Maritime Reporter, September 1997

<BODY> <div> Ingalls To Invest $25 Million To Revamp Facilities month, and work on the new pro- duction bay will start in mid-1998. For more information on Ingalls Circle 14 on Reader Service Card Pictured is an aerial view of Ingalls Shipbuilding division of Litton Industries, high- lighting elements of the $25 million facilities TRIBON Vitesse TRIBON Vitesse creates a new era in ship design - the Rule-based Automated Design era. Litton Industries announced plans to invest $25 million in a major facilities program at Ingalls Shipbuilding — the company's shipbuilding and marine produc- tion operations. "The investment will enhance Ingalls' already extensive capacity for naval ship construction and modernization, and will signifi- cantly broaden our shipyard's capability to produce commercial vessels and offshore drilling rigs and production platforms," said Ingalls President Jerry St. Pe. The facilities program will involve two major projects. One will be the expansion of the com- pany's floating drydock, used to both launch and retrieve vessels and marine structures. The other project will be the con- struction of an additional produc- tion bay that will be dedicated to the building of drilling rigs, pro- duction platforms and other struc- tures for the offshore industry. Engineering work for both phases of the program is currently under- way. The drydock expansion will include adding a 160-ft. (49 m) detachable section to the ship- yard's existing drydock, bringing the expanded dock to 800 ft. (244 m) in length. Production of the new dock sec- tion is expected to commence next m MING NEXT MONTH IN j iWR/CM• • • OUTSTANDING WORKBOATS 01 1997 September, 1997 TRIBON Vitesse will enable the user to write his own Vitesse programs to control design development according to his own rules with direct access to the TRIBON Product Infor- mation Model and all the functionality of the TRIBON applications. TRIBON Vitesse has been developed in close co-opera- tion between KCS and the French shipyard Chantiers de I'Atlantique in St. Nazaire. Vitesse is a French word meaning speed. TRIBON Vitesse will lead to a step change in ship design efficiency through rule-based automated design for different types of structural arrangements and outfit layouts. TRIBON Vitesse can be applied from the smallest design standard right up to major sections of ships. The TRIBON Shipbuilding system covers all aspects of design from initial design to production, including advanced features from the assembly phase of ship production and materials control. Design and information systems from KCS are installed at more than 260 sites in 38 countries in Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America. Efficiency (Design and Production Information) Rule-based Automated Design Manual Processes NC Systems I960 1970 1980 1990 1997 During 1996 a total of 422 ships were delivered which were built using the TRIBON system. ' Member of the Celsius Group IACS Kockums Computer Systems Please send me further information about TRIBON Vitesse To Kockums Computer Systems AB, P.O. Box 50555, S-202 15 Malmo, Sweden. Phone +46 40 10 34 55, Telefax +46 40 97 84 15, E-mail: market@kcs.se Name- Title Company- Address _ Postal code and Town Country MR/9 49 Circle 204 on Reader Service Card </div> <span id="lblContents"></span> <br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.digitalwavepublishing.com/" title="Digital Magazine">Digital Wave Publishing</a> </BODY>