Zamil Offshore to Use SENER FORAN Ship Design System
 BILBAO,
Spain, May 4, 2009 - Zamil Offshore Services has entered into an agreement
with the Spanish company Sener Ingeniería y Sistemas S.A. for the permanent
license to use the FORAN CAD/CAM System in their shipbuilding activities. With
this, Zamil Offshore Services has taken the steps to establish a ship design
centre at its shipyard in Damman, Saudi Arabia.
The agreement includes the implementation of the complete FORAN System
comprising: Forms generation and Naval Architecture, Hull Structure,
Outfitting, Electrical and Advanced Design and Drafting. Zamil personnel
have received on-site training in all the disciplines of the FORAN System
during the last part of 2008. Zamil is now in a position to cover the total
process of design for Ships and the design centre will soon be fully
operative.
Zamil shipbuilding will use the FORAN System as a strategic business
application for support and further improvement of the ship design, construction
and integration activities at its shipbuilding site in Saudi Arabia.
With this new license agreement SENER continues in its line of making FORAN a
major player in the field of ship design and production software in the Middle
East.
About Zamil Offshore Services
Zamil Offshore Services has recently been separated from Zamil Operations &
Maintenance, to focus on their core activities. It is the largest offshore
services company in the Middle East. Zamil Offshore has almost 30 years of
experience in ship repair and conversion and it operates in King Abdul Aziz Port
marine yard in Damman. Zamil´s shipyard is specialized in repairing offshore and
port service vessels, and in 2002 it ventured into shipbuilding and since 2002
until now they have successfully built 17 vessels (2 supply vessel 55 M, 3 Port
Tugs, 9 Diesel Elec. Anchor Handling Vessels, One DP2 Diesel Elec. Anchor
Handling Vessels, One DP Anchor Handling UT-Design) and they have currently
ongoing 5 Projects at the same time (3 Vessels DP Anchor Handling UT-Design,
Buoy laying vessel and diving support vessel), also now they have the largest
fleet of OSVs in the middle east.
The new company has in mind a big expansion beyond Saudi Arabia, with new
representative offices in Qatar and Singapore. Zamil Offshore Services wants to
expand to West Africa and Indian waters in the future, and also to make joint
ventures with important companies in Europe, Also the company has a huge
expansion within KING ABDUL-AZIZ Port by increasing the space and facilities of
the yard by more than double the current available facilities and capacity and
it is expected to operate the new yard with the new facilities by 2011.
About SENER Ingeniería y Sistemas, S.A.
SENER is an engineering, consultancy and integration systems company with the
main objective to provide the most efficient technological solutions, with
emphasis on the innovation, quality and independence. Since its foundation in
1956, SENER has become an engineering company of reference in Spain in the areas
of Aerospace, Civil and Architecture, Power and Processes and Marine.
SENER Ingenieria y Sistemas, S.A. staff is around 2,000 people and the
company has offices in Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Valencia, Seville, Buenos
Aires (Argentina), Algiers (Algeria), Lisbon, Mexico DF, Okayama (Japan), San
Francisco (USA) y Warsaw (Poland).
SENER Ingenieria y Sistemas is part of SENER Gupo de Ingeniería, the largest
engineering group in Spain with more than 4,500 staff and a turnover of more
than 753 million euros.
For more information, visit http://www.sener.es
About FORAN
FORAN is a totally integrated computer system specifically developed for the
design, production and engineering of ships. It comprises several main packages
(hull forms definition, naval architecture, hull structure, outfitting,
electrical), a number of common modules (build strategy, drafting, walk-through
design review, collaborative engineering), links with production equipment
(cutting machines, bending machines, robotic systems, etc.), interfaces to
management systems and its own integrated development environment.
Running on Windows workstations connected through LAN or WAN, FORAN permits a
fully interactive and concurrent definition of the ship 3D product model. The
most recent design information is available in Oracle database(s) for designers
of a wide range of complementary disciplines. When designing each ship part or
each sub-assembly, their production processes are defined too, thus enabling the
generation of custom-made, accurate and well-organized information for workshops
(drawings, material lists and direct input to production systems), with the
highest level of automation.
The current user base of the FORAN System consists of over 150 shipyards and
design offices located in 30 countries.
For more information, visit www.foran.es.
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