Background

Parts in the AVEVA Marine Product Information Model (sometimes referred to as PIM) are identified by names and by different identification codes, used internally in AVEVA Marine. The names may carry some information about the part. At least when it comes to part names (the production oriented names) the name normally contains some information about which assembly the part belongs to.

To support more explicit description of parts, AVEVA Hull also allows descriptive name "tags" to be assigned to all parts. These tags are called functional descriptions and they are strings that "follow" the parts throughout the development of the project. In this document the term "Functional Description" is normally abbreviated to FD.

In addition to serving as pure name tags (which might be valuable in request functions like Info/Model and in parts lists), the FD:s may also be used to control certain automatic evaluations. An example of such a use is that the functional properties may control the automatic calculation of weld sizes.

The purpose of this document is to give a complete description of the functional descriptions in AVEVA Marine, that means, regarding general principles, how they are set up and assigned to parts.