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- Scanner Gives Peterson Builders Edge In Navy Shipbuilding Project Maritime Reporter, Apr 1985 #98
Peterson Builders, Inc. (PBI), of Sturgeon Bay, Wis., had a tall order with a tight deadline: build a series of ships for the US Navy and provide the entire set of construction drawings in digital data form.
The problem was that the drawings had been created manually, and re-creating them in digital format would require thousands of hours of computer work by experienced CAD operators. More than 750 assembly drawing sheets would have to be converted to a CAD database in less than eight months. Using conventional digitizing approaches would impose a severe strain on PBI's CAD resources and staff.
George O'Keefe, PBI's CAD/ CAM manager, went looking for an innovative solution to the drawingconversion problem. He selected Skantek, Inc., of Warren, N.J.—a new firm looking to "beta test" its new product, the SK-1010 digitizing scanner. Skantek needed an initial test installation, outside its own facilities, for the new SK-1010.
Mr. O'Keefe approached his challenge pragmatically: he reasoned that manual drawings had been sufficient documentation in the past, and that similar-quality data in digital format would yield savings to organization, distribution and incorporation of changes into the drawings. Mr. O'Keefe set his data-conversion goal as the exact duplication of the existing drawings.
"What we wanted," Mr. O'Keefe said, "was a device that would give us an accurate, one-to-one representation within the CAD system of the original, hand-rendered drawing." He looked for some straight answers from the people at Skantek.
The SK-1010 system was explained.
No commercially-available software technology can transform manually-prepared drawings into perfectly accurate computer files.
But Mr. O'Keefe learned that the SK-1010 could help make the job of large-document conversion to his computer database easier, more productive and less costly.
As an experienced professional, Mr. O'Keefe recognized the scanner's value as a tool that could help PBI complete the Navy contract and make the drawing conversions without cost overruns or delays. PBI ordered that the scanner be delivered and, prior to its arrival, established a second shift for operation of the CAD system.
With a second shift, newly-hired CAD operators could begin the process immediately. Upon arrival of the SK-1010, the scanning began, and technicians could begin editing the scanned files without interfering with PBI's regular CAD activities.
Installation of the SK-1010 scanner went smoothly. "It was the easiest installation of CAD equipment I've been involved with," said Mr.
O'Keefe. And the SK-1010 proved to be easy enough to operate that most of the drawings could be scanned by first-shift clerical workers.
"In two hours it was up and running, and within three hours, we'd trained some operators. We were scanning drawings that same evening," added Mr. O'Keefe.
After scanning a drawing, the optically- read data is converted from raster to vector format, written to tape, and readied for transfer to the CAD system. Once the converted drawing is loaded onto the CAD system, it goes through an editing process.
The number of steps necessary to complete this process vary, depending on the quality and density of the original drawing.
Working closely with the Skantek team, Peterson Builders has developed its own techniques and procedures to fully utilize the converted data on their own CAD system. By using the scanned data as a template, PBI's CAD operators are readily able to separate acceptable data from those data that require further attention. Mr. O'Keefe says that, even in cases where the density and quality of scanned drawings requires extensive editing, the SK-1010 scanning process continues to be cost-effective. Once a drawing is fed into the scanner, the scanning requires little active supervision, thus further reducing personnel costs.
Having proven to Peterson Builder's satisfaction that the SK-1010 is capable of helping convert large engineering drawings to CAD files, Mr. O'Keefe is now seeking more applications for the scanner. One potential application he already has identified is the capture of design sketches and graphics for technical reports.
For Skantek's part, the PBI project provided the challenge it was looking for, to test the SK-1010's capabilities. The typical PBI design drawing is 30 inches wide, 12 feet long, averages three sheets per drawing and is comprised of many densely packed lines and symbols.
Once scanned, each drawing at first required 10 to 20 hours of editing on the CAD system. This was quickly reduced to an average of two to three hours per drawing sheet on all drawings, including A-, B-, C-, and D-size and roll-type documents. Before the SK-lOlO scanner was introduced into the process, re-creation time for each roll drawing averaged 44 hours.
For PBI, the SK-1010 is just what the Navy ordered. Peterson Builders has found that the Skantek device gives it a technological edge, helping PBI to meet the Navy's requirements without having to expand its CAD staff.
