Assembly Planning

This User Guide intends to give an impression of Assembly Planning in its current state with focus on the functionality to create assembly structures, and to populate assemblies with model parts. Assembly Planning provides functionality to manage the production breakdown structure of the design. It supports the definition of the build strategy and the creation of assembly production information.

The hierarchical assembly tree (the production breakdown structure) is defined and maintained in parallel with the design and modelling work. The rough build strategy is defined in the early phase of a project, and further refined into a detailed build strategy along with the refinement of the model. As soon as model parts are available in Design, they can be collected to nodes in the assembly tree. Thus, the Assembly view of the product is available from the very beginning of the design, and is continuously developed during the design process. Assembly Planning allows the detailed design model to be viewed as a production model.

With Assembly Planning the complete production breakdown structure is created and maintained. This includes the production hierarchy for the hull, but also the installation of Equipment, Electrical, HVAC and Outfit steel. An assembly could be a physical steel unit (including outfit installation), but an assembly could also correspond to a space (for example a compartment or a room) and thereby include all the prefabricated units, material and components to be installed into this space.

Its main features are as follows:

• Tools for creation and manipulation of the Assembly Tree.

• Tools for the collection of objects / parts to assemblies.