N U P A S - C A D M A T I C S O F T W A R E N E W S 1/2005

for intelligent
shipbuilding!

IN THIS ISSUE:

Norilsk Fukuoka Ship- Vietnamese Designed for NUPAS-

breaks the Yard chooses desigers use distributed CADMATIC
ice in the NUPAS- NUPAS- project design implemented
Arctic CADMATIC CADMATIC work in Russia
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 Dear reader,

It is our pleasure to present you with the

latest edition of NUPAS-CADMATIC NEWS.
In the early days CAD/CAE/CAM
Globally
software was mainly developed to reduce
man hours in the design, engineering and
distributed
production of ships. This is still a valid
justification with the current functionality of
projects
NUPAS-CADMATIC. An increasing number
of new clients are however also choosing
our software due to the increased flexibility
we have developed. Ship owners, ship
designers and shipyards/shipbuilders now
see the benefits of using our products as
an integrated solution.
The possibility to share 3D information
during the design phase of vessels means
that both owners and designers increasingly
use NUPAS-CADMATIC software not only
as a design tool but also as a communication
and discussion tool. This results in better
quality from design to the end product while
reducing costs.
Cadmatic and Numeriek Centrum
Groningen are pleased to see that our long-
term cooperation has resulted in the DESIGN OFFICE
efficiency and quality gains we expected.
We feel very confident that potential clients SHIPYARD
will recognize the development approach
SHIPOWNER
we took to achieve this new and wider usage
of our systems. Our focus on the global
CLASSIFICATION
distribution and concurrent use of our
software in shipbuilding projects will make SUBCONTRACTORS
the NUPAS-CADMATIC software suite even
more useful SUPPLIERS
The management and employees of
both Numeriek Centrum Groningen and
Cadmatic are highly dedicated to serving
you with future developments that make your
shipbuilding even more attractive and
efficient.
In this newsletter we are happy to
present you with our new software
developments and news regarding the
experiences of several NUPAS-CADMATIC
clients.

