how staff are traied ad icetivized uderpis the success of ay maufacturig compay, o matter what it makes, says Mr. Bhagat. I work across the regio ad while compaies i Sigapore could embrace lea productio more fully, may are particularly good o the operatios side, says Mr. Bhagat. Oe example: the level of ivestmet compaies make i techical tools ad systems, especially iformatiotechology systems, is much higher i Sigapore tha the rest of the regio, he says. Sigapore-based compaies ted to outperform, partly because they have to. Compaies here have had to move aggressively up the value chai, he says. As Sigapore s ecoomy matured durig the 1980s ad 1990s, may multiatioals bega to move lower-ed maufacturig operatios to cheaper Asia locatios. The maufacturig compaies that are located here today focus istead o high-value high-ed productio, tappig Sigapore s pool of highly-educated egieers ad researchers, the city-state s strog itellectual property laws ad its positio as a hub for Asia markets. Sigapore s maufacturig sector still cotributes oe-quarter of the city-state s GDP today. I 2005, the EDB aouced that it aimed to double maufacturig output to US$200 billio ad value-added to US$53 billio by Keppel FELS is a uique example of a compay that s improved its operatioal model, ad tured its Sigapore-based site ito a world-leadig operatio. Iovatios i both its operatig system ad its products have helped this Sigaporea compay grab a domiat share i the oil rig costructio busiess. Keppel FELS has delivered over 50 percet of the world s jack-up rigs ad 45 percet of the submersible rigs i the last five years. The compay s proprietary submersible rigs ca operate i deep waters up to 10,000 feet ad drill dow to 30,000 feet. These oil rigs feature sophisticated dyamic positioig capabilities, which allow the rig to maeuver smoothly ad maitai its positio ad headig at sea, i place of the traditioal moorig systems, which are less flexible. To meet demad as oil exploratio moves ito ever deeper water, Keppel has developed a rig called the deep draft submersible, which is ideal for areas like the Gulf of Mexico, Brazil ad West Africa. We have succeeded i itegratig the best of both project ad maufacturig approaches ito our process, says Tog Chog Heog, maagig director of both Keppel FELS ad its paret, Keppel Offshore & Marie Ltd. Jaa Miller is editorial director of Isight ad is based i Hutsville, Alabama, U.S. 2 Isight Special Issue

5 CASE STUDY: GRENLAND GROUP Grelad Group Chooses SmartPlat Eterprise to Maximize Offshore Productio Itegratig huge amout of data i tight timeframe By Terje Tviereim Grelad Group eeded to be able to deliver all egieerig ad maufacturig iformatio for the Low Pressure Modificatio Project at the Oseberg field i the Norwegia part of the North Sea. The project ivolved two offshore platforms coected by a bridge. Owed ad operated by StatoilHydro, the Norwegia oil ad gas compay, the eormous ad complex Oseberg field modificatio effort required 170,000 egieerig labor hours. The project deadlie was also extremely tight. Meetig the challege At Oseberg, the project goal is to be able to produce more oil from the wells as the field eters the fial portio of its life cycle. Low pressure modificatio meas that, with a lower pressure productio method, StatoilHydro will maximize the amout of oil it ca extract durig the ed-of-life of these wells. The project is a huge challege with great potetial gai. To succeed will require a moumetal effort i itegratig disparate data, icludig maual drawig iformatio, existig 3D models coverted from PDMS, use of ew 3D laser scaig techology ad ew modelig data. The modificatio project also demads ew process iformatio ad istrumetatio tasks to be geerated, i additio to the update of existig P&IDs ad istrumetatio. The compay faced extreme difficulty whe it routiely used a wide variety of desig egieerig applicatios. The various applicatios The Marie Idustry Isight 3

6 SECTION TITLE GOES HERE did ot work together, compoudig workflow problems. As the compay ad its busiess grew, desig egieerig system activities became icreasigly harder to support ad more expesive to maage. Desired itegratio Grelad s ew itegrated desig egieerig system had to deliver iformatio as clash-free 3D models ad structural, pipig, equipmet, support ad raceway modelig elemets, as well as structural assembly ad maufacturig drawigs, all the way dow to the cuttig details. The system would be expected to routiely ad rapidly produce pipig isometrics, P&IDs, istrumet loop drawigs ad materials take-off data all while maitaiig a seamless coectio with the purchasig system. O top of that, Grelad s system would be required to act as the cetral source for all egieerig iformatio, itegratig data from several other systems. To support multidisciplie projects i the oshore, offshore ad marie markets costefficietly ad o time, Grelad eeded a itegrated desig system that used traditioal 3D models ad 2D CAD drawigs as a desig basis. The desired system would act as a sigle platform for all egieerig iformatio, especially i large-scale projects. Puttig it all together The timeframe for StatoilHydro s project completio is very critical. This puts a heavy burde o Grelad to be able to automate the iformatio flow to avoid delays. The project s fiacial success, both for cliet ad ower operator, depeds o this. SmartPlat Eterprise is essetial to achievig our goal, said Terje Ørbeck, CAD maager ad 3D coordiator at Grelad Group. The major requiremets ifluecig the compay s selectio of SmartPlat Eterprise, ad SmartPlat Eterprise met ad eve exceeded our expectatios. SmartPlat Foudatio i particular, icluded the followig: A itegrated system for all desig disciplies that uses a commo user iterface Moder system architecture that ca be built upo for the future A easy to lear user iterface with moder graphics A serious supplier with depth of experiece i the plat desig market A local, kowledgeable support team with sufficiet resources to follow through. Settig the stadard To put it mildly, Ørbeck admits, there was a lot of very differet egieerig software i use at Grelad. Iformatio had to be itegrated from geeral draftig systems, like AutoCAD ad MicroStatio 2D drawigs, ad from 3D modelig, such as from PDS, PlatSpace ad PDMS. There was a eed for stadardizatio i order to miimize costs ad maximize resources. Grelad chose the SmartPlat Eterprise suite, icludig SmartPlat 3D, SmartPlat Foudatio, SmartPlat P&ID ad SmartPlat Istrumetatio. SmartPlat Eterprise met ad eve exceeded our expectatios, says Ørbeck. Approximately 20 desigers i the Oseberg project use the system for 3D modelig, structural desig, pipig ad equipmet desig ad raceway desig. Layout ad structural fabricatio drawigs, pipig isometrics ad spools are all extracted from the system. I additio, seve process egieers ad five istrumet egieers perform desig work usig SmartPlat Eterprise. SmartPlat Foudatio is used as the iformatio source for a wide rage of people who eed access to project data. Straight from the source The use of SmartPlat Foudatio as the mai desig egieerig data source for the project will be further exteded to also iclude publishig of drawigs like layout, maufacturig drawigs for structural desig, pipig isometrics ad P&IDs. Geerally speakig, the iteral desig cotrol workflows ad acceptaces will be performed iside SmartPlat Foudatio. SmartPlat Eterprise ad SmartPlat Foudatio have great potetial to be the key iformatio source for the etire project s developmet ad completio. Itelliget tools o a commo platform are feedig the mai iformatio ito a sigle data source, said Ørbeck. That meas you get cotrol of your desig ad ca achieve your project goal o time ad withi budget. Quick traiig After Itergraph s iitial implemetatio ad educatioal services, Grelad took over the ogoig traiig ad project implemetatio. Grelad ow has the ability to maage huge, multidisciplie projects i a reliable ad easyto-use maer o a commo platform. Our busiess requires may cotractor resources. It s crucial that traiig be easy for these people, said Ørbeck. They wo t have SmartPlat Eterprise experiece, but we must get them productive i the project as soo as possible. Prove techology SmartPlat Eterprise has prove to us that this will work. It s ituitive ad easy to lear, said Ørbeck. This is a really big plus for Grelad. SmartPlat Eterprise is a great project tool. Of course, you must have excellet IT people o the frot ed to prepare for, adapt ad implemet this platform. But the reward comes for the geeral user who ca lear the system quickly ad put it to work right away. Terje Tviereim serves as seior vice presidet of the Techology Cetre at Grelad Group. He is based i Sadefjord, Norway. 4 Isight Special Issue

