Faster and better quality construction design and engineering

During the creation of a 3D construction plan of a vessel with Nupas-Cadmatic, the designer is provided with a number of smart and efficient 3D tools that speed up the design phase significantly. Modifications become easier to handle and classification drawings are generated quickly and easily. The same 3D product model for the main construction is used for the following detailed engineering steps all the way up to and including detailed production information. Construction parts are only defined once in the 3D product model and they appear in all related projections and drawings. This ensures that the construction is always consistent, resulting in better quality engineering and exact production information.

With Nupas-Cadmatic the production data is automatically generated directly from the 3D model and when construction is defined by the engineer. This guarantees that the production data is always updated and consistent with the engineering data.

Intelligent user guidance

Nupas-Cadmatic integrates a special user interface that assists the engineer to reach the maximum efficiency and guides him through the whole engineering process. The Windows based menu system and the clear pop-up panels make the work easy. The specification driven database for all common yard standards like cutouts, brackets, endtypes etc. provides intelligent guidance during engineering. The system manager has straight access to all the configurable parameters and can decide together with the engineers which may or may not be used in the project.

Open system

Nupas-Cadmatic is an open system that can be customized by the user. The parametrical script language offers maximum flexibility for the system manager to provide the engineers with intelligent shipyard standards and to let everyone work according to these rules and regulations. In Nupas-Cadmatic user-definable report generators are used in all of the work preparation stages. With the help of these flexible reports Nupas-Cadmatic is also able to provide all the desired information for third party material management systems.

Improve design and save costs at the heart of the vessel

Nupas-Cadmatic design and engineering is based on intelligent specification driven functionality. Engineers can concentrate on lower production and material costs and on ease of installation and maintenance instead of being tied up laborious and non-productive tasks. All ship diagrams are designed based on an intelligent database that takes care of revision control as well as all related lists etc. The diagram information is the basis for 3D modelling and routing and any changes in diagrams are updated in the model.

The Nupas-Cadmatic database contains shipyard standards, production methods and facilities thereby automating these routine tasks and allowing greater opportunity for the designer's creativity and development. Machinery and Piping design with Nupas-Cadmatic is efficient in the use of material and space. Collision control eliminates collisions and considerably less time is needed to create pipe isometrics, spool drawings and listings. The accurate production information also reduces the amount of errors, time and material needed for pipe adjustment pieces.

Nupas-Cadmatic improves efficiency in design and engineering by cutting down error percentages. The shipyard can increase the degree of prefabrication and pre-outfitting and thus lower building costs. With concurrent engineering it is feasible to undertake piping and HVAC design not just in the engine room but also throughout the whole vessel.

Obtain remarkable savings both in design and production

In addition to the normal production data, like drawings and part lists, Nupas-Cadmatic also produces detailed information directly usable for automated manufacturing. The software produces ready-to-use digital information for numerically controlled work shop devices such as cutters, bending machines and welding robots. This reduces costs and shortens production times. The engineering information is always updated and correct while the production data can be output at the latest possible stage to include all the required modifications. The high quality 3D product model assures accurate production data and substantially reduces assembly errors.

Nupas-Cadmatic generates information that can be processed by the yard's logistics system. Each shipyard has their own specific needs and requirements for the use of the software and production information. Nupas-Cadmatic works with its customers to improve the way the production information is output and transferred from engineering to production. The use of a 3D ship model for work preparation and preprocessing creates obvious benefits. Laborious part coding from 2D drawings is no longer necessary and the designer can concentrate on defining the production means and required input data. This includes automatic nesting of steel plate parts for the DNC-cutting machines, automatic nesting of profiles and data generation for DNC-profile cutting and bending machines.

Prefabrication- and outfitting

Better quality engineering is greatly beneficial to the production process. It saves time and effort by increasing section prefabrication and pre-outfitting. Increased pre-outfitting and prefabrication reduces building time, leads to considerable savings in production and shorter delivery times.

Production information for hull and steel construction, piping and machinery

The numerical data produced with Nupas-Cadmatic can be used to control DNC-cutting machines in producing plates and profiles, NC profile bending machines, web lines for panels, shell plate bending machines and various production robots. In an automated pipe production workshop there is automated pipe storage, a computer guided transport line, an automatic cutting saw, pipe marking/labeling and DNC pipe bending machines

When a pipe isometric or spool drawing is produced, information is also generated and sent in numeric format directly to DNC pipe production. In addition to pipe geometry, other information such as pipeline and spool numbers, material, surface treatment, ring unit number, block number, installation phase, bolt hole orientation in flanges etc. is included in this data. Part of this information can be printed onto a label attached to the pipe. With the help of this direct link from Nupas-Cadmatic to numeric pipe production, processing of production data is no longer needed. Besides saving time and material, it also results in fewer mistakes in pipe production and assembly.

Information for assembly and installation

Nupas-Cadmatic provides you with logistics and installation information as well. It produces detailed documents for each work step, such as panel drawings, module drawings, etc. On-site eBrowser workstations are beneficial for installation personnel, since they can access all the required information from the single 3D ship model.