Siemens PLM Software Plant Simulation for shipyards Simulation, visualization and optimization of shipbuilding processes Benefits Summary The challenges of today’s shipyard industry • Optimized space and crane Tecnomatix® software’s Plant Simulation are complicated by having to deliver utilization enables the simulation and optimization of increasingly complex products in a highly complex shipyard production systems and competitive marketplace. Shipyards now • Advanced assembly processes. Using Plant Simulation, you can face the need to build more ships in a sequence scheduling optimize material flow, resource and space shorter time and to offer services at • Increased planning safety utilization as well as the logistics for all lev- compet itive prices and with short delivery and accuracy els of the shipyard from scheduling times. Plant Simulation is an event-driven individual welding activities up to the com- simulation tool that helps shipyards handle • Higher service reliability plete ship assembly. these needs more easily, providing • Improved logistics and material management with clarity of complex processes • Safer investment decisions • Ability to better decide upon make versus buy issues • Ability to more accurately predict delivery times www.siemens.com/tecnomatix TECNOMATIX Tecnomatix Plant Simulation for shipyards Benefits continued computer-supported answers to major depending on the number and kind of • Ability to reduce the risk of questions such as when and where to blocks being assembled every day, week product failure or delay develop what products and with resources and month. limited by availability and restricted Features Why traditional planning tools materials. • Simulation of complex pro- do not work duction systems and control Plant Simulation is a simulation-based and Static planning tools, such as spreadsheets strategies modular toolset with proven benefits for or flow-charting software, are unable to optimizing production and logistics in the generate results that account for variability • Object-oriented, hierarchi- shipbuilding industry, allowing the graphi- and changing conditions over time. cal models of shipyards, cal representation of parts and resources Relevant interdependencies between sys- encompassing business, and interfacing to database systems. This tem components and technological logistic and production toolset enables you to model the employ- constraints are not usually taken into con- processes ment of available shift calendars with sideration. Complex rules that control the • Graphs and charts for ana- customer-specific user-interfaces and inter- flow of information and material often can- lyzing throughput, active model manipulation. Plant not be accounted for when traditional resources and bottlenecks Simulation is used to optimize the building planning tools are used. In addition, the of cruise liners, car and passenger ferries, visualization does not offer 3D animation • Comprehensive analysis container vessels and gas tankers, aircraft capabilities. tools, including automatic carriers, submarines and naval ships. Plant bottleneck checking Result Simulation supports strategic corporate Plant Simulation facilitates the simulation • Sankey diagrams and Gantt projects by enabling project managers to of the highly complex shipyard environ- charts identify the best shipyard at which to build ment. It offers a good basis for deciding the new ships. Plant Simulation also can be • 3D online visualization and outsourcing and production strategies, used to manage internal production and animation while facilitating cross-project resource outsourcing strategies, as well as the oper- planning, increasing planning safety and • Integrated neural networks ational work sequences and schedules that improving the utilization of major resources and experiment handling are used to distribute the daily workload. such as employees, cranes and square • Automated optimization of All processes follow easy-to-understand footage. system parameters interactive and iterative functions. Users start the scheduling, look at results and, if • Open system architecture needed, make changes (for example supporting multiple inter- excluding a special sub-block). Users restart faces and integration the scheduling to verify that the changes capacities (ActiveX, C, CAD, were correct. Plant Simulation is able to MS Excel, Oracle SQL, predict utilization in each project area, ODBC, XML, Socket, OPC, etc.) TECNOMATIX User case Where Plant Simulation applies References • Decreased throughput time • Predicting schedule problems • Aker Yards, Germany from 60 to 52 days (-14 • Predicting workplace-efficiency • Center Of Maritime Technologies, percent) Germany • Finding concept changes for expanding • Decreased direct labor on shipyards • Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft, the panel line from 8,280 to Germany 6,600 hours (-20 percent) • Sequence-control of assembly lines • Meyer Werft Papenburg, Germany • Optimizing warehouse and transport capacities • ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems: Blohm + Voss, Germany • Steel planning Nordseewerke Emden, Germany • Optimizing availability of needed Kockums, Sweden manpower • Volkswerft Stralsund, Germany Contact Siemens PLM Software Americas +1 314 264 8499 Europe +44 (0) 1276 413200 Asia-Pacific +852 2230 3308 www.siemens.com/plm © 2015 Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc. 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