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itage of yards surveyed with presently installed mned drafting software, such as AutoCad, station or oyee # Presently Plan To Expand/

Use Replace 500 63% 13% 1,000 75% 75% )+ 88% 38% intage of yards surveyed with presently installed inned piping, HVAC or electrical design software, as CadMatic, CSA or RAMP: loyee # Presently Plan To Expand/

Use Replace 500 25% 50% •1,000 25% 25% 10+ 50% 63% entage of yards surveyed with presently installed lanned CAM facilities, such as numericalcutting or )tic welding: ployee # Presently Plan To Expand/

Use Replace 1-500 25% 25% 1-1,000 100% 100% 00+ 88% 0% )TE: The survey, conducted in mid-1994 entailed lied surveys ana follow-up telephone calls. Of the yards contacted, 20 yards — or 37 percent — d.) fluanc* On Engineering For Production

Using CAD/CAM to enhance the •fectiveness of engineering for pro- uction is not a new idea. The jmmon thread between integrated

AD/CAM and engineering for pro- uction is the concept of integra- ion. Given this common thread, he degree of influence that inte- rated CAD/CAM systems have on ngineering for production meth- dologies may thus be measured by he ability of integrated CAD/CAM o help realize the integration goals if engineering for production.

Union Naval de Levante, a pri- vately owned shipyard founded in

L924 and headquartered in /alencia, Spain, is a strong example )f integrated CAD/CAM signifi- cantly enhancing a yard's engineer- ing for production methodology.

The yard, which is presently using the FORAN integrated CAD/CAM system, was introduced to comput- ers in 1984 — and there has been significant growth of CAD/CAM every year. Since implementing and enhancing CAD/CAM, the yard has seen: • A dramatic decrease in design time (e.g. eight people working six months versus 21 people working 18 months to develop steel construction drawings); •A decrease in engineering time (e.g. in carrying out hydrostatic calculations by computer instead of by hand); • The ability to quickly conduct "what-if" studies at the early stages of the project; and •The ability to automate NC cutting of nested piece parts from steel frames. A particular area where

CAD/CAM has been implemented at the shipyard, with a corresponding influence on engineering for production, is piping design and production.

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