Plant for shipyards

Simulation, visualization and optimization of shipbuilding processes

Benefits Summary • Optimized space and Tecnomatix® Plant Simulation from Siemens PLM Software enables crane utilization the simulation and optimization of complex shipyard production systems and • Advanced assembly processes. Using Plant Simulation, you can optimize material flow, resource sequence scheduling and space utilization as well as the logistics for all levels of the shipyard from • Increased planning safety scheduling individual welding activities up to the complete ship assembly. and accuracy • Higher service reliability • Improved logistics and material management with clarity of complex processes • Safer investment decisions • Ability to better decide make/ buy issues • Ability to more accurately predict delivery times • Ability to reduce the risk of product failure or delay The challenges of today’s shipyard User case industry are • Decreased throughput complicated by time from 60 to 52 days having to deliver (-14 percent) increasingly • Decreased direct labor on the complex products in panel line from 8,280 to a highly competitive 6,600 hours (-20 percent) marketplace. Shipyards now face Features the need to build • Simulation of complex more ships in a production systems and shorter time and to control strategies offer services at compet­itive prices and with short delivery times. Plant • Object-oriented, hierarchical Simulation is an event driven simulation tool that helps shipyards handle models of shipyards, these needs easier and provide computer-supported answers to major encompassing business, questions such as when and where to develop what products and with logistic and production resources limited by availability and restricted materials. processes Plant Simulation is a simulation-based and modular toolset with proven benefits for optimizing production and logistics in the shipbuilding industry, allowing the graphical representation of parts and resources and interfacing

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Features continued to database systems. This toolset enables cannot be accounted for when traditional • Graphs and charts for you to model the employment of available planning tools are used. In addition, analyzing throughput, shift calendars with customer-specific the visualization does not offer 3D resources and bottlenecks user-interfaces and interactive model animation capabilities. • Comprehensive analysis manipulation. Plant Simulation is used to tools, including automatic optimize the building of cruise liners, car Result bottleneck checking and passenger ferries, container vessels Plant Simulation facilitates the simulation • Analyzer, Sankey diagrams and gas tankers, aircraft carriers, of the highly complex shipyard and Gantt charts submarines and naval ships. Plant environment. It offers a good base for • 3D online visualization and Simulation supports strategic corporate deciding the outsourcing and production animation projects by enabling project managers to strategies, while facilitating cross-project • Integrated neural networks find the best shipyard at which to build resource planning, increasing planning and experiment handling new ships. Plant Simulation also can be safety and improving the utilization of the • Automated optimization of used to manage internal production and major resources such as employees, cranes system parameters outsourcing strategies, as well as the and space requirements. • Open system architecture operational work sequences and schedules supporting multiple that are used to distribute the daily Where Plant Simulation applies interfaces and integration workload. • Predicting schedule problems capacities (ActiveX, C, CAD, • Predicting workplace-efficiency MS Excel, Oracle SQL, ODBC, All processes follow easy-to-understand • Finding concept changes for SY’s XML, Socket, etc.) interactive and iterative functions. Users expanding start the scheduling, look at results and, if • Sequence-controlling of assembly lines needed, make changes (for example • Optimizing warehouse and transport excluding a special sub-block). Users capacities restart the scheduling to verify that the • Steel planning changes were correct. Plant Simulation is • Optimizing availability of needed able to predict utilization in each project manpower area, depending on the number and kind of blocks being assembled every day, week References and month. • Aker Yards, • Center Of Maritime Technologies, Why traditional planning tools do Germany not work • Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft, Static planning tools, such as spreadsheets Germany or flow charting software, are unable to • Meyer Werft Papenburg, Germany generate results that account for variability • ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems: and changing conditions over time. Blohm + Voss, Germany Relevant interdependencies between Nordseewerke , Germany system components and technological Kockums, Sweden constraints are not usually taken into • Volkswerft Stralsund, Germany consideration. Complex rules that control the flow of information and material often

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