NUPAS-CADMATIC Management

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Aker Finnyards, the Finnish part of
Aker Yards shipbuilding Group,
received an order for an Arctic
containership from Russian MMC
Norilsk Nickel last year. The new
14,500 dwt container ship will be
assembled at the Helsinki yard from
where it will be handed over to the
client in February 2006. The cargo
part of the hull, forward of the
engine room bulkhead, will be built
at the Group yard Aker Ostsee in
Germany. Official delivery will take
place after ice trials in the Russian
Kara Sea.
Norilsk Nickel is one
of the world’s largest
producers of nickel.
The ship owner intends to use the vessel
for the transportation of containerized nickel
pallets from Dudinka on the Yenisey River
in the Russian Arctic to Murmansk. The
traffic along the Northern Sea Rout will be
year-round and the diesel-electric ship is
designed to operate without icebreaker
assistance in most ice conditions. In the
most difficult ice conditions it will maneuver
stern first, a feature patented by Aker Arctic
Technology in Finland.
Major design task
proceeds well
Elomatic Marine Engineering has been
commissioned for various design tasks by
Aker Finnyards. “Last year we did machinery
and HVAC basic design work for the yard
and continued last autumn with an order for
detailed design and construction drawings,”
Raino Kallio, Manager of the Machinery and
HVAC depar tment at Elomatic Marine
Engineering, told NUPAS-CADMATIC News.
“This also includes deck outfitting design
such as the entire deck-outfitting design for
the aft part of the ship. We have been
commissioned to do the detailed design
and construction drawings for the entire
machinery area with the exception of the
pump room, engine room and casing. These
include spaces like the pod room with hull
tanks, emergency diesel and accumulator
spaces, deck stores, incinerator room, two
electric switchboard rooms, the separator
spaces, harbor diesel-engine room and
workshop areas.”
Elomatic Marine Engineering is using
the latest version of the NUPAS-CADMATIC
The Norilsk Arctic container ship project –
the first design project made
with NUPAS-CADMATIC
version 5
The new diesel-electric container ship for
Norilsk Nickel. Elomatic Marine used
NUPAS-CADMATIC Version 5 in its design
work for Aker Finnyards, the builder.
CAD/CAE/CAM software (version 5) for this can be seen in the efficiency of our work.”
major design task. The project includes 3D “One specific thing I want to point out,”
modeling of spaces such as piping design Kallio continues, “is that it is now much
and the production of more than 100 easier than before to transfer design work
construction drawings. between several participating designers.
“Altogether, we have sixteen designers The “ownership” change of specific areas
working with hull, deck outfitting and is now very simple. This is very important
machinery design. Ten of these people work on a project like this, with more than 100
with machinery design,” Kallio said. “The drawings that have to be updated with new
work is proceeding very well with version equipment during the design process. It is
5. This is definitely an improved version of crucial that several designers can work on
the NUPAS-CADMATIC software and this the same areas concurrently. This improves
work load and the production of drawings
is faster. The new COS object storage design
Arctic containership *) makes this possible.”
for MMC Norilsk Nickel
Weekly follow up meetings
using eBrowser
Main particulars:
Length, overall abt. 168.6 m “Our client is Aker Finnyards’ shipyard in
Breadth 23.1 m Helsinki, where we deliver our drawings and
Draft at dwl 9.0 m part listings. The customer can follow and
Deadweight 14.500 tonnes control the progress of our design work by
Number of 20 ft using the e-Browser function. At weekly
TEU containers 650
meetings with the yard, the eBrowser is the
Gross tonnage abt. 16.000
Icebreaking capacity 1.5 m level ice perfect tool for visualizing the project. The
(with a snow layer eBrowser feature can easily be utilized in
of 20 cm) production planning at the shipyard, if the
Machinery diesel-electric,
propulsion azimuthing electric yard wishes.” project manager Kallio
concludes.
Main engines 3 x Wärtsilä 12V32
Designers’ and administrators’
Propulsion 1 x 13 MW Azipod views on version 5
Classification Russian Maritime
Register Tommi Henriksson, project designer at
Ice Class LU 7
Elomatic Marine Engineering, is also the
system administrator for the NUPAS-
CADMATIC software in this project. “When
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 implementing version 5, we decided to
rebuild our entire standard component
library, instead of using the one we had
gathered in various data bases over the
years. This was a convenient moment to
update our libraries. In the start-up phase
of version 5, some more work is required
by IT support or system administration, but
the resulting benefits make it well worth
investing this time,” said Henriksson.
As Elomatic Marine Engineering is part
of the same Group as Cadmatic, the
designers at the engineering company
worked in close cooperation with the
software developers of version 5, and were
able to exchange experiences and give
NUPAS-CADMATIC software
feedback. This enabled the thorough testing used in Japanese chemical
of version 5. tanker design
“One of the main benefits of the new
version is the common database, the Nupas-
Fukuoka Shipbuilding Co., Nagasaki Shipyard.
Cadmatic Object Storage (COS), as the
NYK Engineering and NUPAS- design ef ficiency has become ver y
work is not tied to a specific work station
CADMATIC signed a co-operation important and this is why we started a 3D
anymore. Piping design for example can
agreement on sales, marketing and designing project with NYK Engineering.”
now be more easily divided among several
support representation of NUPAS- A 19,000 dead-weight chemical tanker
designer s,” Henriksson continued.
CADMATIC 3D ship design software of our own design is under construction in
“Concurrent design work in the same area
in Japan last year. This co-operation Nagasaki. Fukuoka is currently working on
is possible now and the updated design
is handled by NYKE’s branch office the design of other ship projects as well.
and drawings are available for everyone.
in Sasebo. NYKE Sasebo also offers The keel laying will take place in mid 2006
“The biggest benefit with version 5, I think,
engineering services for ship design and the ship delivery is scheduled for
is its flexibility. If I wish to keep control of
projects to clients in Japan. February 2007.
an entire area from my workstation, I can
do it whether I am next door or on the other Mr. Ikezaki is in charge of basic design,
The first project NYKE Sasebo ship performance calculation and improving
side of the globe.”
designed entirely with NUPAS- the design efficiency at the shipyard. He is
“Our designers and I have found it very
CADMATIC is the engine room of also responsible for the project design work
easy to get used to the new system of
a chemical tanker for Fukuoka Shipbuilding done at NYK Engineering using NUPAS-
version 5. The feedback has been good
Co., Ltd. The work included piping and CADMATIC.
with not much time spent on non-productive
instrumentation diagrams, machinery layout “The whole engine room detailed design
work. I personally thought it would be more
and piping design and production is now for the first time being done with
difficult to get used to the new way of
documentation including pipe spool NUPAS-CADMATIC software. Hull outfitting
thinking. No special training is required to
drawings. NUPAS-CADMATIC News talked will also be partly done using the software.
begin working with version 5 if you are used
to Mr. Eisuke Ikezaki at Fukuoka Shipbuilding As this is the first project using NUPAS-
to working with the previous version. This is
about this project. CADMATIC, the efficiency improvement
a excellent benefit,” concludes Henriksson.
Fukuoka Shipbuilding was founded in potential is not so rapidly realised, but I
1947 and has a long shipbuilding tradition. expect to see much improved efficiency in
Fukuoka Shipbuilding has designed and our work soon,” says Ikezaki.
*) NUPAS-CADMATIC Object Storage (COS)
built various types of ships over the years “Japanese shipyards often use unique
is a completely new data architecture that
of which chemical tankers in particular have and original methods in construction and
came with version 5. Shared data such as
become the company’s main product. design. If NUPAS-CADMATIC understands
the component librar y and project
“Fukuoka Shipbuilding star ted its and caters for these individual demands
information is now stored in databases
Nagasaki shipyard in 2004,” Mr. Ikezaki, the software will soon spread across Japan.
hosted by a database server.
Assistant Manager at Fukuoka, told NUPAS- With this in mind I expect that NYK
CADMATIC News. “We now have two Engineering will play a major role. The
shipyards in Fukuoka and Nagasaki that component library system, when fully
build about five ships per year at each implemented, will also be very important for
shipyard. As a result of this expansion us.” concludes Mr. Ikezaki.

