Process Planning System of CIM for Shipbuilding

Abstract

To make the shipbuilding an attractive industry, the CIM is now focus of attention, and Ship and Ocean Foundation is at present conducting a R&D project on pilot model in CIMS (CIM for shipbulding). CIMS consists of many application systems, and process planning system plays an important role among them.The Author proposed the process planning system in previous papers on how the information for the product should be represented and how the knowledge for process planning should be described systematically.In recent years, investment for the modernization of shipyard facilities is very active, and the mechanization of assembly shop is increased remarkably. In such a mechanized environment, the process planning from the viewpoint of physical distribution in a shop is essential.The aim of this paper is to apply previously proposed process planning expert system to the physical distribution in a shipyard, and new proposal in this paper is an expanded version of previous report.