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• Design USA • JAPAN NORWAY • GERMANY UK • FRANCE • AUSTRALASIA POLAND • CROATIA • RUSSIA you were surprised to get the entire design package so fast! That's you haven't visited our offices recently. Our Autoship systems have up our work - and they let us use all of our knowledge, experience and creativity to develop the design that best meets the needs. How do we do it now? Once we've optimized the ship numerically, we design the hull form in Autoship. It's a full NURBS-based 3-D modeling program and it's automatically faired. Throughout, we can check hydrostatics and resistance on-line with Autopower. That saves us a lot of time, and we use it to look for extra speed. Next, we define all the tanks and compartments in Autohydro. Calculating volumes and balancing the ship is easy and quick, so we can spend more time to optimize the layout. We define the structural members in Autobuild; the program automatically checks for interference and generates a bill of materials and a complete list of weights. That eliminates manual drafting, saves the yard manhours, and reduces the usual worry about weight. To save even more, we can export directly to NC cutting machines, radically reducing lofting and nesting costs. Yes, all these programs come from the same place - Autoship Systems, the world's largest developer of Windows™-based marine software. With Autoship, the entire design process, from concept to cut plates, is a smooth, seamless flow. Autoship helps us produce better designs, faster, with lower construction costs...benefits you appreciate, and our competitive edge! • Hydrostatics + Power & Resistance • Construction factor, according to Mr. Motikat: "You can't be good, you have to be perfect in today's market." Meyer Werft's ongoing successes can be attributed to many factors, but according to Mr. Motikat, much of the credit goes to tha, yards' modern covered buildjrfg facility, efficient prodjfiStion processes (including incoraroration of just-in-time delivery Jof parts) and its comprehensive jCAD/CAM system, which provides for the seamless transfer of information throughout the design and build- ing process. Mr. Motikat main- tains that the latest CAD/CAM systems provide an unrivaled flex- ibility to shipyard!, a flexibility needed to compete an today's mar- ket. "You want to, have the most advanced vessel at/delivery," which means you have tip make changes late in the game. These tools allow you to do that. I Noting that it'sjdifficult to single out only one factpr as the reason driving Meyer Werft's efficiency, Mr. Motikat does point to its inte- grated CAD/CJjM program — Catia, a program! developed for the aircraft industry and used by Boeing, Airbus and BMW, among others — as allowing the yard to be flexible in design and redesign. 'You want to| have the most "You can't be good, you have to e perfect in today's market." — Pet ir Motikat, Mey IB " (D advanced vess ularly in the c and you have t in the game, Y ble computer this. Also, "w we are buildir have an int( information Motikat said! at delivery, partic- •uise ship industry," d make changes late e said. A fast, flexi- zed system allows th the type of ship
