COSCO Shipyard to deploy 3D software across all yards
Offshore staff
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- The COSCO Shipyard Group has opted for rapid deployment of Intergraph's SmartMarine 3DT software to all five of its yards. After ten months of implementation, the company says it realized significant productivity and quality results to warrant the decision.
According to Intergraph, SmartMarine 3D streamlines marine outfitting and structure design processes and provides the functionality needed to design and build different types of marine facilities and equipment.
COSCO is planning on expanding its use of the software at its Guangzhou technical center branch and Guangzhou shipyards. Implementation at these sites will begin in the first half of 2008.
Since purchasing SmartMarine 3D in late 2006, COSCO has applied its marine engineering design capabilities in three shipyards:
•COSCO Zhoushan Shipyard - Its FSO project is the first offshore project by COSCO Zhoushan and is the beginning of its offshore marine industry activities, including the new development for a semisubmersible unit
•COSCO Dalian Shipyard - Design and construction of a floating, drilling, production, storage, and offloading vessel
•COSCO Nantong Shipyard - Production of the first self-elevating jackup drilling unit undertaken by COSCO and only the third ever built in China, as well as the world's first cylindrical drilling unit.
"Using SmartMarine 3D for our design process has given us markedly improved efficiency and quality compared to our previous design process. For example, modeling of piping and equipment is now done up to 50% faster," says Zhu Qingshuang, general manager for the COSCO Shipyard Group technical center. "The partnership and support we enjoy from Intergraph is invaluable for achieving our objectives and goals for becoming one of the most sophisticated shipyards in China as well as on a global basis."
10/24/2007