A New Collaborative Engineering Management Tool for Shipbuilding

摘要

Once the use of 3D CAD/CAM tools has been commonly accepted in the shipbuilding industry, it is necessary to provide a solution to the new question of the control on the Product Model created, on the fabrication and assembly documents obtained from it and what is more important, on the modifications. The traditional approach of the implementation of a standard PDM-PLM solution has been nowhere near successful enough, due to the particularities of these systems, with their time-consuming and difficult process for implementation and start-up which have annulled all theoretical advantages. This is why it is worth considering other solutions that can provide an acceptable result without exorbitant costs. The subject of this paper is the analysis of one of such solutions, its advantages and corresponding risk. This solution has recently been incorporated into the latest FORAN version, and is called Collaborative Engineering Management tool.