7 Case Study: Samsug Heavy Idustries Smooth Sailig for Samsug Heavy Idustries SmartMarie 3D cuts desig errors ad boosts productivity By Jaa Miller The secod largest shipbuilder i the world, Samsug Heavy Idustries Co. Ltd. (SHI) is strogly focused o the shipbuildig ad offshore markets. The South Korea compay has almost 11,000 employees ad sales totaled US$8.5 billio i SHI desigs ad costructs high value-added vessels such as LNG carriers ad large passeger ships, as well as drill ships ad shuttle takers, for which it is globally raked No. 1. The compay operates eight overseas facilities, icludig a ship block factory i Chia. SHI holds three iteratioal quality stadards ISO 9001, ISO ad OHSAS ad is iteratioally recogized for its quality, safety ad evirometal awareess. Seeig results SHI s Geoje Shipyard bega usig Itergraph SmartMarie 3D i productio i 2004 ad it has already yielded measurable results that have impacted SHI s bottom lie. Sice choosig SmartMarie 3D, we ve made a remarkable reductio i the amout of desig errors ad material costs. We ve also improved costructio productivity, said Yeog Soo Bae, executive vice presidet of Shipbuildig Desig at SHI. With SmartMarie 3D, we have reduced desig errors i half. We have also improved productivity by about 10 percet. SmartMarie 3D SHI uses SmartMarie 3D for desigig ad buildig the structure ad outfittig of ships (see table). The solutio helps SHI maage a Microsoft SQL Server database with 1.1 terabytes of active data. SmartMarie 3D supports cocurret egieerig ad a frot-loadig workflow. The solutio provides a large amout of productio iformatio to easily iterface with ERP systems, ad SHI is workig to take advatage of this by developig a iterface. Itegratios with third party solutio Eest, a structure estig program, alog with several i-house solutios, have proved very beeficial. These itegratios traslate ito a large reductio i desig labor hours at SHI, said Bae. Across the eterprise SHI recetly chose SmartPlat Foudatio, Itergraph s iformatio maagemet solutio, to improve its productivity. This marks the first implemetatio of SmartPlat Foudatio i the shipbuildig idustry. SmartPlat Foudatio forms a cetral data warehouse ad egieerig ad maufacturig data chage chael for large ad complicated ship desig. As shipbuildig projects grow larger while project schedules become shorter, a itegrated product ad egieerig iformatio maagemet system represets a key success factor. The shipbuilder ca exchage quality desig iformatio ad maufacturig iformatio The Marie Idustry Isight 5

8 SECTION TITLE GOES HERE durig the project ad deliver as-built iformatio to ship owers at the same time the project is completed. SmartPlat Foudatio will be used as a stadardized data warehouse i the shipbuildig divisio as a first step. SHI has plas to use Itergraph solutios for the etire desig process, i both shipbuildig ad offshore plat projects. I additio, SHI will stadardize its basic CAD format corporate-wide to Itergraph s SmartSketch. This SmartSketch stadardizatio will exted to SHI s offshore plat divisio ad its subsidiary shipyard i Chia. I-depth services SHI s experiece has show that SmartMarie solutios require far less traiig tha previously used software solutios ad its employees ca be fully productive i far less time i a matter of moths istead of a year or more. Traiig icludes basic courses such as a seve-week course for structural users, ad a three-week course for outfittig users. Itergraph supports our maagemet team with valuable services, said Bae. The Itergraph staff has also helped us with a umber of customizatio efforts, icludig catalogs, rules, specificatios, drawig labels, plus stadards data migratio. Prove experiece We chose Itergraph because they have adopted the most advaced, state-of-the-art architecture, said Bae. Itergraph is a steady ad promisig compay, with strog experiece i developig both plat ad shipbuildig CAD software. SHI looks forward to eve greater success i the future, ad is lookig at possibly expadig its eterprise solutio by addig Itergraph SmartPlat P&ID to its solutio mix. Oe thig we pla to achieve i the upcomig year is to reduce desig cost, said Bae. SmartMarie 3D will be used for at least the ext 10 years for all of our projects as our mai CAD tool. Through the Workflow SHI takes advatage of SmartMarie 3D for a variety of shipbuildig tasks, icludig: Ship structure desig SmartMarie 3D molded form Structure detailig Structure maufacturig Plaig Drawig Ship outfittig desig SmartMarie 3D pipe routig SmartPlat Structure Equipmet placemet HVAC routig Cableway routig Cable routig Plaig Hole maagemet Hager ad support Weight ad CG Iterferece check Drawig Other Itergraph solutios used SmartPlat 3D SmartPlat Foudatio SmartSketch SmartPlat Markup Plus PDS Complemetary solutios used Eest EzHULL Samsug Heavy Idustries is usig Itergraph techology for a variety of highvalue marie structures: Project Implemetatio Area Delivery Date 97,000 toes drill ship Aft E/R (excludig forward M/C room, thruster room) ,000 toes drill ship E/R ,000 bbls FPSO All area ,000 bbls FPSO All area 2010 Jaa Miller is editorial director of Isight. 6 Isight Special Issue

9 Case Study: Martec LTD. Martec Speeds Structural Aalysis by Itegratig FE Tools with Global 3D Modelig New FE methodology could reduce dowtime for ships By Kevi Corbley Research idicates that i-service maiteace issues o large marie vessels ca be assessed more quickly with detailed fiite elemet (FE) aalysis whe structural geometry ad coectivity data are extracted from global 3D models of the ships. This approach is far more costeffective tha geeratig localized FE models from scratch. The research was coducted o behalf of the Caadia Navy by Martec Ltd., Halifax, N.S., Caada, a specialist i performig advaced egieerig simulatios for the aalysis of complex structures. Accordig to David Brea, Martec maager of aval platforms, the ew FE methodology makes sese from a practical perspective because global digital 3D models are icreasigly beig created durig the desig ad costructio of ew ships. As a result, they are more readily available for use oce the ship becomes operatioal, extedig the usefuless of the models through the ship s life cycle. I the future, a 3D model will be oe of the deliverables to the Caadia Navy [whe a ew ship is built,] said Brea. This model will start i the prelimiary desig or cocept phase, ad the data will cotiue to evolve through the costructio ito the i-service support ad the ito decommissioig. Bridgig the sigificat gap betwee FE ad global 3D modelig to make life cycle models a reality ultimately became the objective of the research. To accomplish this, Martec teamed with Itergraph Corp., Hutsville, Ala., a developer of eterprise, aval ad commercial ship desig solutios. Assessig the tools The research cotract with Defece Research ad Developmet Caada i Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, called for the firm to assess the curret status of available software tools that could be used to aalyze how structural damage to a ship might impact its operatioal capabilities. The egieerig firm already had several FE aalysis tools uder developmet. The damage i questio could be the result of corrosio, collisio, groudig, weapos blast or ormal wear ad tear. Although such damage may be foud durig a routie refit, the Caadia Navy was more cocered with icidets that happe at sea. I these cases, time is of the essece. The objective of the project was to develop methods to quickly determie whether the ship could cotiue o its missio or eeded to retur to port for immediate repairs. Martec focused o simulatig how localized damage affected the overall stregth of a ship. For the research, Martec modified its ow suite of FE modelig tools for marie aalysis. But first the firm had to create a digital 3D model of a Caadia aval vessel. Techicias simulated various types of vessel damage i a computerized eviromet ad the applied structural stregth, hydrodyamic ad other aalysis algorithms. I a The Marie Idustry Isight 7

