Bureau Veritas slashes design review times with digital 3D model
Leading
international classification society Bureau Veritas has dramatically slashed
structural computational and verification times.
The dramatic reduction in the time
needed to check the structure, seakeeping and stability of new vessels and
floating offshore units is being delivered through the use of a powerful 3D
model which links directly to BV’s entire VeriSTAR suite of calculation tools.
Philippe Donche-Gay, Executive
Vice-President, Marine & Offshore Division, says, “The power and ease of
use of our new modelling software enables us to build a detailed 3D model of
the proposed vessel very quickly, much more quickly than has ever been achieved
before. That model interfaces directly with all our tools, meaning no data has
to be entered twice, saving time and improving accuracy. Ship designers,
shipyards, ship owners and offshore operators are going to benefit from major
time and cost savings as we move our entire design and plan approval onto this
new digital platform.”
Bureau Veritas’ new system is
based on a strategic partnership with France’s Dassault Systèmes under which
Bureau Veritas will use Dassault’s 3DEXPERIENCE platform to dramatically speed
the creation of detailed 3D models of ships and floating offshore units.
The model allows end-to-end
calculation without data re-entry through all the analysis and design phases,
then will facilitate construction by simplifying the order of steel cutting. It
will then go on to form a digital twin of the vessel or unit and be maintained
in an as-is state for the life of the unit. This will facilitate maintenance
and repair or conversion decisions.
A pilot project with the
well-known Chinese design institute SDARI has been completed. Two new aframax
and suezmax tanker projects from this designer were modelled by using the new
3D platform. The models were then automatically transferred into BV’s
structural calculation software VeriSTAR Hull, in which the latest CSR Rules
for oil tankers are fully integrated.
The process enabled the designer to check compliance with the CSR Rules
in a very quick, powerful and easy way.
Says Donche-Gay, “What’s
different about this new platform, and what creates the time and cost saving,
is the power of the modelling software. We now only have to build one model and
we do not have to create multiple data sets to use different tools for hull
strength, stability and other vital calculations. We also improve traceability
in-house as there is only one data entry.”
Bureau Veritas Marine &
Offshore Division is leading the digital transformation of the Bureau Veritas
group and will be introducing a series of new apps and services during 2016
which will speed services and improve communication between clients and the
classification society.
Bureau Veritas is a world leader in laboratory
testing, inspection and certification services. Created in 1828, the Group has
more than 66,000 employees in around 1,400 offices and laboratories located all
across the globe. Bureau Veritas helps its clients to improve their performance
by offering services and innovative solutions in order to ensure that their
assets, products, infrastructure and processes meet standards and regulations
in terms of quality, health and safety, environmental protection and social
responsibility. Bureau Veritas is listed on Euronext Paris and belongs to the
Next 20 index.
Compartment A, ISIN code FR 0006174348, stock
symbol: BVI.
Corporate website www.bureauveritas.com/marine-and-offshore
Contacts:
Philippe Boisson
Bureau Veritas
+33 (0)1 55 24 71 98
Labels: classification society, design review, digital transformation
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