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Marine Engineering browser to see the up-to-date mass prop- erties of a manufacturing block as the design evolves and make a crane selec- tion for lifting it, accordingly. Change is unavoidable. Being able to effectively manage it is what enables productivity gains across the shipyard. At the core of the Pro/ENGINEER Shipbuilding Solution is functionality that addresses each of the following dis- ciplines: Basic Hull Design: Structural Hull Design; Piping; HVAC: Electrical Systems; Machinery and Structural Out- fitting; Routed Systems Support; and Accommodations. These modules will allow the user to design in an assembly-centric design environment, creating fully paramet- ric/modifiable 3-D structural compo- nents. Based on the engineer's design intent, change propagation can be man- aged throughout all of the design mod- ules. The routed systems are specifica- tion driven and incorporate intuitive routing within the context of the overall 3-D assembly. These modules, com- bined with the existing Pro/ENGINEER Exploded view of ship compartments using the Basic Hull application — created by PTC's partner Hyundai Heavy Industries. simulation (CAE) and manufacturing (CAM) environment tools, provide the user a single, complete design solution Improving Design Efficiency Behavioral Modeling, a patent-pend- ing technology at the heart of Pro/ENGINEER, is a solution that cap- tures product-intent as a natural part of the engineering process, and then auto- matically builds virtual prototypes that satisfy these multiple objectives. What's more, because the problem and solution have been captured electronically in the design, the system can automatically solve future real engineering problems. PTC seeks to deliver improved pro- ductivity to the shipbuilding industry in the same way it revolutionized tradition- al computer aided design in other indus- tries. For example in aerospace, Pro/ENGINEER reduced airframe design by 50 percent: allowed for 97 percent first time fit, and 40 percent reduction in resources on the Global Hawk, Northrop Grumman's high alti- tude aerial vehicle. At Lockheed Mar- tin, PTC's products helped deliver the Atlas rocket program product with a 25 percent reduction in engineering change orders (ECO's), saving $10 million. These are the benefits of this new CAD architecture on complex engineering projects and PTC is bringing these types of cost advantages to the shipbuilding industry, which can employ tools like these to respond to new customer demands and market-driven forces with increased efficiency, even late in the product development cycle. A virtual tank test of Prada's Luna Rossa using behavioral modeling.
