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Improve Delivery Time and Cost for ship production...

Users of TRIBON have reported major improvements in delivery time and costs for ship production.

For example, one major European shipyard has improved order to delivery time to 18 months for a first of class feeder container ship and 7 months for ships in a series.

In another case, the use of TRIBON has given a two months earlier delivery time and a 20% reduction in design manhours for specialised cargo vessels. These are just two of many examples from our customers. The major reasons given by our customers for these improvements are as follows.

From Initial Design to Production

TRIBON is a design and information system created to fit the specific bus- iness needs of the shipbuilding industry.

TRIBON applications cover the com- plete process from initial design to generation of production information so data need only be entered once.

TRIBON is an Expert system

Shipbuilding knowledge accumulated over 25 years is implemented in TRIBON. This means that the system allows designers to be extremely productive creating designs. In additon TRIBON has customisable standards which allow a customer to build in the rules that are used in production at his own site so that designs are tailored to use the available production facilities in the most economical way.

All information stored in one common Product Information Model

The core of the TRIBON system is the Product Information Model which is used to integrate all stages and disciplines of design and build strategy work and make them concurrently available to all designers and planners. This shortens the overall process by all- owing different types of designers and planners to work in parallel. yPftfjf*" Automatic Production Information

TRIBON will automatically generate production infor- mation for a design in accordance with the build

A strategy and the customisable shipbuilding expertise

I ji m built into the system.

The types of machinery supported by TRIBON are constantly expanding with improvements in shipyard •Bjjfcy^ facilities and robot technology. KCS is heavily involved

I in a series of yard modernisation projects in Europe,

I Korea, and Japan where the use of TRIBON is critical 4jFg to control new equipment being installed and gaining gip§l cost savings in production. with the I • Member of the Celsius Group

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Kockums Computer Systems

RIBON

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KCS operates worldwide. We place a high importance on continuing sup- port of our customers, so to complement the support ser- vices of our head office in

Sweden, KCS local offices have 1been established in China,

Germany, Japan, Russia, South

Korea, Singapore, UK and USA. than a third of world mildlng orderbook

Design and information systems from

KCS are in service at more than 230 shipbuilders and design engineers offices all over the world. Today these companies carry out the design and production for more than a third of all ships in the complete world shipbuilding orderbook. This large base of custom- ers are continually creating new ideas and projects to improve the TRIBON system.

The KCS Family Concept

The TRIBON system is developed in close cooperation with our customers in what we call the KCS Family

Concept. The Family Concept is a framework for communicating and working together with our customers.

Ideas and plans are exchanged regularly in a number different forum such as Partner Meetings, Reference

Groups, Workshops, and Users

Meetings. For example, Users Meetings are organised once a year to give customers from all over the world the chance to get together and discuss system development and improvement. At the 1995 meeting there were 205 customers from 26 countries. |7yf Please send me further information l!_J about TRIBON Shipbuilding system.

To Kockums Computer Systems AB, P .0. Box 50555,

S-20215 Malmo, Sweden. Phone +46 40 10 34 55, I

Telefax + 46 40 97 8415. * s»

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IIW Begins Fabrication On Aegis

Flight IIA Destroyers

Bath Iron Works Corporation

BIW) has begun fabrication on the irst Aegis Flight IIA variant of the

Vrleigh Burke-class guided missile lestroyers. This ship, named Oscar iustin (DDG 79) after a marine who eceived the Congressional Medal of

Honor for giving his life in Vietnam, is the 29th of 57 ships in this class currently planned by the Navy. As lead yard for design and construc- tion of the Burke destroyers, BIW has received contracts for 19 destroyers and has delivered nine of these ships. Oscar Austin is the shipyard's 16th DDG to begin fabri- cation. Construction of this ship will continue over the next two years, with launch scheduled for

September 1998, and delivery for

February 2000.

The most significant difference between the Flight IIA variant and other destroyers being is the addi- tion of twin helicopter capability.

This change requires dual helicopter hangars above the main deck, addi- tional accommodations for air crew, aircraft handling systems and ammunition storage facilities to allow embarked helicopters to be deployed with the ship.

Internal changes in the Flight IIA ship have also been incorporated.

Approximately 30 percent of the ship has been redesigned to upgrade many of the structural, piping, elec- trical and ventilation systems and components. In addition, many tra- ditional MILSPEC components have been replaced with commercial off- the-shelf (COTS) components to reduce costs.

Another significant change involves the Flight IIA ship design process. For what is reportedly the first time ever, a U.S. Navy surface combatant design has been devel- oped almost exclusively using 3-D computer aided design (CAD). This technology reportedly allows BIW designers to visualize the product on the computer screen, using live walk-throughs" and demonstrations

In the way of general cargo trade, the Port is suffering from the slow- down of the economics in continental

Europe. The imports of container- ized products increased by only .6 percent, whereas exports increased by 5.1 percent. The forecasts for the second half are expected to be more favorable, as all the containerized shipowners serving the Far East have opted to use the Port of Le

Havre.

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For more information on Bath Iron Works

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