ISO TC 184/SC 4/WG 3/T 23 (SHIP TEAM) AGENDA

Poiriers 2003

 Theme: Ship APs, AP 239 PLCS, AP233 Systems Engineering, PDM Schema Modularisation

October 2003, Poitiers, France

Attendees

 

 

Actions

See updated action list (Annex A)

Project Reviews

Korea

See presentation (Annex B)

 

Ho-Jin Hwang gave a presentation of the status KS-STEP.  New project has just begun 7.2003 – 7.2006 involving just KRISO – ship yards may review data.

 

The objective is to develop test cases for production processes such as steel cutting, edge preparation and welding (to be used in STEP-NC).  AIM/XML data will be generated using AP218.

 

The first year will do AP215:2004, 216:2003, 218:2004 and the second year AP227 ed2.

 

They will construct a STEP database for bulk carrier, tanker and container ships.

US

Ron Wood gave an update on the projects in the US (See Annex C).

All fall under the NSRP programme.

ISE2

Industry wide effort to develop of an Integrated Shipbuilding Environment

 

The project has 21 members including  Electric boat, Newport News, Niip, ABS, Bath Iron works, NASSCO, Atlantec-es, STEP Tools, ERIM, SENER and The University of Michigan

 

The Final demo was held on 10 April 2003  and included data exchange between LEAPS, Intelliship, Flagship, Foran, Safehull, TRIBON, CATIA and AutoCAD.

 

It was based around 4 scenarios:

 

 

The project will continue till 2004 to develop documentation and usage guides.

ISE3

This is a continuation project to do HVAC and common parts catalogs.  The participants include  EB, NG, NIIIP, Intergraph, Atlantec and Simsmart.

Common parts catalogues

Participants are EB, Northrop-Grumman Ship Systems, Bath Iron Works, (Northrop-Grumman –Newport News, NASSCO)

The objectives are:

 

 

The project will run from Sept 2003-sept 2004

Harvest

Harvest ran from Oct 2001 to March 2003, the objective was to complete the ship AP215:2004, 216:2003, 218:2004.

 

It has succeeded in that AP216:2003 was published August 1, and AP215 and AP218 are awaiting the incorporation of WG3 convenors comments.  Should be published by about March next year.

IPSE

Integrated steel processing environment

 

Phase 0 ran from May 31 2002 – April 2003, and was requirements collection for manufacturing rule base, work packages, CAM interfaces and manufacturability. However phases 1-2 have not been awarded.

EMSA - Bath 2004 meeting update (see annex J)

The STEP meeting for July 2004 is being hosted by EMSA in Bath, a world heritage site due to its Toman and Georgian (18th Century) architecture.  The meeting will be held at the University and accommodation rooms will be held in the Hilton Hotel.  EMSA are looking for sponsors for the Sunday evening welcome reception.  The Tuesday evening event will be a tour of the Roman Baths in Bath followed by a dinner in either the pump rooms or the Guildhall.

AP227

Burt gave an overview of the AP227 progress.  (See Annex D for details)

 

A joint effort between process plant and shipbuilders.  The DIS ballot concluded in June 2003 which was unanimously approved.  It should be sent to Geneva in about Jan 2004.

 

Edition 2 scope included cableways, HVAC design and installation, configuration change management, ship unique information, mechanical systems.

 

Translators have been developed by Dassault, CADDS, CATIA... for edition 1.  Edition 2:  Intelliship, TRIBON, CATIA, FORAN.  A demonstration happened in April 10 2003.

 

Year 3 demo, Ship Constructor, SimSmart piping functional design sent to product portal.

 

GD-EB are using AP227 internally to do pipe stresses.

 

A new project for HVAC will run from Oct 2003 to Sept 2004 consisting of CATIA, FORAM, Intelliship, SIMSMART, TRIBON.

 

An AP227 usage guide meeting will be held at December 3-4 at NIST.

 

Thickness measurements project/standard (PR)

Philippe gave an overview of the thickness measurement project (See Annex E).

 

The project is designed to produce a standard of the exchange of thickness measurements.  They start from the 3D Product data model to which the thickness measurements are attached.  However the 3D model is not a complete model but a ‘shoe box’ model i.e. bottom, weather deck and bulkheads.  This is supported by a hierarchical and topological model, there is no detailed geometry.  This amounts to about 1 days effort for each ship, which is necessary as they have thousands of ships.

 

Original thickness, measured thickness, cracks, coating condition and comments.

 

The system they are envisaging will use 2 operators one entering data who will position the TM on a graphical interface on the PC and one operator (or robot) doing the measurements.

 

Review STEP Implementation White paper

Philippe gave a run through of his STEP implementation white paper (See Annex F).

 

His vision is that functionality will be integrated in-house within the shipyards as a single system, which will communicate through web based portals.  STEP is therefore needed to communicate between these clusters.  The main application area will be machinery exchange.

