In a shipyard, the most important thing before construction of a ship is to prepare an optimized production schedule for utilizing the shipyard to the full. This has been, however, a rather difficult task for a long time because a shipyard ordinarily has a lot of complicated constraints and a ship to be constructed usually has very huge product data for shipbuilders to process. The task has been facilitated greatly by our development of a system called SBM-A (Simulation Based Manufacturing for Assembly). This paper describes an example of a practical application of the SBM-A to shipyard production processes.
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