General

A ship or another similar product is big and complicated and consists of a very large number of parts. This means that the information must be organized in one way or other to be able to handle and manage. It is also reasonable to assume that different functions within a yard have different views on it even if, at the end, the product and all its pieces are the same.

Some possible views of a ship are exemplified below (quite independently of how the information is organized in AVEVA Marine).

• In the early project phase the main characteristics (dimensions, general arrangement, compartmentation, cargo carrying capacity, ) are in focus.

• The general arrangement and the compartments define normally the position of the main structures of the ship, like decks, platforms and bulkheads. In the basic design phase the functional properties of these main members are of interest, for example, their position, thickness of plates, pitch between and dimensions of stiffeners. These properties are often evaluated without regard to the final breakdown into blocks, assemblies and parts. Thus the view on the hull structure in this phase mainly functionally oriented.

• At the end the workshops must manufacture all the parts of the ship down to the smallest details and also plan and decide how they should be assembled. The production view of the product is thus preferably assembly oriented.

• The purpose of the detail design phase is to transform the functional design into parts and assemblies as required for production in such a way that the design intent from the functional design is protected. Thus the detail design view on the product can be considered as a mixture of a functional view and an assembly view.

The purpose of this document is to describe how different views on the hull product model are supported by AVEVA Hull against the general background outlined above.

It is beneficial if the reader of this document is familiar with the definitions and the vocabulary as explained in Hull Concepts.