Concept Description_Assembly Planning

Assembly planning provides the functionality to manage, create and maintain the complete production breakdown structure. This includes the production hierarchy for the hull and the installation of equipment, electrical, HVAC and Outfit steel. An assembly could be a physical steel unit (including outfit installation), or could also correspond to a space (e.g. a compartment or a room) and thereby include all the prefabricated units, material and components to be installed into this space.

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 is 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 mode.