 

AP 239 Presentation (Rob Bodington, Eurostep Limited)

 

Rob Bodington gave a presentation on the Product Lifecycle Support Standard (AP239) (See Annex G)

 

PLCS is a joint industry and government initiative to produce a standard which will ensure that support information for a product is aligned to the evolving definition over the entire lifecycle.

 

Rob gave an overview of the scope and potential uses for the standard, and also an overview of the modular structure of the AP.  See also the plcs web site http://www.plcs.org.

 

A module is somewhat simlar to a T23 building block, but is more detailed as it is constructed like a mini AP with scope, ARM and MIM (module Integrated Model).

 

ISC

A-Liaisons may make SC4 standards available to their members free of charge.

This means that EMSA as an A-liaison may make all STEP standards available to its members free of charge on its web site.  The EMSA coordinator will be putting those that are currently available in the members area of the EMSA web site.

 

JK to apply to the SC4 secretariat to get the electronic version of those standards which are available.

 

PLCS Data Exchange Sets

Nils Sandsmark gave an overview of the Data Exchange Sets (DEXS) concept which is used by PLCS for defining the information requirements for exchange within certain business scenarios (See Annex H).  There were originally 35 DEXs, but there are now nine which are being developed:

 

1. Product breakdown for support

2. Fault states

3. Task set

4. Workpackage definition

5. Maintenance plan

6. Support drivers

7. Operational feedback

8.  Product as individual

9. Workpackage reporting

 

These 9 are approximately 50% complete.

 

The data for the DEXs are collected in spreadsheets; much of it is reused Reference Data libraries developed by ISO 15926 (A sister stand to STEP for lifecycle data in the Oil and Gas industries).

 

This is being tested in a Frigate project for the Norwegian Navy (See Annex I).  The frigate is being built by IZAR.  Their data is being mapped into PLCS and loaded into a PLCS database (an EPM tool).  The data will then be transferred into SAP v4.6 which is being used by Norwegian Defence in the future, the transfer will be done according to the 9 DEXs.

 

DNV and Norwegian Defence will go for ISO 15926 for the Reference Data.

 

AP233 Systems Engineering

Jim U’Ren Nasa JPL chair of AP233 group gave a presentation on the systems engineering data representation AP233.  Systems engineering is managing, structuring and allocating requirements including the design product breakdowns – physical, functional and system.  This includes Rules, Scheduling, Risk analysis, behaviour models.

 

AP233 builds on work done in the EU funded SEDRES project, but has been produced as a modular AP and now conforms to the requirements of INCOSE, the International Council on Systems Engineering.  They also collaborate with work going on in OMG.

 

A large consortium including Northrop Grumman, BAE Systems, UK MoD and NAVSEA.

 

The modules for AP233 are still in development and there are still some areas which need sponsors for development including risk analysis. 

 

They have a demonstrator which has import/export interfaces with Word, Excel, RequisitePro, Doors, Vitech CORE and STEP PDM Schema. 

 

GL stated that they may have interest in Risk analysis in the future.    NG-SS also do systems engineering and requirements analysis.

 

It was noted that AP233 could cover the exchange of classification society rules, as these are essentially requirements.

 

PDM Schema harmonisation, modularisation

-         Benefits

-         Technical issues

-         Funding

 

PR:  We need to make the most of practical implementations of the existing basic APs before we spend time on enhancing their capability with PLCS etc.

 

JM:  The need for PLCS is clear, AP233 less clear, but we need to use the ship APs first.

 

RW: System engineering is coming back strong and is being specified by clients.  But not specifying AP233.  Additionally there are Oasis, W3c competing efforts.

 

Japan: small committee, difficult to discuss PLCS, AP233.  But can discuss AP227 based on AP226

 

JK: It would be desirable to have a usage guide for getting Ship APs working with PLCS/SE

 

RW: Demonstrating usage is important.  They are using 203 which is a huge improvement over IGES/DXF, but they haven’t got round to using 218 which would add more functionality.

 

Korea:  do comment on 227.  PDM Schema in PLCS is useful for BOM and other properties of ship structures.  AP233

 

In summary, there was some support for looking into PLCS further, particularly how they it could work with the ship APs, the need for AP233 was less clear.  Ideally a study should be done to examine the business needs for the 2 APs within the marine community.

Next meeting

 

The next meeting is scheduled for Fort Lauderdale.  It was felt that there would not be a need for a only T23 meeting.  T23 members are interested in liaison with manufacturing, plant spatial configuration, and other APs identified in the T 23 plan (Annex K) so the chair will distribute to the T23 community a list of relevant activities (e.g. AP227, PLCS, AP233) which will be happening there and individual T23 members can liaison with those projects to represent the ship building community and report on their activities at the Bath England meeting.

 

43rd

2004-07-04/09

Bath, England

44th

2004-10-03/08

Seattle WA, USA

45th

2005-02-27/03-04

Lillehammer, Norway

46th

2005 (Summer)

Valencia, Spain

47th

2005 (Fall)

China