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Step-NC Application for Steel Production in Shipbuilding

  • Step-NC Application for Steel Production in Shipbuilding
Overview

Step-NC Application for Steel Production in Shipbuilding

Project Team:

  • Step Tools, Inc.
  • General Dynamics Electric Boat

2006

NSRP ASE Investment: $77K

Objective:

This project reviewed the applicability of STEP Application Protocol 238 (STEP-NC) to plate cutting for the shipbuilding industry. STEP-NC is an exchange medium between CAM systems and numerically controlled manufacturing equipment that was originally developed to support turning/milling operations. STEP-NC defines the manufacturing operations at an abstract level that is not machine dependent, making it ideal as a neutral exchange medium. The project also submits that in order to provide an architecture that truly enables pluggable component systems, the processing of yard-specific rules must be centralized using explicitly defined manufacturing rule sets. This, coupled with a central data repository based on the existing STEP schemas, provides a consistent means of managing and accessing shipbuilding information.

Key Deliverables:

Final Report – Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited

   NSRP is co-funded by the U.S. Shipbuilding Industry and U.S. Navy

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