Challenges and needs in the shipyard industryare working in a highly competitiveenvironment with increasingly complexproducts shipyards face the need to buildmore ships in a shorter time and to offerservices at competitive prices and with shortdelivery times. Plant Simulation is an eventdriven simulation tool helping shipyards tohandle these needs easier, and to givecomputer-supported answers to the majorquestions: when and where to produce whatand with which resources depending on the availability and restrictions of resources and materials.

Plant Simulation is a simulation-based and modular toolset with proven benefits for the optimizationof production and logistics in the shipbuilding industry, allowing the graphical representation of partsand resources and interfacing to data base systems.This enables you to model the employment ofavailable shift calendars with customer-specific user-interfaces and interactive model manipulation.Today Plant Simulation is used to optimize the building of: cruise liners, car- and passenger ferries,container vessels and gas tankers, aircraft carriers, submarines and naval ships.

Plant Simulation is used to support strategic corporate projects to find the best shipyard at which tobuild new ships, or to manage internal production and outsourcing strategies as well as theoperational work in which sequence and based on which schedule to distribute the daily work load.

Tecnomatix Plant Simulation for shipyardsSimulation, visualization and optimization of shipbuilding processes

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BenefitsOptimized space and craneutilization

Advanced assembly sequencescheduling

Increased planning safety andaccuracy

Higher service reliability

Improved logistics and materialmanagement with clarity of complexprocesses

Safer investment decisions

Find out whether to make or buy

Predict your delivery times moreaccurately

Minimize your risk of failure or delay

User caseDecreased throughput time from60 to 52 days (-14 percent)

Decreased direct labor on thepanel line from 8,280 to 6,600 hours(-20 percent)

SummaryTecnomatix® Plant Simulation software from Siemens PLM Software enables the simulation and optimization of complex shipyardproduction systems and processes. Using Plant Simulation, you can optimize material flow, resource and space utilization as well as thelogistics for all levels of the shipyard from scheduling individual welding activities up to the complete ship assembly.

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All processes are following easy-to-understandinteractive and iterative functions.You will startthe scheduling, look at results and, if needed, makechanges (for example excluding a special sub-block).Then you will restart the scheduling toverify that the changes you made were correct.Plant Simulation is able to predict the utilization ineach area depending on the number and on thekind of blocks being assembled every day, weekand month.

Why traditional planning tools do not workStatic planning tools such as spreadsheets or flow charting software are unable to generate results toaccount for variability and changing conditions over time. Relevant interdependencies between systemcomponents and technological constraints can not be taken into consideration. Complex rules thatcontrol the flow of information and material can hardly be accounted for. In addition the visualizationdoes not offer 3D animation capabilities.

ResultPlant Simulation allows the simulation of the highly complex shipyard environment. It offers a good basefor deciding the outsourcing and production strategies, facilitates cross-project resource planning andincreases planning safety and improved utilization of the major resources such as employees, cranes andspace requirements.

Plant Simulation helps in:• Predicting schedule problems• Predicting workplace-efficiency• Finding concept changes for SY’s expanding• Sequence-controlling of assembly lines• Optimizing warehouse and transport capacities• Steel planning• Optimizing availability of needed man power

Some references:• AkerYards, Germany• Center Of Maritime Technologies, Germany• Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft, Germany• MeyerWerft Papenburg, Germany• ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems:Blohm +Voss, GermanyNordseewerke Emden, GermanyKockums, Sweden

• Volkswerft Stralsund, Germany

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FeaturesSimulation of complex productionsystems and control strategies

Object-oriented, hierarchical modelsof shipyards, encompassing business,logistic and production processes

Graphs and charts for analysis ofthroughput, resources andbottlenecks

Comprehensive analysis tools,including automatic bottleneck

Analyzer, Sankey diagrams and Ganttcharts

3D online visualization andanimation

Integrated neural networks andexperiment handling

Automated optimization of systemparameters

Open system architecturesupporting multiple interfaces andintegration capacities (ActiveX, C,CAD, MS Excel, Oracle SQL,ODBC, XML, Socket, etc.)

ContactSiemens PLM SoftwareAmericas 800 498 5351Europe 44 (0) 1276 702000Asia-Pacific 852 2230 3333www.siemens.com/plm

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