10 SECTION TITLE GOES HERE operatioal mode, the goal would be to provide the ship s captai with a detailed assessmet of the situatio withi a matter of hours. The five-year research project yielded both good ad bad ews, accordig to Michael Lichodzijewski, Martec seior software egieer. The results Martec selected the SmartMarie Eterprise solutio from Itergraph s Process, Power & Marie divisio to iterface with its FE aalysis suite. Previously kow as ItelliShip, this software solutio was developed by Itergraph for use i the coceptual desig, egieerig, materials procuremet, parts maufacturig ad costructio of a vessel or offshore structure. This package had bee created with life cycle optimizatio i mid. I additio to the fact that the Itergraph solutio is deployed commercially at shipyards aroud the world, the package appealed to Martec ad suited the compay s eeds i several ways. Most importat was the architecture of the 3D modelig software, which provided a ope programmer iterface where simple scripts could be writte to plug i the FE aalysis tools. This allows the Martec software to select ad export large amouts of data directly from the global model. O top of that, the ease of use allowed faster creatio of the required 3D models. Our tools extract structural geometry ad related iformatio from the global model i a itelliget fashio ad maipulate the data to geerate a more ratioal fiite elemet model, said Lichodzijewski. This is a critical advatage for FE modelig because the global 3D model cotais ot oly the geometry of the ship s structural elemets, but the database icludes a wealth of iformatio relatig to the idividual pieces. For example, the 3D model reveals that a specific plate is coected to a stiffeer, ad the accompayig database describes the materials of each part alog with rules dictatig how they are correctly coected to oe aother ad to surroudig elemets. This database iformatio, sometimes referred to as sematics, describes the attributes ad relatioship of every structural elemet i the ship. The value of such exhaustive iformatio, accordig to Dr. Mark Riley of Defece Research ad Developmet Caada, is the geometric model ca be used for seve or eight differet types of aalysis. Just as importatly, the richess of coectivity detail i the SmartMarie database eables FE aalysis to be performed at both the macro ad micro level. Specifically, egieers ca extract coarse ad detailed structural iformatio from the 3D model to simulate localized damage. Brea added that aother beefit of itegratig FE aalysis tools with a commercial desig package like SmartMarie is that 3D models ca be geerated from as-built drawigs ad other records for ships already i service. As part of the research project, Martec egieers used the Itergraph software to create a global 3D model of a Kigsto Class aval vessel. This process took about oe-third the amout of time required to make a similar model from scratch usig customized tools durig the early phase of the research. Goig operatioal Eve though the iitial research has bee completed, Martec has cotiued with plas to itroduce FE aalysis services utilizig global 3D geometric data extracted from SmartMarie models. To date, the firm has successfully applied this ew methodology for aalysis of corrosio, cathodic protectio, stress, ad hydrodyamics of commercial ad military vessels. Marcel Veldhuize, maager of Asia Pacific busiess developmet at Itergraph, predicts the log-term effect of this less expesive method of structural aalysis will ultimately assist vessel owers i keepig their ships i the water loger with less dowtime ad safer operatios. It may eve exted the operatioal lives of ships through more effective maiteace. Reprited with permissio from Marie Log, Jue ad July 2008 issues, Kevi Corbley is the pricipal of Corbley Commuicatios Ic. ad is based i Wichester, Virgiia, U.S. 8 Isight Special Issue

11 CASE STUDY: VIETSOVPETRO Vietsovpetro Stays o Top of Offshore Desig Upgrade from PDS to SmartPlat 3D improves productivity By Dag Dih Nguye Vietsovpetro (VSP) is a Vietamese-Russia joit veture focused o the productio of oil ad gas from offshore sources; exploratio ad survey work for the oil ad gas idustry; well drillig; ad the desig, assembly ad repair of offshore facilities. Resposible for approximately 80 percet of the atio s oil ad gas output, VSP helps Vietam rak third i oil productio ad export i Southeast Asia. VSP has produced more tha US$33 billio of oil ad gas ad cotiues to grow fields through ew discoveries ad the elargemet of existig fields. The compay cotributes about 25 percet of Vietam s atioal reveue, makig it the largest cotributor to the state s ecoomy. Advaced techology Whe it comes to maitaiig ad maagig our assets, we face a umber of challeges. It is importat that we ivest i ad embrace good techology to address these eeds. With Itergraph techology, we are able to quickly visualize, questio ad aalyze situatios so that we do t make costly mistakes. We have bee a logtime user of Itergraph applicatios, begiig with PDS. We chose Itergraph because it offers a complete solutios portfolio to satisfy project executio eeds. Whe we first leared about the advaced cocepts that SmartPlat 3D offered such as relatioships, associatios ad rule-based egieerig, we kew without a doubt that SmartPlat 3D is the future of egieerig. We bega to migrate our PDS seats to SmartPlat 3D seats soo afterward. Data itegrity At VSP, we perform a large umber of desigs ad modificatios for ew ad existig offshore platforms. It is a challege to keep track of the chages ad the related documetatio updates whe we use a traditioal CAD-based approach. With Itergraph SmartPlat Eterprise solutios, desig ad documetatio activities are sychroized. This meas we ca esure the data itegrity of the desig or model. Keepig track of existig, ew ad future data is also importat whe we work o proposals. Whe a chage occurs, we wat to make sure that there are o clashes or operability or maitaiability issues. Because of the umber of chages we make o our facilities, we chose the SmartPlat Eterprise platform. Specifically, SmartPlat 3D was our top priority. With SmartPlat 3D, we ca easily maage data i both the 3D model ad i outputs such as drawigs. Oce our model for a platform is built, it serves as a as-built model of the facility. This eables us to query, report ad extract ay type of deliverable depedig o the request. We also ited to use the model as a iitial data set whe we egage cotractors for major modificatio projects. VSP s Sciece Research ad Desig Istitute (NIPI) divisio is focused o desig ad egieerig. NIPI uses SmartPlat 3D for the desig ad update of our offshore platforms. Sice there are very few chages to the structural members o these facilities, the majority of the work is related to mechaical ad pipig. The Marie Idustry Isight 9

12 SECTION TITLE GOES HERE NIPI uses SmartPlat 3D for tasks such as desig ad istallatio of ew pipelies ad equipmet items, extractio of geeral arragemet drawigs, pipig isometric drawigs, equipmet layouts, pipe support drawigs ad various types of reports. As-built model SmartPlat 3D maages the as-built 3D model of our RP2 offshore platform. We use SmartPlat 3D to model the existig process system ad mai structure of the platform. With Itergraph s advaced solutio, we desiged ad modeled the ew process system, icludig equipmet, pipig, auxiliary structure ad pipe support. SmartPlat 3D helped us perform desig check ad review. We were able to geerate deliveries to meet VSP s stadard formats for 2D drawigs as well as equipmet ad pipig plas, pipig isometric drawigs ad MTOs. Services Havig experieced ad kowledgeable local parters gives us cofidece i upgradig our Itergraph techology. We chose Itergraph because of the high level of support we receive from Itergraph ad its local parter i Vietam, Credet Techology. The Itergraph cosultats are experieced ad very kowledgeable. Most of them have experiece i workig for large EPC compaies. They brig to the table ot oly software experiece but also project executio kowledge, which is very importat to us. Our PDS users took a SmartPlat 3D traiig course. Itergraph ad Credet traiig staff were available i the office to offer assistace afterward for approximately four weeks. This was perfect for the users to get used to the ew system. We have received excellet service from Credet for both traiig ad customizatio. We customized catalogs, specificatios, symbols, drawig templates ad more. We wated to start from scratch with SmartPlat 3D, so o data migratios were performed. All of the catalog ad specificatio items were created by referrig to the softcopy documetatio ad maufacturer catalogs. Costat support from Itergraph ad Credet was very helpful i guidig us alog our iitial About Vietsovpetro Durig its 28 years of experiece, Vietsovpetro has accomplished a umber of oteworthy achievemets. The compay has built a sychroized ad advaced techical system oshore ad offshore to supply oil ad gas productio. VSP was the first to discover ad efficietly exploit Vietam s uique basemet oil reservoirs, such as White Tiger, Drago, Big Bear ad Eagle. The compay has developed techical solutios for optimal exploitatio of subsoil resources. These techiques have attracted the attetio of foreig ivestors to petroleum exploratio ad productio o Vietam s souther cotietal shelf, ad the attetio of worldwide scietists as well. The joit veture has become the mai force of Vietam s petroleum idustry ad ecoomy. VSP has produced early 161 millio tos of crude oil from its White Tiger, Drago ad Big Bear oilfields, with total crude oil turover at approximately US$33 billio. path. We started our first SmartPlat 3D project withi just two moths. We defiitely see productivity beefits i usig SmartPlat 3D. SmartPlat Eterprise VSP uses a variety of Itergraph SmartPlat Eterprise solutios: SmartPlat 3D PDS SmartPlat Foudatio SmartPlat Istrumetatio SmartPlat P&ID SmartPlat Review SmartPlat Spoolge. I the future, we pla to expad our use of Smart- Plat 3D i cojuctio with our other SmartPlat Eterprise solutios to esure that other relevat iformatio such as P&ID ad istrumetatio data is maitaied i a as-built status. We recogize that havig access to ew tech - ology is vital. Oe of our most importat tasks is to help our employees ehace their professioal kowledge, apply techology ad gai project executio kowledge. This is the biggest value we add to our orgaizatio by buildig up our greatest asset, our employees. VSP has boosted Vietam s ecoomy across a broad spectrum of idustries. The supply of gas from the White Tiger field has brought the developmet of eergy, fertilizer-chemicals ad fuel gas idustries i additio to improvig shippig repair, port ad warehouse services, petroleum products distributio ad eve tourism. The compay plays a importat role i the developmet of local ecoomy ad culture. VSP has cotributed millios of dollars from both its corporate fud as well as employee volutary cotributios for buildig ifrastructure, historicalcultural care, schools, hospitals, ad supportig victims of poverty ad both domestic ad foreig atural disasters. The presidet of Vietam has twice give VSP the atio s highest award, the Hero of Labor Golde Star of Vietam, alog with may other hoors. Such great achievemets are the results of tireless efforts of the compay s 6,500 employees. Dag Dih Nguye is maager of the process, pipig ad offshore desig departmet for the Sciece Research ad Desig Istitute at Vietsovpetro Joit Veture. He is based i Vug Tau City, Vietam Isight Special Issue