For free literature on the SK-1010 digitizing sanner, Circle 3 on Reader Service Card
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- Skantek Announces SK-401, An OCR Software Technology Breakthrough Maritime Reporter, May 15, 1985 #34
—Literature Available After a year of intensive development, Skantek Corporation, Warren, N.J. has announced the SK- 401, the first commercially available optical character recognition (OCR) software to decipher and reproduce hand-lettered characters on engineering drawings. The first step in the
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- Butterworth Systems Receives IMCO Approval Maritime Reporter, Oct 1978 #30
tank bottoms, where it will be submerged in the cargo. Also approved for fixed-in-place a p p l i c a t i o n s are the BUTTERWORTH K and SK tank cleaning machines. These twin-nozzle machines clean tanks in the familiar and well-proven "ball of twine" pattern. The SK unit has an effective clea
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- Abex-Denison Div. Appoints Feierabend VP-Manufacturing Maritime Reporter, Mar 1977 #18
Erich H. Feierabend has been named vice president of manufacturing for Abex Corporation, Denison Division, according to an announcement by B.R. Horne, division president. Mr. Feierabend will be located at the division's headquarters in Columbus, Ohio, and will be responsible for all United States
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- Butterworth Tank Washing Machines Ordered For Eight New Product Carriers Maritime Reporter, Jul 15, 1981 #59
of 506 Butterworth® tank cleaning machines. Included are 300 Butterworth P-60 machines that will be deck-mounted, plus 206 fixed-in-place Butterworth SK units to be installed at various locations within the cargo tanks. The product carriers, each approximately 29,990 dwt, are owned by Greek interests
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- Martin Named President Of Korea Gulf Oil Co. Maritime Reporter, Feb 15, 1977 #25
B.R. Martin has been named president of Korea Gulf Oil Company, according to R.W. Baldwin, president of Gulf Refining & Marketing Company (GORAM). Mr. Martin replaces S.K. Mc- Walter, who is returning to Gulf Oil Canada, Ltd. He will represent Gulf Oil Corporation in all aspects of its business in
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- Butterworth To Exhibit At Marintec China '81 Maritime Reporter, Nov 15, 1981 #25
on display, including the SFC 5 BW Oil/Water Separator, which provides "clean" water with less than one part per million of oil, and the P-60, MP, K and SK tank cleaning machines. Not on display, but represented graphically, will be the SCAMP® Underwater Hull Cleaning machine, and the Marine LIQUABLASTER ®
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- Tech Talk: GHS Adds 'Seakeeping' Maritime Reporter, Jan 2018 #50
offers users the functionality to configure highly-capable onboard loading computers based on the proven GHS calculation engine. The new GHS SeaKeeping “SK” module builds upon this existing foundation to give users even more functionality, all while staying within the GHS framework. Before GHS SeaKeeping
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- Ammonia-powered Tug Conversion Underway Marine News, Apr 2023 #26
MIT PhD alumni. To date, the company has raised $209 million in funding, including $139 million announced on March 22 through a Series B-1 fundraising led by SK Innovation with global investors such as Temasek, Korea Zinc, Saudi Aramco’s Aramco Ventures, AP Ventures, MOL PLUS, Yanmar Ventures, Zeon Ventures
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- Fisheries Technology for Resource Management Marine Technology, May 2014 #36
of using Fish Selector are to increase the value of the catch, avoid discard of fish and increase fishing efficiency by helping with decision making for the skipper of selecting a fishing area. In addition to benefitting the commercial fisheries companies the marine research institutes may find scientific value
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- Integrated Bridge Allows Cutting Edge Design Maritime Reporter, Jan 2002 #36
, Samsung and Daewoo for tanker operators; Shell Tankers (U.K.); BP Amoco (U.K.); ALSOC (Australia); Bergesen (Norway); Osprey x 2 (Singapore); and SK Shipping (Korea). KMSS will provide Radar/ARPA, ECDIS- electronic chart display system, MBB- voyage data recorder, UAIS- universal automatic identification
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- NORWEGIAN MARINE EQUIPMENT & SHIPPING Maritime Reporter, May 1991 #30
in single vessels, underwritten by a call capital system. New Ship Management Class One of the three major ship classification societies, Det norske Veritas (DnV), headquartered in Hovik, a suburb of Oslo, has classed about 4,500 ships or 14 percent of the world's tonnage that is now in service
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April 2023 - Marine News page: 26the maritime industry as stakeholders explore on March 22 through a Series B-1 fundraising led by options to decarbonize vessel operations. Green ammonia SK Innovation with global investors such as Temasek, 26 | MN April 202
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September 2022 - Marine News page: 23Feature Shipyards sk anyone working in the shipyard business, we added a fourth leg. Our yacht business is one leg of the and they’ll tell you balancing yacht, commer- stool, commercial is another leg, navy repair is another and cial and government vessel repair work con- new construction is the fourth.
