Maritime Reporter, December, 1995

<BODY> <div> • 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 <g, it is important to grated system for transfer," Mr. He went onlto say that further efficiencies will come through enhancing thelprocesses of steel production, pVe-outfitting and automation (inyterms of creating piping systemVAa CAD/CAM). Massive Brewer Vulkan is in the midst of a re-organization which it has designed to maximize the efficiencies and promote the strengths of each of its yards. This reorganization will entail the cen- tralization of the sales and projects departments, and the partial cen- tralization of purchasing opera- tions. The Bremer Vulkan yard itself is reorganizing production processes into eight manufacturing units. Specifically, Mr. Rother said market forces such as expand- ing capacity and falling prices have allowed the company to set the goal to increase efficiency 40 per- cent by the year 1999. autoship Systems Corporation HEAD OFFICE 403 - 611 Alexander St. Vancouver BC Canada V6A 1E1 Tel 604. 254 4171 Fax 604. 254 5171 Net bpedret@autoship.com Finding its niche(s) An emphasis of the German shipbuilding industry has bj ill i liijiini iil^ mill I' I I in~ and buildin^ofirmovative specialty This principle can be seen "m the many innovative passenger vessels built by Meyer Werft, for owners in the U.S., the U.K. and Indonesia. In its history, the. has Hplivpr^rl | inlili i | III1 I ll'l|l 18 r enger vessels, about 30 car/passenger ferries, 25 livestock carriers and 45 gas tankers. The yard still has a pair of 14,800-gt passenger ships under construc- tion for Indonesia, as well as the 73,000-gt cruise ship Galaxy for Cruises. MTW^Sphiffswerft recently delivered a unique, combined pas- senger/container vessel (type PCV 400) to Shanghai Shipping (Group) Co. The ship, which is one of two ordered, is designed to carry 392 passengers and 286 TEU (8.5-ft. high containers), and was devel- y Autodesk. Gain the competitive edge! Contact Autoship today for your free demo disk and catalog Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. The Autodesk logo is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office by Autodesk, Inc. Circle 208 on Reader Service Card December, 1995 23 </div> <span id="lblContents"></span> <br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.digitalwavepublishing.com/" title="Digital Magazine">Digital Wave Publishing</a> </BODY>