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The Eighth FORAN Users Meeting (FORUM 2014) took place June 11-13, 2014 in the Parador de la Granja, Sego- via, and when it was over the organizers proclaimed it a great success, recording the highest number of participants ever.

On Thursday June 12, Rafael de

Góngora, General Manager of SENER

Marine Business Unit, welcomed the attendees and encouraged an open shar- ing of experience in using the FORAN

System.

Miguel Ángel Rojí, from Navantia (Spain), presented about the optimiza- tion of the design and production in the

Spanish shipbuilding group of reference.

Following was Kevin Duckworth, from

BAE Systems Maritime Submarines (UK), who discussed the optimization of FORAN in the Royal Navy´s Succes- sor Program (nuclear submarine deter- rence), particularly about the integration with the Product Lifeclycle Management (PLM) tool. The fi rst conference session fi nished with Igor Shaposhnikov, from

Severnoye Design Bureau (Russia) with a lecture about the FORAN integra- tion with a PLM tool already developed by the design offi ce.

The second session started with Alek- sey Shadrov, from Vyborg Shipyard, and Sergey Tolstoguzov, from Design

Group Ricochet (Russia), with a shared speech about the implementation in the shipyard of the consecutive FORAN versions from 30 to 70, and about their recent success in the development of a fl oating dock to put in the water a new series of icebreakers. Jim McLauchlan, from BAE Systems Naval Ships (UK), continued with a presentation about the challenges of the use of FORAN, espe- cially the newly developed module for the P&I diagrams in the Type 26 new de- stroyers program. Prabjot Singh Chopra, from SeaTech Solutions (Singapore), spoke about the required functional- ity for the early design stage from their perspective as ship designers, and fi nally

Ricardo Rozados, from Abance (Spain), demonstrated with precise fi gures the benefi ts of an outfi tting module-oriented design and the way to achieve it with

FORAN.

At Thursday’s formal dinner, Verónica

Alonso on behalf of SENER gave the

FORAN Photography and Screen Cap- ture Awards to Babcock Marine (United

Kingdom) and Asmar (Chile).

On Friday, June 13, Juan Pablo Soto of Asmar (Chile) gave a presentation on the use of FORAN in the calculation of the electronic equipment precise po- sitioning to minimize interferences. He was followed by Yiqi Song from CS-

DDC (China Development and Design

Center). Fernando Alonso from SENER then spoke about the integration of FO-

RAN with a PLM solution developed by SENER, and the fi nal session ended with a presentation from Mon Seob Cho, from SENER Korea, delivering a paper on the options to customize FORAN to the demands of the Eastern shipyards.

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