Transparency in the Design-Accompanying Production on Shipyards

摘要

In shipbuilding there is a chronological overlap of product design and manufacturing to reduce cycle times. So customer requirements and thus product design may change during manufacturing. Due to the low level of digitization and availability of real time data, this adaption leads to high additional efforts and loss of time. Hence this paper presents an approach for a real time data acquisition system for a shipbuilding environment based on Auto-ID and real-time locating technologies. The system is linked to the design software. Thus product changes are announced immediately to the shopfloor what minimizes unnecessary work and time losses.