Product Lifecycle Management Brunvoll thrusters integrate smoothly with
Product Lifecycle Management Brunvoll thrusters integrate smoothly with IBM PLM o Brunvoll AS supplies thruster propulsion units for a wide variety of ships for customers that include Royal Caribbean Cruiselines, Meyer Werft Shipyard, Chantiers de l’Atlantique, Carnival Cruise Lines and the Norwegian Navy. § Business challenges o Integrating thrusters with ships designed thousands of miles away, especially in the case of retractable thrusters that actually penetrate the bottom of the hull in some designs. o Integrating a 3 D system such as a thruster, which may need to move within the ship and even extend beyond the normal confines of the hull, with interrelated systems designed in 2 D. o Using a small staff to manage documentation requirements of government agencies such as navies that require quick turnaround of nonstandard documentation. § Solution implementation o o CATIA V 5 for 3 D design SMARTEAM for sophisticated, long-term management of engineering documentation, including after-sales maintenance and retrofitting 3 D capabilities identify design errors in 2 D documentation provided by design consultants and shipyards and permit resolution before fabrication begins SMARTEAM simplifies data retrieval and management, enabling customisation of documents to meet clients’ specific needs and allowing inquiries to be handled in an extremely responsive manner § Benefits of the solution o o Achieves faster time to market by eliminating steps Provides end-to-end solution integration for smoother product rollout Enables long-term after-sales support using the same documents created to design and build the system Saves Brunvoll time and generates substantial savings while helping the company to maintain its competitive edge © 2003 IBM Corporation § Customer background
Product Lifecycle Management IBM PLM thrusts Brunvoll to forefront of thruster design Brunvoll AS, a 160 -employee company in Molde, Norway, is one of the world’s leading suppliers of thruster propulsion units for ships. Brunvoll’s units are used by customers including Royal Caribbean Cruiselines, Meyer Werft Shipyard, Chantiers de l’Atlantique, Carnival Cruise Lines and the Norwegian Navy. · The Challenge Thrusters intersect with the ships in which they are installed at many points, even penetrating the bottom of the hull in some designs. Integration of the thruster design with related systems must be executed flawlessly, although the ship and the thruster are designed and assembled separately, often in different countries. · The Solution The 3 D capabilities of CATIA V 5 allow Brunvoll to ensure a perfect fit between its thrusters and the design of the ship itself. The company’s 3 D capabilities have been instrumental in detecting and correcting errors in 2 D documents supplied by design consultants and shipyards before fabrication begins. And SMARTEAM is helping the small company keep up with the big demands of many clients for quick turnaround of highly customised documentation. · The Customer Benefits Brunvoll estimates that IBM PLM has helped it to save millions of dollars and maintain its competitive edge by delivering faster time-to-market, end-to-end solution integration and aftersales support capabilities. “We find that having the 3 D capabilities of CATIA and being able to communicate with the customer and the shipyard in 3 D is invaluable. Using 3 D modeling helps us turn up any errors in the 2 D designs supplied to us as we try to integrate our units into the ship. ” – Kevin Isham, Manager of Mechanical Design, Brunvoll AS Presentation Title | Date | Confidential © 2003 IBM Corporation · The Industry
Product Lifecycle Management Brunvoll AS, which has been in business in Molde, Norway, for more than 90 years, is one of the world’s leading suppliers of thruster propulsion units. These units are used in a wide variety of ships for customers including Royal Caribbean Cruiselines, Meyer Werft Shipyard, Chantiers de l’Atlantique, Carnival Cruise Lines and the Norwegian Navy. For seven years, Brunvoll has relied on IBM Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions for collaborative product design and data management applications that help the company maintain and build on its reputation for delivering only the best. Brunvoll uses CATIA V 5, the world’s leading product development application, for all design and documentation. It is implementing SMARTEAM product data management applications for workflow, configuration management and production of customer documentation. The CATIA and SMARTEAM applications, developed by Dassault Systemes, are fully complementary. As part of the extended platform, Brunvoll will use CATIA to fully automate the design and complete cutting of high-precision propeller assemblies, a first in the industry. “We deliver form-cut tunnel extensions that have to match precisely with the hull form. The 3 D capabilities of CATIA are critical to helping us accomplish this. ” Kevin Isham, Manager of Mechanical Design, Brunvoll AS © 2003 IBM Corporation CATIA V 5 3 D allows Brunvoll to ensure a perfect fit between its designs and the ship
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