Rodrigo Erick Escartín Pérez

Sister Ships Applicability in the Shipbuilding Enterprise CAD–PLM Toolset

 In a sister ships environment, each vessel or unit will have a CAD project.  There will exist a Class project to centralize the CAD locking and applicability data.  The existence of an item in the CAD project is considered as an item occurrence in that project.  Modifications on an item will be done from a single project, but all other projects sharing the item with the same applicability will also be locked, to prevent modification on them by other user.  Once the modification changes are applied, the CAD will update them in all projects sharing the items applicability (multi-save concept).  The use of applicability on an item within a sister ship series might be to all vessels (e.g. 1-UP), to all vessels newer than a specific one (e.g. 3-UP), to some vessels specifically (e.g. 1-UP), a combination of the above (e.g. 1-UP) and if no applicability is set, it means “effective for all vessels” (1-UP).