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Break-through in Turkey -
ARTI Engineering chooses
NUPAS-CADMATIC
ARTI Engineering is engaged in ship
design projects for shipyards and
other marine design offices. The
company was founded in 2001, and
is located in the Tuzla Bay area
where the majority of Turkish
shipbuilding takes place. This year,
ARTI Engineering decided to acquire
NUPAS-CADMATIC Hull- and Piping
licenses.
Gökhan Ulusoy, founder and
manager of ARTI, talked to N-C
News about this decision and the
latest activities at the company. The young
company is now, among other tasks,
designing a 1,700 dwt IMO II class chemical
tanker for the DESAN shipyard.
“The design of the chemical tanker
includes all classification drawings including
modeling, nesting, isometrics etc.. Another
project we are working on is a 17,000 dwt
chemical tanker project for the Yardimci
Shipyard and have almost finished the
design work of a fishing vessel.“..........
“There are currently three engineers
working on these projects using NUPAS-
CADMATIC. Two of these work with Hull
and one with Piping. I got aquatinted with
NUPAS-CADMATIC at the SMM trade
exhibition in Hamburg in 2000 and was very
impressed with its features. We used other
types of cad software for our design and
CAM work before but these were not as
efficient as required. It was rather easy to
make design mistakes with our previous
Gökhan Ulusoy with collegues at ARTI Engineering. He
was educated and post graduated at the Istanbul
Tecnnical University. After some professional experience
in shipbuilding industry, he worked as a project manager
in one of the biggest design offices in Turkey for three
years, after which he founded ARTI Engineering.
system and modeling and nesting were very
time consuming. We tested NUPAS-
CADMATIC thoroughly last year with a rented
license and subsequently decided to buy
the Hull and Piping licenses. If you are a
designer and you are in charge of doing
modelling and nesting the best solution is
preparing class drawings in NUPAS-
CADMATIC. This means that you do the job
once and the entire model is ready for cutting
when the class approves the construction
drawings,“ Ulusoy said.
“We are very satisfied with the training
and support we have received from NUPAS-
CADMATIC and they meet development
demands“ Ulusoy said. Flatbars for example
are usually cut into nesting together with
other plates in Turkey. We needed flatbar
ARTI Engineering was the first design office in Turkey
that started using NUPAS-CADMATIC. The engineering
office currently designs chemical tankers. The picture
shows the 3D model of a 1,700 dwt chemical tanker for
DESAN shipyard in Turkey.
coding and NUPAS-CADMATIC supplied
us with this as a new development.“
“The shipbuilding industry in Turkey is
growing very fast. There are not many
qualified and experienced engineers or
draftsmen in Turkey and we thus need to
use more efficient tools like NUPAS-
CADMATIC. I believe that our company can
grow very fast, parallel with the growth of
our shipbuilding industry,“ concludes Ulusoy.
B u s i n e s s N e w s
Turkish
shipbuilders
sign up for
Nupas-Cadmatic
Tuzla Bay - Istanbul : a major concentration
of shipyards
In April two Turkish shipyards and a ship
design office in Istanbul signed up for the
use of Nupas-Cadmatic as their 3D ship
design and engineering software. During a
busy Nupas-Cadmatic seminar recently held
in Istanbul, the local shipbuilding industry
was visibly impressed by the cost and time
savings that can be achieved with Nupas-
Cadmatic software. The orderbook of the
Turkish shipbuilding industry is well filled
and the amount of newbuilding orders is
increasing rapidly.
Th e n e w u s e r s a r e YA R D I M C I
SHIPYARD, EREGLI SHIP BUILDING
INDUSTRY AND TRADE CO. and ARTI
Engineering. Yardimci Shipyard and ARTI
Engineering are situated in Istanbul. Eregli
Shipyard, a new shipyard under construction
and nearly operational, is situated in the
Karadeniz Eregli region.
All three companies acquired the
complete set of Nupas-Cadmatic Hull,
Piping and Machinery modules....................
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 Tauh Marine Consultants Inc. (TMC)
is engaged in marine supervision
tasks of client newbuildings in
Korea and in consulting and
engineering tasks. These include
providing technical specifications
and supplying material packages
for newbuildings and ships under
repair and also providing shipyard
technology services. Ship design
services are offered through closely
linked partners.

