The paper describes the layout of an innovative automated steel workshop for the manufacturing of ship blocks, recently set up at Fincantieri's Monfalcone shipyard. The system implements the results of a European EUREKA. Research program called FASP-Flexible Automation in Ship Prefabrication. The Various working areas of the shop are described; for each of the new technologies being applied, the level of automation and integration with the other areas is discussed; the advantages obtained are compared with the best typical standards of a traditional production workshop. Inside a full automated workshop, the information support must have a high integration and flexibility level. the two main issues relevant to information technology are described, i.e.: the modular and integrated systems for the design, part program generation and transmission; and the production programming, management and control system.
National Shipbuilding Research Program. 1997 Ship Production Symposium, Paper Number 12: An Integrated Steel Workshop for Shipbuilding: A Real Application of Automation
1997
16 pages
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English