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www.maritimeprofessional.com Maritime Professional 59 TTechnical Towards the Integrated Shipyard by Stéphane NeuvégliseSOFTWARE Today?s shipbuilding industry relies on the technical capabilities and pro-ductivity of a wide range of engineering and design software tools. But technol- ogy developers like AVEVA are now increasingly focusing their efforts as much on the integration of these tools as on their individual capabilities. Recent additions and enhancements to theAVEVA Marine solution clearly show this and highlight the inexorable trend towards greater integration, both in data and in the working methods that the software supports. There are two aspects to information integration: integrating the data used in engineering and design, and integrating the much wider variety of information used across an entire enterprise. Bothare related of course, and AVEVA has powerful technologies that address both. First, it is important to explain Integrated Engineering & Design (IE&D).INTEGRATED ENGINEERING & DESIGN (IE&D)AVEVA Marine has been from the outset, technology integration, formedfrom a powerful best-in-class shipbuild- ing solution and its counterpart for theplant industries. As a result, most of AVEVA?s applications now serve both industries and AVEVA Marine provides many valuable functionalities not previ- ously available to shipbuilders; for example AVEVA Global, which sup- ports robust multi-site project collabo- ration. The foresight in this ground- breaking integration is now clear to see, as new projects such as FLNG are con- ceived which combine plant and marine disciplines into a single complex design.Turning to the latest AVEVA Marine releases ? the 12.1 product series ? wesee valuable across-the-board enhance- ments in information sharing. Extendedlanguage support and upgraded datasharing functions now make globally- distributed projects even easier to inte- grate and manage. An enhanced report generating tool is not only easier to use,it enables reporting across a muchwider range of engineering and designdata. And a standard model library makes it easier to reuse common design elements.Integration of schematic engineering data into the common project databasehas now been greatly enhanced, making it accessible by all disciplines, includ-ing 3D design, while retaining controlby the originating discipline.Interestingly, schematic system design can now be carried in the context of the vessel?s general arrangement, a power- ful aid to productivity on complex, densely-packed designs such as war- ships, as a system designer can positionitems in their approximate physicallocation at the outset.AVEVA Marine already includes applications for integrating work processes with third-party applications,for example efficiently converting hull structure into an optimal mesh forfinite-element analysis, or importing 3D models of equipment items from a ven- dor?s 3D CAD system. To these we have added AVEVA Surface Manager, which enables efficient import or export of surface definitions, supporting a wide choice of specialist surface design tools and the controlled export of defined areas of the hull form to sub- contractors, protecting a designbureau?s intellectual property. This is more than just an interface though; it is ?intelligent?, enabling errors or surface inaccuracies to be corrected duringimport and surfaces to be defined in the most efficient manner to ensure the best (Photo: Aveva)A typical hull module selected usingAVEVA Design Reuse. The copied module can be freely edited for its new purpose while retaining full associativity between its parts. MP #4 (50-64):MP Layouts 11/8/2011 2:33 PM Page 59