In the latter part of the 1990’s,

TMC and its partners began
providing both basic and
detailed engineering services the PT
Batamarin shipyards on the Batam Island
of Indonesia. It laid the foundation for what
TMC and its partners are today: a leading NUPAS-Cadmatic
NUPAS-Cadmatic
pioneer in developing shipyards by providing used
used in
in VINASHIN’s
VINASHIN’s
advice regarding both shipbuilding
technology and ship design. TMC has up
“Diamond
“Diamond 53”53”
to date supervised some 25 newbuilding Bulk
Bulk Carrier
Carrier Project
Project
projects at Korean shipyards for foreign
owners, including crude oil tankers, product
in
in Vietnam
Vietnam
and chemical tankers, bulk carriers,
container ships and an offshore platform.

Largest shipbuilding project

in Vietnam

TMC’s largest project to date is the provision

of the entire project consulting and
engineering services for the Vietnam
Shipbuilding Industr y Cor poration
(VINASHIN) in a newbuilding project of a
53,000 dwt bulk carrier “Diamond 53“.
Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Corporation
is one of the largest state-owned
corporations in Vietnam, and has 52 The 53,000 dwt “Diamond 53” ultra-
handymax double hull bulk carrier
subsidiaries including 20 shipyards and 32
other companies with about 15,000
employees. VINASHIN participates in four
other joint-venture companies including the
biggest Shipyard in the Southeast Asia, a
joint venture with Hyundai. The “Diamond
53“ project is the largest newbuilding project
ever for VINASHIN.
The ship owner is the Cardiff-, Shanghai-
and Hamburg-based Graig Group. In early
2004, Graig Group placed five orders and Vietnamese designers are trained in using Nupas-
Cadmatic at TMC’s office in Hanoi. Mr. Pekka Puranen
secured ten options for its Diamond 53 is a software trainer from Nupas-Cadmatic in Finland.
handymax double-hulled bulker with

