Overview
Rapid Adoption Project
Project Team:
ShipConstructor Software USA
Austal USA
Solavitek
Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility (CIV USN PHNSY & IMF)
Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY)
NSRP ASE INVESTMENT: $148K
Objective:
The goal of this project was to introduce new technology along with an automated process for the US shipbuilding and repair industry to provide a standard toolset suitable for the various electrical cable installation requirements to effectively manage shipboard cable installation, including testing, in a paperless environment. The toolset is the Advanced Mobile Universal Electrical Tooling (AMUET) platform offered by SOLAVITEK, which revolves around 4.0 digital manufacturing concepts and digital data infrastructure. AMUET 4.0 can interface with the various software and processes used in the US shipbuilding industry.
Overall, the RAP confirmed AMUET 4.0 agility to use existing client digital data to create an integrated paperless environment to support the planning, tasking, installation and testing of electrical cables and cabinets at shop level or shipboard with a smooth and efficient flow of manufacturing and quality control activities. The agility to configure AMUET organically and rapidly for different tasks by engineering, along with the portability of the platform given the pelican size footprint of testers/lenses for shipboard use by technician are game changers on how a ship will be built, modernized and maintained.
To request a copy of the Final Report please email nsrp@ati.org
Point of Contact:
Rob Parker, SSIUSA Robert.Parker@SSI-corporate.com