13 CLASS SOCIETY PERSPECTIVE: Lloyd s register Buildig a Ship Desig ad Classificatio Iterface Lloyd s Register improves desig, certificatio, costructio ad commissioig processes By Paul Roberts The Lloyd s Register Group is a global idepedet risk maagemet ad safety assurace orgaizatio. Fouded i Lodo i 1760, it operates idepedetly of ay govermet or other body ad is o-profit distributig. Lloyd s Register works closely with shipyards ad is a market leader i ship classificatio. This process is supported by our software. By workig alogside Itergraph, we are ehacig our support to the idustry by recogizig the use of Itergraph s solutios withi the shipbuildig market. Buildig o SmartMarie 3D Lloyd s Register is committed to providig iterfaces to the software desig applicatios used by ship desigers. We are ope to market eeds. SmartMarie 3D, with its process-orieted, modular approach, is amog the leadig solutios for shipbuildig desig ad maufacturig. Creatig a iterface to our assessmet applicatios is a strategic decisio that will drive efficiecy ad create value for users of both orgaizatios software applicatios. The Lloyd s Register Group recetly acquired Martec Limited, a leadig Caadia marie research ad developmet orgaizatio with over 30 years experiece i developig advaced egieerig simulatio techology for the desig ad aalysis of complex structures ad systems particularly ships, ports, harbors ad offshore facilities. Martec idepedetly chose Itergraph SmartMarie 3D to supplemet its ow modelig software (see page 14). Ship class software Lloyd s Register offers multiple software solutios, two of which RulesCalc ad ShipRight SDA (structural desig assessmet) are aimed at helpig ship desigers. RulesCalc is a essetial, easy-to-use software tool for structural assessmet i the iitial desig process. It aids the process of compliace checkig of ship desigs agaist Lloyd s Register s Rules ad Regulatios for the Classificatio of Ships, prior to plas beig submitted for approval. RulesCalc also supports the Iteratioal Associatio of Classificatio Societies (IACS) Commo Structural Rules for Double Hull Oil Takers ad Bulk Carriers. RulesCalc allows desig optios to be aalyzed i a sigle program, eablig quick iteratios to be performed to help determie the optimal structural cofiguratio. The iterface fits with our goal of providig risk maagemet solutios to ehace the quality, safety, evirometal ad busiess performace of our cliets. ShipRight SDA is a special-purpose structural desig assessmet tool which uses fiite elemet aalysis methods (FEA). The latest versio of ShipRight SDA fully supports the direct calculatio requiremets for the Commo Structural Rules, as well as UR S25 for bulk carriers. ShipRight SDA helps users save time durig desig, whether or ot there is a established process with geeral purpose tools, such as NASTRAN. The solutio works withi the existig process, elimiatig the eed to maitai additioal models for classificatio purposes. The software is flexible eough to be used at ay stage, from modelig to aalysis, postprocessig ad reportig. It icludes automatic load case geeratio ad automatic reportig. Neutral iterface Itergraph ad Lloyd s Register are workig to build a eutral iterface betwee Itergraph s SmartMarie 3D multi-disciplie ship desig software ad Lloyd s Register s assessmet applicatios, RulesCalc ad ShipRight SDA. SmartMarie 3D, coupled with this ew iterface, will improve the overall ship desig, certificatio, costructio ad commissioig process. Shipyards ad ship desigers ca easily check the model created i SmartMarie 3D agaist Lloyd s Register s Rules, elimiatig redudat modelig ad reducig errors. Sice SmartMarie 3D is rule-based, checks early i the desig cycle automatically carry over to detailed desig ad costructio. With the iterface, our cliets will gai maximum re-usability from their data model. Plus, cliets ca idetify problems early before they impact project schedules. The iterface fits with our goal of providig risk maagemet solutios to ehace the quality, safety, evirometal ad busiess performace of our cliets. Paul Roberts is the egieerig software product ower at Lloyd s Register ad is based i Lodo, U.K. The Marie Idustry Isight 11

14 CLASS SOCIETY PERSPECTIVE: DNV Eablig Data Flow throughout the Marie Asset Life Cycle DNV Software offers seamless itegratio with SmartMarie 3D Image courtesy MARINTEK. By Ellig Rishoff Det Norske Veritas (DNV) is a idepedet foudatio with the objective of safeguardig life, property ad the eviromet. It was fouded i 1864 to ispect ad evaluate the techical coditio of Norwegia merchat vessels. The core missio of DNV is to idetify, assess ad advise o how to maage risk. Whether it classifies a ship or advises o how to best maitai a agig oil platform, DNV s focus is to safely ad resposibly improve busiess performace. DNV Software Today s competitive busiess eviromet requires compaies to become more ad more agile. The ability to act ad chage rapidly costitutes a huge busiess advatage. DNV Software offers solutios for good busiess performace, quality cotrol ad cotiuous learig withi a orgaizatio. As the commercial software house of DNV, DNV Software is a market leader i software developmet for desig, stregth assessmet, risk aalysis, asset life cycle maagemet ad kowledge-based egieerig i the maritime, offshore ad process idustries. Alliace with Itergraph Sice 1998, Itergraph ad DNV Software have worked together uder a licesig, co-marketig ad reseller agreemet for itegratig ad marketig their respective techologies. These iclude Itergraph SmartMarie 3D, related SmartPlat Eterprise software ad life cycle egieerig iformatio maagemet tools, the DNV Software Nauticus Early Desig ad egieerig iformatio maagemet life cycle products. Itergraph ad DNV Software maitai a strategic alliace to sell ad distribute SmartMarie 3D software for the commercial shipbuildig, offshore, oil ad gas markets. The agreemet expads the value of SmartMarie 3D by eablig scatligs validatio agaist classificatio rules, structural ad hydrodyamic aalysis i early desig stages ad asset life cycle maagemet to shipyards ad ship owers. 12 Isight Special Issue

