Italy's GP Service to Use SENER FORAN for Yachts Design
 MADRID,
Spain, Oct 15, 2009 - The Italian engineering company GP Service S.R.L. has entered into an agreement
with the Spanish SENER Ingeniería y Sistemas S.A. for the license to use the
FORAN CAD/CAM System in their ship design activities in Italy.
The agreement includes the implementation of the complete FORAN hull
structural package, forms generation and advanced design and drafting.
Designers from GP Service have received on-site training in the disciplines
of the FORAN System during 2008. GP Service is currently using FORAN to
develop the hull structure of yachts.
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.
The System has the backing of SENER’s in-house ship design capabilities,
with the resultant quality of the personnel associated with the System, of a
very high standard and very responsive in all disciplines and a complete
integration of the entire range of ship design disciplines: forms, naval
architecture and general arrangement, hull structure, outfitting,
electrical, build strategy, drafting, virtual reality & design review,
design change and access control, PLM.
Giuseppe Podella, designer at GP Service S.r.l. explains the advantages
of using FORAN:
“FORAN has been a great help for us for structure modeling, parts
subdivision and nesting drawings. At the beginning we made all these
activities manually, wasting a long time and with many possibilities of
error. This means to be very careful every time you have to modify
something, because in a metal ship every part leans to another and if you
modify a part, maybe you will need to change another one close to it.
We appreciate a lot the FORAN associatively because we often need to
modify the ship shape when we have already started modeling it, and the
associative features of FORAN allow to update all the model without to
rebuild the parts already created.
Moreover FORAN permits to have a complete materials and profiles
database, that is useful to extract data sheet containing precious
information like part name, weight and area of plates, that allows to know
costs and weight balancing of the whole vessel. After that, the nesting
module is a strong help to make the 3D model become real: the plates match
perfectly and the bending data permits to have the sheet ready to be welded.
Thanks FORAN we can save a lot of time and we are sure that output
project data are correct; the only task of designers is to plan the modeling
correctly at beginning, FORAN does the rest.”, Giuseppe Podella - Designer
at GP Service S.r.l.
About SENER
SENER is an engineering, consulting and systems integration company which
is an international reference point in the areas of Aerospace and Civil
Engineering and Architecture, Marine Engineering and Power and Process. It
has a workforce of more than 2,400 employees and a turnover of more than 385
million Euros. At present it has offices in Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao,
Valencia, Seville, Abu Dhabi, Algiers, Buenos Aires, Lisbon, Mexico City,
Okayama (Japan), San Francisco and Warsaw. SENER Ingeniería y Sistemas is
part of the SENER Engineering Group, which employs over 5,700 people and has
a turnover of 829 million Euros. For more information, visit
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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