Marine Inocean

Offshore oil vessel specialist advances agility, innovation and business goals with NX and Teamcenter

Products NX, Teamcenter

Business challenges Develop special naval solutions for the North Sea and beyond Integrate complex construc- tion tasks across operations Combine different construc- tion elements while meeting schedules/due dates

Keys to success Inocean designs some of the projects all over the world, and has Use NX to advance innovation most extreme and large recently landed a contract for developing a and accelerate turnaround of drilling ship for Statoil, the Cat I. highly advanced offshore seagoing vessels for the world’s products and services harshest marine environments The Cat I rig must be designed to operate Collaborate effectively using Siemens PLM Software in Arctic ice up to 1.2 meters thick. This with international divisions, solutions and other challenging, major projects have partners and customers enabled Inocean to become one of the Challenging the Arctic Sea leading players in the offshore business. Implement change manage- ment process seamlessly From underdog to major player, Inocean is Meeting ecological and economical across operations now developing complex drilling and float- ing production storage and offloading drivers (FPSO) vessels for companies operating in Inocean delivers a wide range of special- Results oceans all over the world. ized vessels and technologies to offshore oil companies. The company is using Easy, fast and secure imple- Siemens PLM Software’s NX™ software, NX mentation of product Eighteen years ago, Thomas Eckey and Jon ® software and Teamcenter® soft- changes, corrections and Erik Borgen started their company in a ware to develop its solutions. updates in real time backyard office in Oslo. They were deter- mined to build advanced offshore units. In the years since, the company been “Regardless of size, the jobs always involved in major marine and offshore require detailed planning, continuous

www.siemens.com/plm Results continued More agile workforce across locations Higher quality and greater innovation built into deliverables Improved best practices via integrated digital product development platform, with significant error reduction throughout operations New business

Inocean CAT I is tailored for Arctic operations in rough, ice-infested waters. “We are ship and naval archi- tects, designers and innova- adjustments, safety and quality assur- platform, Inocean is able to reduce the tors – people with highly ance,” says Reidar Berthelsen, who heads number of CAE tools it uses while also different and specialized up Architecture and Computer-Aided adding productivity to the simulation skills. Siemens PLM Design (CAD) at Inocean. He explains, “In team. “We are using NX Nastran for our Software’s NX is contributing addressing today’s ecological and econom- non-linear structure analysis, mainly due to improved cooperation and ical environments, there is no room for to potential ship collisions. Using the 3D interchange within our errors or delays. We have to meet very model generated with NX CAE for analysis team.” high standards; NX is crucial to our pro- enables a streamlined process. Previously, cesses and critical to accelerating innova- we used Abaqus for analyses, which was Frode Kaafjeld tion. We are using NX for hull generation expensive. Moreover, we’ve realized a Chief of Communication and as the main tool for developing our 3D meaningful cost advantage in limiting the Inocean models. Previously, we used Rhinoceros number of software providers. software and Autoship for hull generation and, to some degree, Autodesk Inventor “Product engineering is an iterative pro- software for 3D-modeling.” cess, and considering the number of parts that are part of a vessel assembly, manag- As part of the ship development process, ing each component revision and knowing Inocean also needs to understand how the which part is the latest across hundreds or ships’ designs will perform under certain thousands of components is challenging to conditions. To do this, Inocean uses simu- manage. Teamcenter offers us important lation because physical testing would be project management value. With the link cost-prohibitive and almost impossible to between NX and Teamcenter, we now do quickly with such large structures. By have safe version control. Prior to using NX as a product engineering Teamcenter, we didn’t have an effective “I don’t think our constructions would be feasible without NX.”

Nils Erik Werenskiold Chief Designer Inocean Solutions/Services NX Using Siemens PLM Software, NX Nastran www.siemens.com/nx Inocean now operates a more Teamcenter www.siemens.com/teamcenter agile workforce across locations.

Customer’s primary business way to manage our 3D models. In addi- An increasing number of the staff at Inocean offers design and tion, Teamcenter enables our non-CAD Inocean has gained or is quickly gaining engineering services to the users, such as project managers, to easily skills using NX. Today, designers at its maritime industry worldwide. review models, perform quality checks and Poland and Norway offices are using NX. Its core competence is engi- create persuasive presentations.” Frode Kaafjeld, the company’s chief of neering studies and project communications, notes, “We are ship and execution for offshore plat- Merging tradition with advanced naval architects, designers and innovators – forms and marine structures technology people with different and highly special- across the oil, gas and renew- While Siemens PLM Software’s solutions ized skills. Siemens PLM Software’s NX is able industries. are essential to delivering products accord- contributing to improved cooperation www.inocean.no ing to ever-demanding cost requirements and interchange within our team.” and schedules, especially in terms of inno- vation, some traditional approaches Kaafjeld points out that with NX, the Customer location remain intact at Inocean. The company company has achieved a higher level of Oslo recently advanced a unique approach to process efficiency: “Across operations, we Norway vessel design by hiring a a car designer, are more efficient, and we are expecting Nils Erik Werenskioild, to develop new more as our team employs the advanced Branch offices in Poland ideas for long-established Norwegian capabilities of Teamcenter and NX.” and Sweden shipbuilding traditions. “I still use pencils, felt-tip pens and paper to make the first Ultimately, using Siemens PLM Software, “In addressing today’s drawings,” he says. “I may alter the design Inocean is experiencing smooth sailing in ecological and economical a bit before I fully engage the software.” keeping its customers happy and increas- environments, there is no Werenskiold is especially enthusiastic ing business. room for errors or delays. about NX for innovation purposes, noting: We have to meet very high “NX offers exceptional design advantages standards; NX is crucial to and advanced possibilities. In fact, I don’t our processes and critical think our constructions would be feasible to accelerating innovation.” without NX.” Reidar Berthelsen Head of Architecture and CAD Inocean

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