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November 2020 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 53as early as possible. The Authors Marlantes & Kim Kyle E. Marlantes (top) is a partner at Creative Systems, Inc., where he created the GHS SeaKeeping “SK” Module and led the development of the new DYNSTAB extension to meet the IMO SGIS guidelines. Dr. Peter Kim is a Senior Principal Engineer at ABS
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November 2020 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 4and ? nancial Lars Fischer is Managing Director, Soft- ative Systems, Inc., where he created issues in maritime. ship Data Processing. the GHS SeaKeeping “SK” Module 4 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • November 2020 MR #11 (1-17).indd 4 11/10/2020 11:40:31 A
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October 2020 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 10active duty. The ratings to be held by these women were over 12,000 different encoded radio messages. She was also limited to yeoman (YN), storekeeper (SK), hospital corps- a star government witness at a number of smugglers’ trials, man (HM), photo-journalist (PA), dental technician (DT), including the
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June 2019 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 10, and went on to complete an award of the ? rst exploration licenses remarkable. MSc and then a PhD in petroleum tech- in 1965, and the discovery of Eko? sk in There are many engineers who have nology and applied geophysics, also at 1969, using Norway’s ? rst subsea wells, seen through that journey,
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Sep/Oct 2018 - Maritime Logistics Professional page: 24PORT LOGISTICS The competition, however, have other entry points in the UK.” for the large ships. That’s why the biggest lines choose Gdansk as Indeed, the company’s competitors tend to access the UK market last port for overseas (journeys). Gdynia can’t accommodate the from North and South with longer
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September 2018 - Marine News page: 59emission shock-mitigating boat matting tion is automatically accessed. This running for marine vessels, Volvo product called Shock Defender. also means SK requires few input Penta has unveiled a hybrid concept Leveraging proven energy absorb- parameters, offering ease of use. for its IPS propulsion system
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August 2018 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 50Remontowa Ship Repair Yard in Gdan- shape that expands the tanks’ capacity to heat the feedwater for the UST plant, million standard cubic feet of gas per sk will be delivering the second of two achieving signi? cant improvements in day. It will be moored to a jetty off the converted 18,747GT passenger
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January 2018 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 50forms, which pabilities by adding a couple new com- directly accessed or used, so further sim- ary element method algorithm, which include Pierson-Moskowitz, Bretschnei- mands and existing geometry ? les (.GF) pli? cations had to be made. avoids the geometric pitfalls of confor- der (General, Narrow-band
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March 2017 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 48Combustion Engineering Expert VOLCANO sK>EKŽ??>lEÐ?Ž|sEG?Ð?ŽE?Ðl?AYE?Žu?O ŽYIŽ?Y|sŽ?ŽwGYl?Ð?G?G?|AOŽY dA?GEŽYŽ??G?ÐG?sGYÐG?ŽY,&K?'A?ÐŽwd??OŽYd??YG?IŽ?DA?sYG???G? 'A?d??YG?IŽ?sYE??l?sAu??GAYEhul?A?uŽ?EK?d??YG?IŽ?sYE??l?sAu???G? 'A?Žwd??OŽYhYslIŽ?>E'&?GuGE|G??Gu
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August 2016 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 54in the USA ment, engine controls as well as the sup- Equipped with a full range of equip- ply of associated spare parts. Goltens ment and facilities, highly skilled staff, has now joined N-KOM’s growing list and the completed repair quality control Fast Start in Houston of subcontractors along with Wartsila
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July 2016 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 8TRAUTHWEIN, EDITOR & ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER Vice President, Sales Rob Howard [email protected] Web Editor Eric Haun [email protected] Web Contributor sk anyone who knows me, Sa powered by Cummins diesel engines, Michelle Howard [email protected] I love to eat ? sh. Most any featured on page 40
