Development Projects

SHIPCONSTRUCTOR DEVELOPMENT

In-house, SSI is concentrating efforts on the construction of:

Project Split & Merge

Project Split & Merge is being partially funded as part of the Second Tier Shipyard Design Enhancement Program (STSDEP) National Shipbuilding Research Program (NSRP) project. The goal of this project is to enable several parties to work on the same project by sharing project data in a safe way. Yards will be able to share high work loads with sub-contractors while design agents are able to pass on their design model to yards for final detailing and production. Many users have requested the ability to contract portions of the design out to other design agents or shipyards and eventually bring that information back to maintain a single, cohesive 3D product model. Split & Merge Beta testing will begin in October 2007 with the public release scheduled for December 2007.

Outsourcing with Split & Merge

Electrical Module

The development of an integrated electrical design and production package is being pursued on two fronts:

The Shipboard Electrical Analysis and Production (SEA-Pro) project is a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) project, which is targeted towards integrating the SKM electrical analysis package from SKM System Analysis and Systems Modeling and Reasoning Technology (SMaRT™), from Scientia Technologies, with ShipConstructor 2008 to provide an end-to-end design, analysis and production package.

As an extension of the Second Tier Shipyard Design Enhancement Program (STSDEP) National Shipbuilding Research Program (NSRP) project, ShipConstructor Software USA Inc. (SSI USA) has been awarded funding to produce a software specification describing an electrical design and production package, which is to be fully integrated with ShipConstructor. The Electrical Module Beta testing will begin in March of 2008.

Work on the Electrical Module has started

Weld Management Module

As an extension of the Second Tier Shipyard Design Enhancement Program (STSDEP) National Shipbuilding Research Program (NSRP) project, ShipConstructor Software USA Inc. (SSI USA) has been awarded funding to produce a software specification describing a comprehensive weld management module, which is to be fully integrated with ShipConstructor. The module will cover tracking, management and approval of welds in both the structure and distributed systems modules. The Weld Management Module Beta testing will begin in March of 2008.

SHIPCONSTRUCTOR DEVELOPER NETWORK (SCDN) PROJECTS

STEP - Industrial Planning Technology

ShipConstructor Software Inc. (SSI) has been working with Industrial Planning Technology (IPT) since late 2005 on the development of a translator that will enable ShipConstructor to import and export STEP files containing pipe, HVAC, and equipment data. This technology will significantly enhance ShipConstructor’s interoperability in large shipyard environments, allow organizations to access legacy data more easily, and simplify the long term storage and retrieval of archival product model data throughout the entire product lifecycle.

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FEA for PLM - Martec

We have been working with Martec since early 2006 to integrate their Finite Element Analysis (FEA) with ShipConstructor 2006. Martec is developing this product for the Canadian Navy in an effort to support structural life cycle management for its fleet. This product allows users to extract an up-to-date FEA model directly from the ShipConstructor model at various levels of detail depending on the purpose of the FEA calculations. Currently, the project is in the preliminary stages and rudimentary models have been extracted from ShipConstructor.

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ShipConstructor model viewed in Trident

ShipLift - Noran Engineering

The U.S. Navy, through the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) program, has funded phase I of the collaborative effort between Noran Engineering, Inc., a leading developer of NEi Nastran finite element analysis (FEA) software, and SSI, to develop the program, that will solve a major production problem in shipyards: safe, distortion and damage-free lifting and handling of ship components during construction. The new software, code-named ShipLift, will automatically calculate the proper pick up points and maintain a digital knowledge base. Based on the build strategy, ShipLift will extract the correct 3D model for NEi Nastran FEA to analyze the model for stresses and strains on the plates, sub-assemblies and full assemblies.

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ShipLift will determine proper lifting points