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VINASHIN. ‘The orders are part of a
ground-breaking strategic alliance that
will see the Vietnamese yards expand the
range and quality of their output, drawing
on Graig’s long standing experience in
building high quality ships in China,’ Graig
CEO Hugh Williams said when publishing
the order. In 2003, Graig placed an order
for Diamond 53 bulk carriers in China.
Two ships were ordered from Shanghai's
New Centur y yard, Athens-based
Thenamaris has taken two Graig orders
from the same yard, and Scandinavian
interests have confirmed, through Graig,
three orders at Shanghai's Chengxi yard.
The first delivery took place at the turn of
the year. A total of nine options have been
granted by these two shipyards.
The Diamond 53 ultra-handymax double
hull bulk car rier design has been
developed jointly by Graig and Denmark’s
Carl Bro – Dwinger Marineconsult. The
ship has a length of 190 meters, a breadth
of 32.26 meters and a scantling draft of
12.5 meters. Diamond 53 is a geared,
wide hatched, 53,000 dwt handymax bulk
carrier with a double hull and a high
specification intended to address the
current concerns raised by IMO/IACS
around bulk carrier safety. The vessel has
5 cargo holds with a capacity of 64,000
qu.m. and can reach a speed of 14 knots.
The classification is DnV 1A1. According
to the owner, the Diamond 53 design offers
owners and charterers major operational
cost savings, while significantly enhancing
safety and environmental protection. This
series means that owners can have that
at a competitive price.
outfitting and electric production.’
Nupas-Cadmatic 3D design software is
used on this joint-venture project by TMC
par tners and staf f, including hired
Vietnamese designers working at TMC’s
Hanoi office. Kim continues; ‘This project
was newly designed according to latest
IMO bulk carrier regulations. This means
that the technical specifications and
arrangement of machinery, outfitting, and
pipelines in the engine room are technically
demanding. For this reason we require an
efficient design tool. In addition, in this
project, we carry out piping design in
Vietnam with Vietnamese engineers,
because education of Vietnamese designers
in designing pipelines is one of our services,
so we need some special tools for piping
design.’
‘At our office in Hanoi, we have seven
Vietnamese designers assisted by one
Nupas-Cadmatic system administrator and
two Korean designers,’ Kim said. ‘Altogether
we have six Plant Modeller modules for 3D
modelling and two Piping modules for
isometric and spool drawings, in addition
to some interface modules. We do piping
design for whole areas of the vessel
including the engine room, double bottom,
and decks.’
fabrication and installation. We especially
like the following features: It is very easy to
lear n, which is good, because the
production information should be very
quickly created by Vietnamese designers
according to building schedule. It is very
flexible and it is easy to set up data libraries.
This is a great benefit as all the data and
library should be newly established
according to the Chinese industrial standard
adopted for this project. Nupas-Cadmatic
features an open architecture and can be
easily interfaced with other software used
in designing other parts.
‘Although the Diamond 53 project is being
realized in China, completely new production
drawings have to be made for use in
Vietnam. The ship owner also wanted to
improve the piping arrangement especially
in the engine room. TMC is creating a
completely new piping design,’ concludes
Kim.
Namtrieu Shipyard near Haiphong is one the two
shipyards building several of these Diamond 53 series
vessels according to production information made with
NUPAS-CADMATIC by TMC

Major design and training

project with Nupas-Cadmatic Vietnamese designers in NUPAS-CADMATIC software
training in Hanoi

Mr. Seung-Tae Kim, director of the

‘There are several reasons for using
consulting and engineering division of the
Nupas-Cadmatic on this project,’ explains
TMC project organization, told NUPAS
Kim; ‘This is one of the first times piping
CADMATIC News about the project; ‘The
design for production is being carried out
work of TMC and its partners in the
in Vietnam. There is thus very little
“Diamond 53-project“ includes providing
experience of manufacturing standards,
construction technology and production
working practices and installation
planning, organization of yard task force
procedures. The software used should
t e a m s a n d p r ov i d i n g d e l i ve r y
therefore provide complete production
documentation as well as production
drawings and information for procurement,
drawings and information of hull, piping,

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 design work between several participating
designers is now efficient and safe. The
NUPAS-CADMATIC Version 5 database centric client-server system

