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Software Solutions; CAD/CAM/CAE ERAM Draws To Conclusion At DTMB For more than a year, Maritime Reporter & Engineering News has tracked the progress of a multi- national team working to develop an optimized engine room arrange- ment. This is the final article in a four-part series describing the pro- ject executed by the U.S. Navy in partnership with domestic and international shipyards, shipown- er/operators and marine equip- ment vendors. As mentioned in the first article, the project was an Engine Room Arrangement Model (ERAM) study, sponsored by the Mid-Term Strategic Sealift Technology Development Program (MTSST- DP) and orchestrated by the Shipbuilding Technology Department of the David Taylor Model Basin (DTMB). The vision of the project was to initiate a customer-focused process that would enable the U.S. ship- building industry to design and build engine rooms that would pro- mote internationally competitive commercial ships. The objectives were: • To provide a forum for U.S. shipbuilders to present their views and needs for product and process design. • Within 12 months, develop a process using Integrated Process and Product Development (IPPD) for industry use, to design engine room arrangements that provides the basis for the design of interna- tionally competitive commercial ERAM (core) team participants for the SSD#3 design were: Country U.S. U.S. U.S. U.S. Brazil U.S. U.S. U.S. U.S. U.S. Denmark Company D&P D&P DTMB Avondale Shipyard CONSUNAV D&P D&P Bath Iron Works D&P NASSCO Brix & Kamp A/S Name Richard DeVries Dan Gallagher Ben Kassel Watson Perrin, II Jorge Ribeiro Kevin Prince Frank Woronkowicz Mark Cote Jack Guilfoyle Lee Duneclift Morton Sandvej Expertise Team Leader Structure MIS Manager Arrangements & HVAC Arrangements & Piping Arrangements & Metrics Control Systems Arrangements & Piping Electrical Arrangements & Piping Arrangements & Piping CAD Team participants were: Rusty Dupont Chris Jones Gene Rice Paul Rakow Jesse Rose Bob Ramsey Jake Robinson Nancy Russell InfoTech InfoTech InfoTech D&P JJMA NAVSEA D&P NSWCCD Other resources/expertise utilized on a part-time or rotating basis included: A&T/Vector Research (man- agement consulting); Alfa Laval (fuel treatment); Allweiler (pumps); Boll & Kirch (filters and strainers); Crowley Marine (ship operator); D&P (electrical and structural engineering); Maersk Lines (ship opera- tor); and Tranter (heat exchangers). ships. • Within 24 months, to demonstrate the process by design- ing three (later increased to four) world-class engine room arrange- ments. • To achieve customer-focus and buy-in of product design. • To achieve U.S. shipbuild- ing industry-focus and buy-in of process design. • To establish baseline com- mercial ship engine room designs as benchmarks for evaluation of future government-initiated stud- ies. • To document both the prod- uct and process design with ratio- nale for use and further refine- Structural Machinery Unit utilizing standard secondary structural components; the support structure for the equipment, piping, and electri- cal cabling and components is added. ment. One medium-speed diesel (MSD) and three slow-speed diesel (SSD) engine rooms were designed in the course of two years. Each article focused on one of the four engine room design products, the evolution of applying the IPPD methodology process, and the lessons learned from each stage of the project. The first article focused on SSD#1. The SSD#1 design was a first step in achieving the project goals, which were to develop prod- uct (ship) designs that could be built with a construction schedule reduction of 40 percent (down to 18 months) and acquisition cost Structural Machinery Unit with Secondary Support Structure. Partial Grand Unit fO^V1 tyo*" Current SSD3 Fuel Oil Piping Arrangement 48 Maritime Reporter/Engineering News