15 SmartMarie 3D Techology Foudatio DNV Software builds early desig software o SmartMarie 3D techology ad exclusively sells the resultig products uder the brad ame Nauticus Early Desig. The Nauticus Early Desig software performs early desig fuctios as a gateway to deliver class drawigs packages i a totally ew way. DNV Software has also migrated its ship life cycle egieerig iformatio maagemet tools to the same rules-drive SmartMarie 3D techology base. The result comprises a set of the compaies products coverig the etire ship life cycle. The itegratio miimizes data traslatio ad eables seamless data hadoff betwee life cycle stages. All resultig software products are specifically ope to iclusio of class rules from ay marie classificatio society. Nauticus Early Desig Typically 70 to 80 percet of the total cost of a ew ship buildig project is determied durig the early desig process. Efficiet tools are essetial for ship desigers to optimize the desig ad reduce the risk of costly desig chages later i the process. DNV Software offers the Nauticus Early Desig software to bridge differet desig domais. Haressig the power of existig desig kowledge together with ew iformatio techology i a more itegrated ad structured maer is a essetial issue for improvig desig team productivity. The software itegrates CAD aalysis, eablig ship desigers to perform cotract ad classificatio egieerig faster ad better. Cocurret use of a sigle commo ship product model ad the powerful Brix Workflow maager It oly took about oe moth to trai our employees to use SmartMarie 3D. egie eables a cotrolled ad well-maaged approach to early desig. Nauticus Early Desig combies state-of-theart techologies developed by DNV Software ad Itergraph. A powerful associative ship modeler, multi-user fuctioality ad a rulebased desig eviromet eable ship desigers to perform cotract ad classificatio desig i a fast ad efficiet maer. Molded Forms The ew 3D cocept modeler, Molded Forms, eables fast, accurate defiitio ad commuicatio of ship hull ad structure compoets. Decks, bulkheads, plates ad stiffeers are liked together by a very robust associative data model that eables the easy modificatio ad update of ship models throughout the desig. The object-orieted database is multi-user ad multi-discipliary, ad allows project members to share data istatly across desig disciplies. The system s advaced rule egie eables kowledge-based egieerig with a high degree of automatio ad the elimiatio of repetitive modelig tasks. The ed result is a shorter lead time ad improved quality of desig. DNV Software is customizig SmartMarie 3D to work with Nauticus Hull. The itegratio betwee SmartMarie 3D Molded Forms ad Nauticus Hull has eabled a rich data set for hadlig compartmets, loads ad capacity models. The ew system maages the data ecessary for stregth assessmet of ships ad drawig geeratio, icludig: Hydrodyamic 3D modelig Class rules Capacity check accordig to first priciples Life cycle support. Choosig Itergraph For us at DNV Software, the major factors that iflueced our selectio process were Itergraph s cooperatio with the GRAD cosortium ad the commitmet to Widows NT ad Microsoft. The proper bechmark is always a must whe you are lookig for ew 3D systems. We chose the Itergraph solutios for three mai reasos: Opeess provided by commercial off-theshelf system compoets (operatig system, geometry kerel ad RDBMS) Itegratio amog all the vertical applicatios ivolved Scalability withi SmartMarie Eterprise solutios. DNV Software team members have worked together with Itergraph persoel from Hampto, Virgiia ad Hutsville, Alabama for more tha 10 years. Our relatioship is very strog ad we value the Itergraph team s commitmet ad expertise. Several reasos serve as proof that Itergraph was a good choice. We took advatage of site liceses for SmartMarie 3D ad SmartSketch for flexibility ad coveiece. We use the software for ship 3D modelig, eablig us to cosistetly perform verificatio. Aother good reaso is that it oly took about oe moth to trai our employees to use SmartMarie 3D. The future of DNV Software is based o a successful implemetatio of Nauticus Early Desig i the market, ad workig closely with our parters, such as Itergraph, to provide the best possible solutios for our customers. Ellig Rishoff serves as maagig director of DNV Software ad is based i Oslo, Norway. The Marie Idustry Isight 13

16 CLASS SOCIETY PERSPECTIVE: ABS Pilotig the Seas of Chage ABS prepares today for tomorrow By Christopher J. Wiericki Chage is the costat. Chages i busiess ad social philosophy lead to chages i approach, may of which are based upo chages i techology. ABS sees the marie idustry steadily movig toward a more holistic iterpretatio ad applicatio of quality measuremets ad safety stadards. ABS is a ot-for-profit orgaizatio dedicated to promotig the safety of life ad property at sea ad protectig the atural eviromet. At ABS, oe of the advatages of beig a early 150-year-old classificatio orgaizatio is that chage is part of our DNA. The challeges may wear ew clothes but they are still the same udereath. For example, ABS was origially fouded by the isurace idustry to establish ad apply stadards for the certificatio of seafarers at a time whe there was cocer over the quality ad supply of appropriately traied persoel. Throughout our history, ABS has costatly bee o the leadig edge of techical developmets that have trasformed this idustry. Today we stad o this excitig frotier with a slew of challeges ad opportuities waitig to be tackled. Nie sigificat elemets of chage will redefie the safety, quality ad evirometal protectio frotier of this idustry. I o particular order of importace, I see the followig: 1. The treds cotiue toward larger, more complex, ofte boudary-pushig projects, maily withi the eergy sector, that demad shorter, more itese desig cycles. 2. A much greater emphasis is placed o life cycle maagemet because it helps to maximize ecoomic models ad miimize busiess iterruptio. 3. A icreasigly complex, ad more domiat, regulatory framework is beig built, with evirometal issues takig a more promiet role. 4. The world s isatiable demad for eergy will see this idustry operatig i harsher, deeper ad more remote eviromets. 5. The idustry must deal with the cosequeces of the rapid emergece of ew shipyards ad the additio of a extraordiary amout of ew shipbuildig capacity. 6. A adequate umber of appropriately traied, experieced persoel are eeded to fill ship ad shore-side positios. 7. A reassessmet must be performed to determie the ifluece of charterers. For example, the most astute ship ower ca adopt a rage of measures that may traslate ito a 10 percet gai i fuel efficiecy. The 14 Isight Special Issue

17 charterer, meawhile, has the power to affect overall fuel cosumptio, ad the resultig CO2 emissios, by as much as 20 percet. Are they prepared to play their part? 8. At preset, the marie idustry lags behid may lad-based leaders i the adoptio of eterprise risk maagemet techiques. That will chage. 9. Fially, we are experiecig a uprecedeted level of market activity. If history is our guide, o challege is isurmoutable, the adjustmets will be made, ad the ecouragig track record of steadily improvig safety will be further ehaced. I would suggest that class remais oe of the foudatios upo which this idustry s commitmet to the adoptio of superior safety, quality ad evirometal procedures has bee, is ad will cotiue to be based. I would also suggest that the steady evolutio of safety stadards is ecouragig a covergece i the maer i which the three keystoes of safety, quality ad the eviromet are addressed. Safety will icreasigly be redefied i the cotext of risk-superior moves. It should be explicitly addressed ad uderstood. The demads are such that, i time, a itegrated, holistic approach will most likely become the accepted method for assessig safety, quality ad performace stadards. This will be expected of all of us by a icreasigly active regulatory regime ad a public that has little uderstadig of the vital cotributio that shippig makes to their lives. What does this mea? For a classificatio society, such a holistic approach will more closely meld our core techical competece with our safety, quality ad evirometal maagemet system capabilities. Icreasigly these approaches will more specifically address the desig board to scrap yard life cycle impact of the vessel ad its operatio. Whe I look ahead, I suggest the ext geeratio of risk-superior moves will be characterized by: A covergece of maagemet ad maiteace systems ito a comprehesive eterprise approach The applicatio of risk-based methods ad techologies to support day-to-day decisiomakig Greater itegratio of data to support life cycle maagemet through the wider applicatio of iformatio techology The itegratio of a vessel s safety, quality ad evirometal procedures ad systems from desig ad costructio over its life cycle. Class will be expected to play a cetral role i these developmets. Our rules, which still form the bedrock of classificatio services, have moved from prescriptive to iclude direct calculatio routies that take ito accout the realistic dyamic loads to which a taker, or other vessel, is subject over its service life. We ow routiely apply sophisticated riskbased methodologies to assess ew desig cocepts, shipboard systems ad maiteace procedures. I the field, risk-based ispectios ad reliability-cetered maiteace programs are likely to play a larger role withi future classificatio requiremets. We are headed i the directio of stadards that more closely reflect actual i-service experiece. But there is still work to be doe. More owers ca be expected to adopt sophisticated hull ad machiery itegrity maagemet programs. The programs should provide comprehesive, yet easy-to-use guidace to the master ad chief egieer that ecourages them to focus maiteace efforts i those areas of greatest risk. Whe I speak of covergece, these maiteace programs are a atural outgrowth of the Iteratioal Safety Maagemet (ISM) systems. I see them as a itegral part of the resposible taker operator s Taker Maagemet ad Self- Assessmet (TMSA) program ad a auditable elemet i the Sire assessmets. They will require IT systems to hold ad, whe ecessary, aalyze the data that ca be viewed, ad acted upo, by the superitedet ashore ad the ship s crew o board. Ship operators have a ever-icreasig eed to record ad retai iformatio to: Demostrate compliace to port State ispectors, as evidece for uderwriters ad regulatory agecies i the evet of a mishap Build a performace record of machiery items as the basis of a reliability-cetered maiteace program More accurately predict performace ad better pla for routie dry dockigs, repairs ad reewals. As a result, the eed for a comprehesive, itegrated suite of software to cotrol these processes becomes a essetial elemet of resposible ship maagemet. At ABS, we costatly try to look over the horizo ad aticipate the eeds of our cliets ad the probable icreased regulatory demads that will cotrol their, ad icreasigly our, activities. It is excitig to parter with those cliets who have a similar stace ad frustratig whe circumstaces cotrive to costrai the pace of progress. Our best respose is to work eve harder to demostrate that we are the warp of safety ad the weft of quality withi the fabric of maritime stadards. I look forward to cotiuig to provide our may other cliets with the techical assistace ad practical guidace they eed to operate more efficietly, more safely ad with due respect to the icreasigly fragile eviromet which sustais us all. ABS is i the process of evaluatig Itergraph SmartMarie Eterprise ship models to feed the ABS aalysis applicatios. SmartMarie Eterprise also has the capability to eable ship owers to maage the egieerig desig basis ad optimize operatios ad maiteace throughout the life cycle of a vessel. Christopher J. Wiericki is the presidet ad chief operatig officer of ABS ad is based i Housto, Texas, U.S. The Marie Idustry Isight 15