Designed for distributed enables controlled and concurrent design

by multiple users in different locations.
project design work Shared data such as the common com-
ponent library, project set-up, and project
data (3D model and documents), is now
stored in databases hosted by a database
server. The database architecture has been
optimized for managing 3D design data. In
large ship design projects it is crucial that
several designers can work in the same
areas concurrently, thereby shortening the
design process and expediting the
production of drawings.
Database replication and other technical
details are handled "under the hood" by the
CoDesigner module. This makes it possible
to add new design offices to a project with
a few clicks. All object data is accessed
via a check in/check out procedure that
guarantees that only one designer can
modify the same object (ship area) at any
given time. The data is updated via a direct
database connection or via a file exchange.
A new project site is easily set up via
interactive set-up tools.
The work is no longer tied to a specific
workstation. It is as a result much easier to
Database centric architecture divide design work among several designers
Distributed design and part outsourcing
and the updated design and drawings are
have become common elements of project
The new NUPAS-CADMATIC Object Storage available for everyone.
design work in contemporary shipbuilding.
(COS) database - centric architecture, Simple and safe design sharing
Outsourcing was initially introduced by
with built-in support for concurrent and systems
shipyards to create extra design capacity
remotely distributed project work, ensures
while some yards and marine design offices Project work files can be sent from a remote
that system usage and administration is
have always relied on outsourcing for areas site to the main design office using
easier and more effective. Transferring
of their design work. The use of external
design work has however increased greatly
in recent times. This is partly due to varying
workloads at the yards and design offices
but is especially the result of an increase
in outsourcing the design of complete turn-
key areas of vessels.
NUPAS-CADMATIC has reacted to this
major change by further developing its 3D
design software for machinery, piping and
outfitting in such a way as to facilitate project
distribution. Version 5, the latest version of
the popular design software, features new
project data handling structures and
database architecture that lays a solid
foundation for distributed project design
work and further development.
The main site co-ordinates design activities in a distributed project. The sites can create any number of
sub-sites. Data updates are conducted via a direct database server connection or by exchanging compressed
update files.

