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ESG FORAN launch tive to U.S. Shipbuilding techniques and has made modi- FORAN provides for the ability to look at the Model ? cations and/or improvements to their software to accom- while it’s being developed not only by a Designer, but also modate this need.” by Naval Architects or whoever may be assigned to check,

While ESG is using FORAN in several projects now, correct, and suggest modi? cations or improvements to the it also owns other software licenses of other software and Model. He explained further, “This is achieved either by will continue to use all of them as necessary to maintain creating an export within FORAN and checking it through its engineering schedules and workload demand. But the a FORAN viewer, or by viewing the same database as was real utility for ESG in the case of their most recent launch developed.” This allowed Eastern to get Engineers and revolved around the fact that the yard received a regulatory Naval Architects involved in the process of developing the design package with minimal details and extensive areas Model, not waiting until the assemblies/arrangements are to be de? ned and re? ned during the 3D development of completed, and waiting for the outputs to be check.

the model. This task, using FORAN, was accomplished For their part, Sener continues to collaborate closely with not only with experienced 3D modelers, but also allowed ESG and at the same time, continues its own efforts in- the Naval Architect to be part of the modeling process. ternally to improve FORAN in order to help shipbuilding

According to Berthold, this reduced the Modeling Phase stakeholders to develop better projects and to be more com- time considerably. petitive. That process, at ESG, is already well underway.

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