18 INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVE: SNAME The Challeges ad Promise of U.S. Naval Architecture SNAME works to promote marie idustry growth Image courtesy Scott Koe. By David Joffrio Whe it comes to aval architecture ad marie egieerig ad desig, Phil Kimball has bee there, doe that. As the executive director of the Society of Naval Architects ad Marie Egieers (SNAME), you might say that he is still doig it. Throughout his life, Kimball has gaied a wealth of kowledge ad experiece i this field ad is very qualified i uderstadig what makes the idustry tick. So, whe asked to give his thoughts about the future challeges facig aval architects ad the techology ad resources used to address these challeges, he was ot at a loss for words. There are o secrets i this idustry, he said. There are sectors that are doig very well, ad there are others that are flat or are i declie. Kimball s backgroud is quite impressive, havig started from a traditioal aval architecture ad marie desig educatio ad backgroud. His career bega with mechaical ad ocea egieerig degrees from Steves Istitute of Techology followed by graduate study i aval architecture ad marie egieerig at the Uiversity of Michiga. After leavig school i 1967 he was employed with various compaies as a ship desiger, workig o aval vessels as well as commercial ships, ad later o spet a few years workig with a Paris-based classificatio society. It was from this positio that he accepted the job as executive director of SNAME i Idustry sectors I aalyzig the idustry today, Kimball explaied that SNAME classifies it ito four differet sectors: large ocea-goig ships; govermet vessels; small craft ad offshore. Each sector is distict i terms of the ecoomic vitality ad growth realized from year to year. The large, ocea-goig ships, which iclude commercial ships, cruise ships ad ferries, are primarily beig built outside the U.S. This sector has bee dow for some time ad probably will ever be a major market for the U.S. agai. The small craft sector is boomig i both brow water (coastal, lakes ad rivers) ad blue water (ocea) markets. Although Kimball poits out that because of the ecoomy there is somewhat less activity o the recreatioal side less sail ad powerboats but it is still a vibrat idustry. Offshore (exploratio, oil rigs, recovery, storage, etc.) is doig well right ow also. Although oe ever kows how log that boom period will last, it has bee extremely good for everyoe over the last eight to 10 years ad should cotiue for a umber of years to come. Ad, the U.S. Navy sector, which icludes submaries to aircraft carriers, has hit bottom accordig to Kimball. There are fewer ships, fewer desigers ad aval architects tha ever, ad the Navy is cocered about this. The aval fleet is 278 ships today with 50 more targeted over the ext Isight Special Issue

19 years, but there are major cocers about the loss of expertise i aval ship desig. So, takig these four sectors ito cosideratio, Kimball feels the outlook ad challeges are certaily ever-preset. There are great opportuities out there for aval ship desigers, ad as log as U.S. war efforts do t cotiue to erode those fuds, I thik you ll see a icrease i aval shipbuildig i the future, he said. There is also ample opportuity for medium-tosmall vessels that ca be built i medium-sized shipyards i the U.S. But, there will be virtually o more large ship costructio. There will be some activity but o great umbers certaily the cost of buildig a ship iteratioally ca be much more favorable i the Far East tha i the U.S. Ad because offshore is doig well, that sector is lookig for aval architects ad marie egieers. I ve see may istaces where people have trasferred from oe sector to aother because they see so much opportuity. The offshore area has absorbed those most iterested i chagig. Of course, we all kow the oil patch goes i major cycles, so at some poit there will be a dip i that cycle, Kimball said. Accordig to Kimball, the U.S. has six large shipyards owed ad operated by just two corporatios, aroud 30 to 40 medium-sized yards, ad hudreds of mom ad pop yards alog the coasts. The small-to-medium yards cotiue to have a large workforce i the U.S. probably as large as ay other sector i the world. I thik we do have a corer o small craft, he said. We ve got the techology ad capabilities i steel, alumium, FRP ad composites it s still a boomig idustry. Sophisticated tools Kimball keeps up-to-speed about the techologies available for aval architects ad marie egieers through his positio with SNAME. A aval architect today ca use these software tools quite effectively. I ve had discussios with academic people about some of the problems i teachig. There is a tug betwee teachig basic priciples of desig ad aval architecture versus teachig them how to use the programs. Most professors Phil Kimball feel studets should be grouded i the basic priciples before they start usig these software programs, he said. As for the future, Kimball reiterates that egieerig software has become very sophisticated ad the various modelig, computatioal fluid dyamics (CFD) ad desig programs will remai commoplace. With ope architectures, sychroized Europea ad America stadards ad itegrated software programs, the future is oe of iteroperability ad sharig. Although it s here today, I see commo operatig protocols ad a big shift toward virtual meetigs betwee owers, egieers, shipyards ad classificatio societies actually desigig more or less virtually. This global coectivity will save time ad moey ad be easier for everyoe, he said. Studet outreach I meetig the challege of tryig to keep the idustry vibrat ad attractig youg people ito the professio, Kimball says that SNAME is actively egaged i outreach to iterest youg people i grades K-12 i egieerig i geeral ad aval ad marie architecture, specifically. A few years ago SNAME started a program with the U.S. Navy called Natioal Naval Resposibility i Naval Egieerig. This icluded brochures ad videos for distributio to the geeral public to build attetio ad help itroduce the professio to future egieers. SNAME members were ecouraged to reach out to local schools through their guidace couselors, career days, ad presetatios to studets ad this has met great success. Also, SNAME recetly egaged with the Office of Naval Research (ONR) o a grat to work closely with the Massachusetts Istitute of Techology (MIT) to develop a project for studets to lear about the priciples of egieerig by buildig a model of a remotely operated vehicle (ROV). As part of the program, the schools sciece teachers receive traiig provided at semiars led by MIT to help them uderstad the priciples ad what to teach. Studets assemble the ROVs ad test them i pools ad pods across the coutry. The kids are havig a woderful time with it ad SNAME eve has a dedicated staff member who oversees the program. This employee gives presetatios o the cocept ad delivers the kits with all the parts eeded 65 parts i all to build a ROV i approximately three to five hours. The ROV program has created a tremedous amout of iterest aroud the coutry. It s ow to the poit we just ca t keep up with it, Kimball said. Part of our missio at SNAME is to advace the sciece ad egieerig of our professio through collaborative research amog members ad techology ad research programs. Ad this studet program is right ilie with our missio. SNAME has approximately 8,500 members as well as approximately 1,200 studet members studyig at 27 uiversities offerig aval architecture curriculums. Kimball thiks that the group is o the right track to help the professio i all sectors by egagig today s youth. Although schools are graduatig fewer egieers i all disciplies, job prospects are very promisig for most sectors i aval architecture ad marie egieerig. Tomorrow s graduates will have o problems gettig jobs with these types of degrees, cocluded Kimball. David Joffrio is a cotributig editor for Isight based i Hutsville, Alabama, U.S. The Marie Idustry Isight 17

