General

As described in a separate document AVEVA Marine in general and Hull in particular support two different views of the product model:

• The design view

and

• the production (assembly) view.

The design view is kept internally in AVEVA Marine and is the responsibility of the design departments. The production view is the view of the product mainly considering how it should be manufactured and assembled.

The two views are based on the same product model and consist of the same parts. However, quite different tools are used to access a part via the two views and the name of a part is not the same. Thus, a part has one design name and another name for production. (Traditional part programming systems do normally not distinguish between design and production names. One reason is that parts programming often takes place at such a late stage that the production planning has already been done).

In AVEVA Marine the design names are assigned as soon as a part is created. They are here called the AVEVA Marine names, are normally set by the designer and are used internally in AVEVA Marine and in the drawing offices. The AVEVA Marine names are fixed once they have been set.

The production names are set at later stages when the break down into assemblies has been made. They are called part-names and are typically painted onto parts in production, are the names used in production lists. The part-names are dynamic in the sense that they are formed when asked for. If the rules for the structure of part-names are changed or if any of the constituents of the name is modified then a new part-name will be delivered the next time it is asked for.

AVEVA Marine has functions that support the mapping from the AVEVA Marine names to the part-names. This support comprises a function for automatic setting of position (piece) numbers and a module to control how the part-names for different types of parts should be built up from available attributes, for further information. If in a simple production the design and production views are identical the part-names may be based on the design structure.

However, the purpose of the current document is restricted to give some information about rules for AVEVA Marine names of model objects in the hull structure and of some related support objects.