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compressed files in a batch process and
as such a high bandwidth connection is not
necessarily needed. System administration
of distributed projects at remote design
sites is also minimized.
The eBrowser application allows easy
sharing of 3D project information between
designers, project management, ship
owners and sub-contractors and is also a
useful tool in production planning.
Designed for security
In distributed environments information se-
curity is an important issue. The system sup-
por ts customizable user profiles with
different levels of access to databases and
system configurations. Deletions are now
controlled in a way that makes it impossible
to accidentally remove any library data that
is being used in projects. All client-server
and ser ver-ser ver communication is
conducted via a proprietary protocol that is
less vulnerable to attacks than more
common protocols.
The designer uses and instance of the COS database
library, applied for the current project.
The added features of Version 5
open up new business
opportunities for its users.
PBSP Systems, the new Nupas-
Cadmatic reseller in Poland
PBSP Systems is an engineering
company based in Gdansk,
Poland. In 2004 the company
entered into a reseller-,
marketing- and user training
agreement with Nupas-Cadmatic.
There is a growing amount of
Nupas-Cadmatic 3D ship
design clients in Poland.
PBSB now assists clients locally and
supports the N-C marketing teams in
F i n l a n d a n d Th e N e t h e r l a n d s.
PBSP Systems was established in
early 2004 by Piotr Bilon. Mr. Bilon is a
shipbuilding engineer and an
experienced user of the Nupas-Cadmatic
software. He gained his experience while
w o r k i n g a s a N u p a s - C a d m at i c
administrator and ship design project
manager at one of the client companies.
PBSP SYSTEMS’ main activities include:
Nupas-Cadmatic mar keting and
promotion, user training for Nupas-
Cadmatic, implementation of Nupas-
Cadmatic systems at customer sites, and
customer support including Nupas-
Cadmatic project administration at
customer sites.
Mr. Bilon gave an overview of PBSP’s
activities to N-C News; ‘We created the
Polish Nupas-Cadmatic manuals and
standards libraries. We keep the libraries
updated and market and deliver them to
shipbuilding customers in Poland. PBSP
is also engaged in producing software
applications with Nupas-Cadmatic that
cover the specific needs of the Polish
shipbuilding sector. Our company also works
directly with shipyards by of fering
engineering services using Nupas-Cadmatic
to the local shipbuilding industry. We provide
our customers with experienced Nupas-
Cadmatic designers to strengthen their
design teams or act as a sub-constructor
for shipyards or large design offices.’
There are currently ten major customers
in Poland using Nupas-Cadmatic. These
include shipyards, design offices and also
the Gdansk University of Technology. (In
the previous Newsletter, the Ship Repair
Yard "Remontowa" S.A. was presented.)
‘An important activity at PBSP is the
offering of Nupas-Cadmatic user training
to our customers. The administration training
is led by experts from Cadmatic’s Customer
Service. This is a very convenient solution,
as the software users are trained by Polish
instr uctor s that know the specific
shipbuilding production needs in Poland,
and the administrators are trained by the
people that will support them in the future,’
Bilon said. In co-operation with the Gdansk
University PBSP SYSTEMS also conducts
periodical training for students.
‘The Polish market is very promising for
us,‘ Bilon continues. ‘We have many
experienced designers and shipyards with
long traditions in the shipbuilding business.
The Nupas-Cadmatic software has proven
that it comprehensively covers the require-
ments of different customers in this sector.’
More information about the activities and
services of PBSP Systems and Nupas-
Cadmatic can be found on the Polish
language web site or by contacting PBSP
directly.
PBSP SYSTEMS
Autoryzowane Centrum Cadmatic
ul. Waly Piastowskie 1
80-958 Gdansk
tel. (+48 58) 307 44 50
mobile: (+48) 500 245 680
e-mail: piotr.bilon@cadmatic.pl
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NUPAS-CADMATIC successfully implemented at
PetroNed and Petrobalt in Russia
Mr. Georgy V. Taritsa is Managing director of Petrobalt design bureau in St. Petersburg, Russia
The successful implementation of
NUPAS-CADMATIC at PetroNed and
Petrobalt was concluded in 2004.
Twenty-four specialists in both
companies are now using the
software. Mr. Georgy V. Taritsa,
Managing director at Petrobalt,
talked to us about this process and
the latest news.
We are very satisfied with the
results we have attained by using
the NUPAS-CADMATIC software
at our offices. This software has some
significant advantages. It is firstly a very
straightforward and logical tool and it takes
very little time to learn how to use it. It is
furthermore very easy to set the software
to generate documentation of different types
and styles which makes it easy for us to
work with different customers in Russia and
abroad.
At PetroNed we have already completed
some ship design projects with NUPAS-
CADMATIC, and are now proceeding well
with some other design tasks. The first
project using NUPAS-CADMATIC was the
complete modeling and preparation of
workshop documentation for a 32 m yacht.
This was done last year. This yacht is now
under construction at the Yaroslavl shipyard.
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Russian - Portuguese NUPAS-
CADMATIC cooperation
Three engineers from Petrobalt, skilled in
using the NUPAS-CADMATIC software,
worked during a five-month period at the
ENVC shipyard (Estaleiros Navais de Viana
do Castelo, S.A.) in Portugal, with the yard
design department on the development of
a patrol vessel project. ENVC is a user of
NUPAS-CADMATIC and the co-operation
with ENVC continues. From May this year
Petrobalt will handle a big part of a new
heavy lift vessel project to be built at this
shipyard. This will be done by PetroNed
in the St. Petersburg office using NUPAS-
CADMATIC.
Project management using
eBrowser at the Baltic Shipyard
NUPAS-CADMATIC was also used for the
Stena Ro-Ro project 1293 which is now
under construction at the Baltic Shipyard in
St. Petersburg (Baltiyskiy zavod). We did
parts of the hull design and all the ship
system documentation. Four licenses of