20 Did you kow? Itergraph SmartMarie Eterprise Boosts Productivity Solutios maage data through the marie life cycle By Tom Szoka Advaces i the software tools available to shipbuildig, marie egieerig ad productio orgaizatios have eabled them to move forward. While these treds are likely to cotiue, they will oly produce step-wise improvemets i their vertical segmet. To achieve major productivity breakthroughs, maage the accelerated speed of chages ad provide sigificat returs o ivestmet i techology ad tools, a broader, more horizotal strategy is eeded that exteds the domai across egieerig, busiess, material maagemet, ad productio systems. Give the scope of such a task, o sigle product or vedor will likely address all the requiremets. What is eeded is a scalable, ope solutio that ca serve as a itegratio ad data repository platform such that global project iformatio caot oly be created, but maaged i a cotrolled ad itegrated maer throughout the project life cycle. Effective ERP implemetatio A growig tred i the shipbuildig idustry is for shipbuilders to implemet eterprise resource plaig (ERP) systems like SAP. Oe of the keys to effective ERP implemetatio i a shipyard is effective data exchage ad itegratio betwee ERP elemets of work plaig ad material maagemet, egieerig ad desig systems, ad productio systems like estig ad shop floor maagemet. Effective itegratio ca yield up to a 8x beefit to that derived from automatio aloe (see Referece 1, page 19). This article will outlie productio-prove methodologies for implemetig effective data exchage ad itegratio betwee ERP, egieerig ad desig, ad productio systems. Required data exchages Figure 1 outlies the effective data exchages that will be the basis of the discussio. Figure 1 Data exchages Arrows marked with 1 represet the exchage betwee materials maagemet ad desig systems. A major source for Bills of Material (BOM) i a typical shipyard is from desig tools. Arrow 1a represets that exchage. For ay effective data exchage to ERP s material maagemet system, there must be sychroizatio from the desig tool s material codes ad ERP s material codes. The arrow marked 1b represets the sychroizatio of material codes with ERP. Arrows 2 represet the exchage betwee productio applicatios like pipe fabricatio, plate estig ad profile estig. These applicatios create BOM (arrow 2a) ad require sychroizatio of material codes (arrow 2b). Arrow 3 represets publishig data from desig to productio applicatios. This exchage icludes part iformatio ad geometry for plate ad profile estig ad pipig materials ad coectivity for fabricatio. The data exchaged iherits material codes from ERP. Arrow 4 represets the publishig of top-dow early desig productio plaig iformatio to seed the work breakdow structure (WBS) i the ERP project services system. Arrow 5a represets WBS iformatio published from ERP to detailed desig tools so the detailed desig tools ca do further bottom-up assembly plaig. Arrow 5b represets WBS published from ERP to productio systems. Arrow 6 represets data exchage betwee desig tools for example, fuctioal-to-detailed desig for hull structure ad outfittig pipig. Maagig data exchages Cosider exchages 1 through 5 i the cotext of steel plates. Exchage 1a ad 3 cotai duplicate iformatio but for differet cotexts. I the case of 1a, early i the desig cycle, the exchage is primarily for refiig steel estimates. Later it provides detailed BOM iformatio i the cotext of WBS (5a). Exchage 3 cotais the same iformatio that each idividual part cotaied i 1a, plus the additioal geometric iformatio required for estig. However, the detailed bottom-up assembly iformatio exchaged i 1a is ot required durig umber 3 data exchage. 2a cotais the idividual parts from 3 plus the additioal plate ad profile stock iformatio. Three coditios exist i this sceario: Three systems (desig, productio ad ERP) share commo iformatio about steel. The shared iformatio eeds to stay cosistet. Each system eeds to add, modify ad delete its data throughout the project life cycle while maitaiig cosistecy. Data exchages for arrow 6 i Figure 1 ofte have the same coditios. A solutio to esurig data exchaged is complete, cosistet ad correct is to have a commo techical data ad documet repository as i Figure 2 with the data exchages from Figure 1 movig i ad out of the commo repository as a cetral hub rather tha poitto-poit exchages. Commo data ad documet repository characteristics I order for the commo data ad documet repository to be effective i maitaiig complete, 18 Isight Special Issue

21 materials, there must be a way of idetifyig materials that are commo to more tha oe applicatio. This is idicated by the overlaps of all three circles with material code i the middle. Itergraph ad AVEVA desig tools (Figure 4), ad SAP MM. SmartPlat Referece Data is cofigurable with supported iput/outputs i Microsoft Excel, XML, comma delimited, etc. Figure 2 Data exchages with commo repository cosistet ad correct data, it must cotai the followig characteristics: Itegratio with leadig ERP, desig ad productio tools out of the box to reduce implemetatio costs ad the time to productivity Ope ad extesible to eable exchage with data ad documets with other vedors desig ad productio tools ad i-house systems Provide chage iformatio what specifically chaged, who chaged it ad whe all i a easy-to-uderstad cotext. Material maagemet itegratios There are three parts to material maagemet itegratios from the sceario preseted i Figure 1: BOMs from desig ad productio tools cotai correct material codes for ERP (1b, 2b from Figure 1) BOM iformatio from desig ad productio tools to ERP (1a, 2a from Figure 1) BOMs cotai work breakdow cosistet with ERP (5a, 5b from Figure 1). These parts must cotai the required characteristics of: Stadard itegratios out of the box Ope ad extesible Maage chage. Material catalog sychroizatio Each piece of the itegratio triad ERP, desig ad egieerig, ad productio require differet material iformatio for their tools. Let s cosider two examples from hull ad outfittig: steel plates ad valve iformatio (Figure 3). I both examples ad for most materials, the ERP system cotais iformatio for purchasig that is ot explicitly required i desig ad productio tools. I both examples ad for most Figure 3 Steel plates ad valve material requiremets I the case of plate parts, raw stock sizes (legth ad width) are required for estig while this data is ot widely used i desig applicatios. The overlap betwee estig ad 3D CAD icludes material, grade ad thickess. No additioal iformatio is required i 3D CAD. I the case of valves, 3D iformatio is required for 3D CAD while all iformatio required for itelliget P&ID is cotaied i the overlap betwee 3D CAD ad itelliget P&ID. Examples of characteristics iclude valve types ad sizes. The Itergraph SmartMarie Eterprise offers SmartPlat Referece Data to maage ad sychroize catalogs betwee ERP ad desig ad productio systems. SmartPlat Referece Data is a Web-based applicatio that offers a sigle database catalog for all disciplies ad tools. It cotais stadard itegratios to Figure 4 AVEVA itegratio Desig ad productio BOM to ERP As discussed, exchage 1a (desig BOM to ERP) ad 3 (desig estig iformatio to estig) from Figure 1 cotai duplicate iformatio but for differet cotexts. Early i the desig cycle, exchages 1a ad 3 could be combied to provide more detailed material estimates to ERP, offer bottom-up assembly iformatio, ad provide estig iformatio without markig lies ad bevelig for pre-estig. The data from 2a is combied with 1a to provide ERP with a complete picture of parts to be cut ad where they fit i the assembly hierarchy. SmartMarie Eterprise offers the Web-based Egieerig & Procuremet Iterface (E&PI) module for SmartPlat Materials to maage BOM from various sources, cosolidatig them ad providig iformatio to procuremet. The E&PI module allows BOM verificatio ad the additio of iformatio before sedig to procuremet, icludig: Check items agaist catalog Check data cosistecy Usig rules, calculate attribute values ad adjust bulk quatities Create material summaries ito requisitio packages with attached documets ad vedor documet requests. The Marie Idustry Isight 19