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May 2015 - Marine News page: 8BY THE NUMBERS Perspectives on the Changing Risks for Offshore Well Blowouts • In the aftermath of the Macondo MC252 well blowout What kinds of environmental impacts would there in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010, public concern about be with another blowout? What about sensitive future offshore
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August 1977 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 27— 4" discharge. RECONDITIONED WORTHINGTON FIRE PUMP 1 ? UBI — 3" — 450 GPM — 125 lbs — 1750 RPM. MOTOR: 50 HP — 230 VDC — 178 amps — type SK — frame 133 — compound •— 1310/1750 — with magnetic starter. LUBE OIL SERVICE PUMP Quimby-Rotex — size 6D — 500 GPM © 70 lbs — 6"x6" flange
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August 1977 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 26. 120 VDC — 1800 RPM. TUR- BINE: M-20-EH — 20 lbs dry & saturated — 25" vacuum. 7283 RPM. GEAR: 7283/1800. GENERATOR: 60 KW — 120 VDC — 500 amps — SK — stab, shunt wound. UNUSED 500 KW DELAVAL-WESTINGHOUSE GEARED TURBO GENERATOR UNUSED 60 KW 120 VDC M-20-EH (Located West Coast) AH&D Model
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September 1977 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 62AND FITTINGS—Hydraulic—Safety Flanges American-Darling Valve, Div. of American Cast Iron Pipe Co., P.O. Box 2727, Birmingham, Ala. 35202 Flexitallic Gasket Co., 5 Linden Street, Camden, N.J. 08102 Marine Moisture Control Co., 449 Sheridan Blvd., Inwood, N.Y 11696 Mechonicol Marine Co., 900 Foirmount
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September 1977 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 30GENERATORS 1962 DeLaval. Very little use. Completely preserved with ro- tors and diaphragms crated JL, J- -JL-VJi. separately. TURBINE: DeLaval SK'i * to 585 PSI — 840"TT — 6-stage — 6391 RPM — class CD. Also suitable 440 lbs — 740°TT — 25" vac. GEAR: 6391/1200 RPM. GENERATOR: Allis-Chalmers
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November 1977 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 56until it is set. Toughness and long-term durability are its outstanding properties, which is why it has been chosen for such arduous appli- cations as skateboard wheels. For more information about Sea Cushion, write to Seaward International, 6269 Lees- burg Pike, Falls Church, Va. 22044, attention
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November 1977 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 40120 VDC — 1800 RPM. TUR- BINE: M-20-EH — 20 lbs dry & saturated — 25" vacuum. 7283 RPM. GEAR: 7283/1800. GENERATOR: 60 KW — 120 VDC — 500 amps — SK — stab, shunt wound. UNUSED 500 KW DELAVAL-WESTINGHOUSE GEARED TURBO GENERATOR GENERATOR: Westinghouse 500 KW — 120/240 volts DC — 2080 amps
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January 1978 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 26120 VDC — 1800 RPM. TUR- BINE: M-20-EH — 20 lbs dry & saturated — 25" vacuum. 7283 RPM. GEAR: 7283/1800. GENERATOR: 60 KW — 120 VDC — 500 amps — SK — stab, shunt wound. UNUSED 500 KW DELAVAL-WESTINGHOUSE GEARED TURBO GENERATOR GENERATOR: Westinghouse 500 KW — 120/240 volts DC — 2080 amps
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August 1978 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 28. 120 VDC — 1800 RPM. TUR- BINE: M-20-EH — 20 lbs dry & saturated — 25" vacuum. 7283 RPM. GEAR: 7283/1800. GENERATOR: 60 KW — 120 VDC — 500 amps — SK — stab, shunt wound. 500 KW DELAVAL-WESTINGHOUSE GEARED TURBO GENERATOR GENERATOR: Westinghouse 500 KW — 120/240 volts DC — 2080 amps — 1200
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September 1978 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 34120 VDC — 1800 RPM. TUR- BINE: M-20-EH — 20 lbs dry & saturated — 25" vacuum. 7283 RPM. GEAR: 7283/1800. GENERATOR: 60 KW — 120 VDC — 500 amps — SK — stab, shunt wound. UNUSED 500 KW DELAVAL-WESTINGHOUSE GEARED TURBO GENERATOR lasfiU MM GENERATOR: Westinghouse 500 GP^Jii. f KW — 120/240
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September 15, 1978 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 14C.O.W., should bring their tank cleaning problems to Butterworth Systems. ..the leader in tank cleaning for 48 years. BUTTERWORTH® K and SK machines are not only the world's leading portable tank cleaning machines, but fixed in BUTTERWORTH® K Machine place deep within cargo tanks