NUPAS-CADMATIC eBrowser were installed
at the shipyard; in the piping workshop,
design office and in the office of the project
manager. It proved to be a very good tool
for coordinating the project during its design
and construction phases.
PetroNed represents NUPAS-
CADMATIC in Russia
PetroNed has been the official NUPAS-
CADMATIC software representative in Russia
since 2004. It now markets and sells the
software, supports local users and also
tunes the software to meet the specific
requirements of Russian customers
regarding the type of vessel and the forms
needed in shipbuilding documentation.
The joint venture PetroNed is established
with the support of the Dutch Ministry of
Economic Affairs (EVD). Since 2001 the
Russian shipbuilding industry has grown
very rapidly . This growth is continuing and
almost all shipyards are booked with orders
until 2007-2009. Many shipyards and design
companies are investing significant amounts
in moder n technologies and in new
managing and ship design software. Many
of them find the NUPAS-CADMATIC software
easy-to-use and attractive for implementation
in their business activities. We expect to
have more NUPAS-CADMATIC users in
Russia this year, says Vladimir Voitannikov,
M a n a g i n g D i r e c t o r o f Pe t r o N e d .
Baltsudoproect also uses
NUPAS-CADMATIC in joint
icebreaker design work
The Baltic Shipyard signed a contract with
state-owned ROSMORPORT to build two
icebreakers for Baltic Sea duty. The basic
design for this project was developed by
the Baltsudoproect design office. The
delivery of the first vessel is scheduled for
2006.
In order to be ready for keel laying by
May 2005, it was decided to join the
engineering forces of the shipyard’s design
office with the Petrobalt and Baltsudoproect
design offices for developing classification
and workshop documentation.
Baltsudoproect decided to implement
NUPAS-CADMATIC after studying the
software and on recommendation of the
Baltic Shipyard. The recommendation
centered around the quality of
documentation produced by Petrobalt and
PetroNed and resultant gains in efficiency.
It is beneficial to use common design
software in this joint design project. From
now on Baltsudoproect will use 14 licenses
for both Hull and Piping design. At a later
stage of the project they intend to double
this number.
Baltsudoproect Central Design
Office in operation since 1925
Our co-operation with Baltsudoproect and
the use of NUPAS-CADMATIC on this
icebreaker project will ensure that all
documentation is completed in time and
with good quality. We are very proud to have
a partner like Baltsudoproect, which is one
of the oldest and most famous design
companies in Russia.
The Baltsudoproect Central Design
Office was established in 1925, and in 1999
it merged with the Krylov Shipbuilding
Research Institute and became its affiliate.
During more than three-quarters of a century
since its foundation, the office has developed
more than 170 projects including such
unique projects as the space tracking ships
Kosmonavt Yuri Gagarin and Marshal
Nedelin, the world's first nuclear-powered
ice-strengthened lighter/container ship
Sevmorput, Russia's largest Krym tankers
of 150 000 dwt, ro-ro ships, sea rescue
ships, a great number of timber carriers,
different cargo ships and navy auxiliaries.
In April this year we arranged one week of NUPAS-
CADMATIC training for Baltsudoproect designers says
Mr. Vladimir Voitannikov, Managing Director of PetroNed.
We did our best to present all the advantages of the
software.
In the beginning of May, the contract for NUPAS-
CADMATIC software was signed between PetroNed and
Baltsudoproect. Mr. Valery Kireev, General Director at
The Baltsudoproect Central Design Bureau and Mr.
Vladimir Voitannikov of PetroNed signing the license
agreement.
Improved software integration
offers new uses for 3D design Pipe Support
New possibilities Designer
for basic design, - a new feature
accommodation-
and hull outfitting
With Hull version 5.1, the Nupas-
Cadmatic users receive completely
renewed integration between the
Hull and Piping & Outfitting
software modules.
One of the new integration tools in the Hull
module enables the hull designer to access
the library models of the Nupas-Cadmatic
Piping & Outfitting module directly and put The Pipe Support Designer is a new
the models in the 3D hull structure. The module of the NUPAS-CADMATIC
hull designer does not have to learn new Piping design software. This module
commands and merely uses the existing automatically produces dimension
commands which he is already familiar drawings of the pipe supports.
with like copy, move, rotate etc.
The new integration of fers new “Fukuoka Shipbuilding in Japan specifically
possibilities for 3D basic design. The 3D requested this as exact production drawings
model of the main engine for example can of piping supports were needed,” Matti
now be put in the 3D hull structure model Siltanen at NUPAS-CADMATIC in Finland
directly. As a result the hull designer is said. The idea behind Pipe Support Designer
now able to directly design a hull structure is the production of these drawings with
such as an engine foundation that the minimum amount of work.
corresponds to the 3D outfitting model........ The designer only needs to input the
According to Mr. Paul Filius, head of location of the supports and the drawings
R&D at Numeriek Centrum Groningen, the are automatically produced. They are
new integration will blur the boundaries naturally also included in the 3D model
between the different design disciplines design of the area. The dimensions of the
at the shipyard. "It is often a problem at primary and secondary supports that are
shipyards to decide which designers are based on the pipe dimensions are also
responsible for different design activities. automatically created. “At NUPAS-
By making the tools more flexible the users CADMATIC we try to automate routines as
get more freedom in this regard." much as possible. This is an example of a
This working method makes the design very efficient improvement,” Siltanen said.
of 3D accommodation and 3D hull outfitting
structures easier as well. Several Nupas-
Cadmatic clients currently use the Plantek
module to create 2D accommodation
drawings. With the new development it will
be possible to model accommodation in
3D directly in the hull structure model,
thereby reducing 2D drafting.
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