22 Did you kow? E&PI cotais stadard itegratios to Itergraph ad AVEVA desig tools ad SAP. The same cliets that use SmartPlat Referece Data s AVEVA itegratio use the E&PI itegratio. The SAP itegratio allows you to preset SAP madatory fields with defaults like etwork activity code, job type, material group, geeral ledger ad more. Of the 40 E&PI implemetatios, 22 iclude iterfaces to ERP (Figure 5). Figure 5 SmartPlat Materials E&PI ad ERP itegratio The E&PI module maages chage with the followig fuctios: Sed idividual BOMs ad/or grouped materials to procuremet, for example, group by block Summarize bulk materials ito requisitio packages Maage differet phases of BOMs like estimate, fial desig ad revisios Track what came from the desig system ad what was set to procuremet Maage chages ad compare phase/revisios to items set to procuremet Aalyze chage to eable faster decisios. Work Breakdow Structure Itegratio Cosistet WBS iformatio is required for effective productio desig ad exchage of BOM iformatio. Itergraph SmartMarie Eterprise has a geeral purpose applicatio for maagig exchages of iformatio like WBS called SmartPlat Foudatio. SmartPlat Foudatio comes with a built-i data model for WBS, ad Itergraph s desig tools support exchage to/from this data model. This WBS exchage is used i productio at plat desig ad ower compaies like Chiyoda, Dow Chemical ad Air Products. Smart Itegratio Framework SmartPlat Foudatio allows data exchage i a variety of ways, but the preferred methodology is through the Smart Itegratio Framework. Smart Itegratio provides a effective way of maitaiig complete, cosistet ad correct data across software systems ad applicatios. The framework icludes ope, extesible commo schema ad documeted, supported software compoets for publishig ad retrieval of data ad documets. Implemetatios of the software compoets i the framework are called adapters. All of the Itergraph tools i the SmartMarie Eterprise like SmartMarie 3D ad SmartPlat Materials come with supported adapters that use the same software toolkit available for customers ad other software vedors. The followig features come automatically to applicatios that itegrate usig the Smart Itegratio Framework: Security ad audit gives you full history of all data chages with the ability to tur the clock back i time to see what the project looked like at ay poit. You ca cofigure the system to oly allow users with appropriate privileges to publish, retrieve, view or maipulate data. Itegrated documet maagemet with SmartPlat Foudatio s documet maagemet capabilities is available. Relatioships betwee drawigs ad documets are published with their associated data. Figure 6 shows the relatioship betwee equipmet i SmartPlat Foudatio, its drawig ad idividual graphic elemets withi the drawig. I this example, if the equipmet item also appeared i the equipmet locatio drawig that came from SmartMarie 3D, Smart Itegratio would Figure 6 Relatioships betwee data ad documets i SmartPlat Foudatio have automatically created the relatioship from the equipmet item to that drawig. Itelliget comparisos of documet revisios ca be made at the data level. Figure 7 shows a compariso of two revisios of the same schematic idicatig items that were added, modified ad deleted, all the way dow to idividual attributes o specific items. Figure 7 Comparig the data ad visual represetatio of two documet revisios Additioal value: workflow ad applets Up to this poit, we have focused o the three commo data ad documet repository characteristics that must exist for effective maagemet: Stadard itegratios out of the box Ope ad extesible Easily ad effectively maage chage. This sectio will focus o the two features that ehace must exist characteristics: workflow egie ad eablig ew applicatios. Itergraph s SmartPlat Foudatio comes with a workflow egie that allows you to model work processes which ca ehace the ability to effectively maage chage. SmartPlat Foudatio s ope architecture allows cliets to easily itegrate work processes with workflows i ERP. Figure 8 shows a graphical view of a typical workflow alog with a checklist that ca be associated with a step. This same iterface eables users ad maagers to see the status of tasks to determie where the bottleecks are ad what is behid schedule. The egie ca be cofigured to otify users of tasks to be doe withi SmartPlat Foudatio with a optio to have otificatios doe via . It also icludes the ability to attach drawigs, documets or other data objects to 20 Isight Special Issue

23 Figure 8 Workflow cofiguratio i SmartPlat Foudatio the workflow. Workflows are fully auditable as per the rest of objects, documets ad data i SmartPlat Foudatio. A additioal value is to have elemets of the SmartMarie Eterprise solutio plug ad play ito a larger eterprise applicatio to further ehace user experiece i terms of maagig chage ad seeig the bigger picture. I support of this value, SmartMarie Eterprise comes fully equipped with compoets that ca plug ito SAP s NetWeaver portal. This permits the exchage of critical data with istaces of the SAP Busiess Suite family of solutios ad is itegrated successfully with busiess fuctios exposed through the SAP NetWeaver portal. Figure 9 shows a example of a NetWeaver portal usig SmartPlat Foudatio s 3D model to avigate from idividual elemets i the 3D model to data i SAP data ad a reliability system. Figure 9 Itergraph SmartMarie Eterprise elemets playig i SAP NetWeaver portal Coclusios Implemetig ERP provides a opportuity for shipyards to trasform their busiesses A major aspect of the ERP implemetatio ad busiess trasformatio is providig effective data exchage ad itegratio betwee desig, productio ad ERP Implemetig a commo data ad documet repository is a effective way to esure data exchage is complete, cosistet ad correct For the commo data ad documet repository to be effective i maitaiig complete, cosistet ad correct data, it must cotai the followig characteristics: Itegratio with leadig ERP, desig ad productio tools out-of-the-box to reduce implemetatio costs ad reduce the time to productivity Ope ad extesible to eable exchage with data ad documets with other vedors desig ad productio tools ad i-house systems Provide iformatio that chage occurred, what specifically chaged, who chaged it ad whe, all i a easy-to-uderstad cotext SmartMarie Eterprise cotais all of the elemets required to support itegratio betwee ERP, desig ad productio ad has successfully demostrated these capabilities at cliet sites aroud the world. Referece: 1. Guidelies for Specifyig Itegrated Computer-Aided Egieerig Applicatios for Electric Power Plats, EPRI (Electric Power Research Istitute) report NP-5159M, Research Project , May 1987 Tom Szoka serves as vice presidet at Itergraph Process, Power & Marie. The Marie Idustry Isight 21

24 SmartMarie Eterprise Gai project, schedule, ad cost beefits through your complete life cycle Choose a solutio that supports cocept desig through operatios. Itergraph offers best-iclass, stadaloe applicatios for materials maagemet ad project cotrols; 3D modelig ad visualizatio; ad iformatio maagemet. Take advatage of itegratig these applicatios to gai eve greater beefits. Optimize ad streamlie your workflows Reach project completios more quickly ad more accurately at less cost. The seamless itegratio betwee Itergraph s software solutios helps you achieve data itegrity while improvig work processes. Take advatage of the ewest techology i 30 years, built i respose to the eeds of ed users like you. Share your data with project stakeholders Beefit from clear, cocise, ad complete data that you ca commuicate to maagers, vedors, suppliers, ad operators as part of a itegrated value system. Ehace data sharig of the physical iterface ad promote chage maagemet betwee cotractors, especially betwee hull ad topsides cotractors. Take advatage of our itegrated data model ad materials optimizatio to build bigger, better marie assets more quickly ad easily tha ever before. The ew wave i marie desig, costructio & operatio Itergraph, the Itergraph logo, ad SmartMarie are registered trademarks of Itergraph Corporatio Itergraph Corporatio. 6/09 PPM-US-0077A-ENG