Andi Asmara
The project concerns a cooperation of the following companies: IHC Dredgers, Schelde Naval Shipbuilding, Merwede Shipyard, Croon Electrotechniek, Bakker Sliedrecht Elektro Industrie, Imtech Marine & Offshore, GTI Mechanical, Heinen & Hopman, Numercial Center Groningen, Maritime Research Institute Netherlands and Delft University of Technology. These organizations have joined forces to substantially improve their ship design and engineering processes, in a project called Concurrent Engineering, Planning, Pricing and Production (CE3P).
Optimal routing
One of the most complicated and time-consuming processes in ship production is to determine the optimal route for pipes, cable trays and HVAC ducts. Therefore, part of the CE3P project involves research to develop an automatic routing tools to generate optimum collision free routes in ships. The optimization involves aspects such as length of the elements, number of bends and curves, accessibility for fitting, repair and maintenance, work involved in fabrication and outfitting, etc. To give an idea: in a ship hundreds of kilometers of cable and thousands of pipe elements can be found.
The project is aimed at obtaining insight into the proper optimization criteria, researching routing algorithms, developing prototype routing tools, developing insights relative to the proper embedding of such tools in the design and engineering process and validating the methods on the basis of a wide range of ship applications.