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SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS Intergraph: Helping To Blaze New Trails In Shipbuilding Intergraph Corp. of Huntsville, Ala. provides an Integrated Ship Design and Production (ISDP) System which is positioned as the tool for shipbuilders to use to ensure that ship production, from initial design through final outfitting, is performed as economically, cost effectively and technically correct as possible. Intergraph's ISDP system supports the entire ship- building process, and with this software, shipbuilders are able to produce a complete 3-D ship product mod- ule that supports all engineering and manufacturing capabilities. In attempting to deliver the total solutions — rather than just one factor in the enormous equation — Intergraph's 3-D product model solution is designed to allow efficient practices such as concurrent engineering practices, which can drastically reduce production cOsts and improve accuracy. In a move designed to maximize the ease of use of the system with traditional ship design as well as typi- cal office software, Intergraph has embraced the Microsoft software environment as a central element of its next generation system. The next generation software is designed to provide clear, intuitive inter- faces which will, among other things, help to reduce training for new technical applications. The object model environment is built on Microsoft's Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) and Component Object Model (COM) technology that has been adapted by more than 400 software vendors worldwide. The company's Jupiter technology, which will be forthcoming in 1999, is an extension of the windows environment to fully utilize CAD data in a similar manner as normal office applications. Electronic Outfitting With the ISDP system, ship designers can model equipment and components concurrently with the development of the ship model. Intergraph achieves this using parametric libraries, enabling designers to model many variations within a family of parts by specifying the unique attributes of each component. A key financial benefit of this process is the minimiza- tion of redundant work when modeling distributive system components and other systems and equipment. Additionally, equipment and component models can be represented in ISDP with multiple levels of detail to match the requirements of different ship design tasks. Lighting The Path In addition to its own technical solutions, Intergraph has assumed a leading role with- in the international shipbuilding community via its participation in multi-dimensional R&D projects. Intergraph recently announced the first worldwide production implementation of an Integrated Product Data Environment (IPDE). The recently deployed system is being used by the Avondale Alliance to design and build ships for the Navy's LPD 17 Program, and IPDE will eventually be deployed on board ship. Using the Alliance's Wide Area Network and enterprise-wide data management system com- ponents, any of the 17 current Alliance sites around the U.S. and the Navy are able to retrieve relevant program information — such as access and configuration-controlled require- ments, documents, drawings, and other deliver- ables — from a distributed, but logically cen- tralized repository at the Avondale site. Using the newly deployed Web-enabled interface "LPD Navigator", authorized users can retrieve and review files in their native format. This not only promotes concurrent engineering during ship design, but also helps manage constant engineering changes. Using Intergraph's hardware and software infrastructure throughout the distributed enter- prise, the Alliance has deployed the first pro- duction release of the IPDE, which includes computer-aided design, engineering, and man- ufacturing, data management, life-cycle sup- port, and configuration management capabili- ties. Working within an Alliance-wide Integrated Process and Product Development environment, Intergraph also provides system implementation and integration services for the LPD 17 Program. According to Albert L. Bossier, chairman, president, and CEO of Avondale Industries, Inc., "What the deployment of the IPDE means for the LPD 17 Program is that there is now a "bridge" between design, production, and future management functions - as well as Alliance members. We have allowed more time for conceptual design so the on going detail design will be more accurate and the actual con- struction of the ship will be faster. All of this will result in significant cost savings for the ship throughout its life cycle." The Avondale Alliance comprises the prime contrac- tor, Avondale Industries, Inc., Intergraph Corporation, Bath Iron Works Corporation (a subsidiary of General Dynamics), and Raytheon Corporation. Intergraph is the information technology partner to the Avondale Alliance, providing the computing infrastructure for the engineering and logistics teams designing the LPD 17. The program's information technology require- ments include workstations, servers, network- ing components, shipbuilding and data management software, and system implementation services. Circle 49 on Reader Service Card SAILOR SALES AND SERVICE AGENTS ANTILLES (NETHERLANDS) Radio-Holland Caribbean N.V. • Curacao N.A. 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