DSME’s migration from Tribon to AVEVA MarineFive key reasons for making the move

Janis ChoiSenior Marketing Specialist, AVEVA Korea

Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., Ltd. (DSME), located at Okpo Bay in South Korea, is one of the world’s most productive shipbuilders. This famous shipyard has been responsible for the design and construction of some of the world’s most complex commercial and naval vessels, as well as offshore structures. DSME has recently migrated from AVEVA’s legacy Tribon shipbuilding system to the new AVEVA Marine™. This article examines why this premier shipbuilder chose to move to AVEVA Marine for their next generation of projects, by exploring the five main reasons for its decision.

Overview of DSME’s shipyards in Geoje Island, South Korea. Photo courtesy of DSME.

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‘AVEVA Marine will be popular in the engineering world, particularly with the offshore structure industry.’

The Tribon shipbuilding system had justifiably been second to none in marine 3D solutions since 1974. However, technology is changing fast, and projects are becoming ever more complex. At the same time, the depressed marine market is seeking new opportunities, and shipyards have to become more competitive if they are to be successful. The time had come for DSME to bid a grateful farewell to Tribon and prepare to welcome AVEVA Marine, the most innovative 3D design software suite for the shipbuilding and offshore industries.

AVEVA Marine is helping shipyards around the world maximise productivity and capability throughout the design and construction processes, while minimising costs and timescales for various types of projects. This is particularly true for very large scale and highly complex new-build projects.

DSME, faced with a range of challenges in recent years, recognised the need for a new solution to meet the complex requirements of the market. Specifications were changing frequently and project sizes were increasing considerably, and there were limits to Tribon’s ability to meet these new demands. After a thorough evaluation of various engineering and design systems, DSME chose AVEVA Marine.

The history of Tribon and DSME goes back to the 1980s. Before AVEVA acquired Tribon Solutions in 2004, DSME had already implemented Tribon, and was breaking shipbuilding industry records year on year. Over the last 25 years, an estimated 1,000 ships were designed and produced using the Tribon software.

DSME, always a pioneer, was moving on to the next phase in its business growth and the company now states that the migration to AVEVA Marine is playing a key role in its ongoing success.

Mr Heung-Won Suh, Director of DSME’s Information Technology Team identified the five main reasons driving its migration to AVEVA Marine.

Full support from AVEVAHe told us, ‘Adopting new tools is always risky. To minimise the risks, DSME was clear about the need for close and seamless cooperation with the software vendors. One of the advantages of AVEVA Marine for us is that it still incorporates Tribon’s 40 years of shipbuilding expertise. Over the last 25 years we’ve built very strong relationships and this means that we could be confident AVEVA will support us well after the implementation of the new tools.

‘After the first pilot test,’ Heung-Won Suh continued, ‘we carefully tested the AVEVA Marine version 12.0 environment and migration toolkits and, to improve the testing process, DSME worked closely with the development team at AVEVA. At DSME’s suggestion, functional testing in a single-user environment was executed before the application was tested in a multiple-user simulation. After that, we deployed the testing in a real production environment. Working in this way allowed us to save man-hours in both the testing and migration phases of the project.

‘One of the key factors in the success of our migration was the commitment of the local AVEVA engineers to solving the software problems, no matter what the issue. The AVEVA development team were keen to further improve the quality of AVEVA Marine and provided us with software updates and new releases.’

‘It was particularly helpful that local engineers were located close to us. We had regular meetings with AVEVA to review the status of the project and to exchange information. Migration was a complex process, but AVEVA’s support team worked hard to enable a smooth and effective implementation process,’ Mr Suh added.

‘In addition, the AVEVA Marine Technology Service Centre (MTSC) in Busan, Korea, completed a collaboration project with us at the end of February 2013. This long-term partnership will beneficially affect not only DSME, but also other AVEVA Marine users, since we have been continuously providing realistic feedback to assist with product development. AVEVA and DSME are both looking forward to further collaboration on future product development, which will provide considerable improvements for the shipbuilding and offshore industries.’

Heung-Won Suh, Director of the Information Technology Team, DSME. Photo courtesy of DSME.

Data consistency after migration‘When implementing AVEVA Marine,’ Mr Suh went on, ‘we had two concerns about consistency.

‘One concern was related to the consistency of legacy data moving from Tribon to AVEVA Marine. As a long-term user of Tribon, we had an enormous volume of design data. Moreover, ongoing projects needed to continue as normal. Since data was changing every day, it had to be kept consistent at all times. We are pleased that AVEVA Marine facilitates the collection and continuing management of a consistent set of whole data that can be used to support all aspects of ongoing projects.

‘The other concern was about how well in-house systems could be implemented in the AVEVA Marine environment. While we were using Tribon, we developed a number of in-house systems: a modelling program, a drawing program, a Bills of Material (BOM) system and a visualisation program. The migration of in-house systems began in 2011, and they are maintained in AVEVA Marine just as they were operating before.

‘AVEVA Marine is currently being used for ten offshore projects and we are also going to adopt it for commercial ships, special ships and other offshore projects beginning in 2014. To carry out these projects, we have already trained about 1,500 employees to be expert users of AVEVA Marine and we aim to train an addition 500 people in 2013. We propose to build approximately 70 ships and offshore units per year with AVEVA Marine.’

Better performance than Tribon ‘Certainly,’ Mr Suh continued, ‘we reported some errors and incidents with the earlier versions of AVEVA Marine. However, it has been improved thanks to user feedback, and we recognised that the overall performance is better than Tribon. In addition, AVEVA Marine is now more robust, flexible and scalable than Tribon.’

‘Tribon with its long development history was regarded as very stable, but AVEVA Marine contains many more useful, up-to-date functions and modules that are not included in Tribon. Users can feel uncomfortable when they start to use the new tools, but eventually they find that AVEVA Marine is faster and more versatile than Tribon.

‘Thanks to its strong core technology, AVEVA Marine is more suitable for meeting the technical requirements of our new, complex upcoming projects. For me, the most significant feature in AVEVA Marine is its parametric functionality, which provides intelligent graphical design and effective design quality assurance.

‘Among AVEVA Marine’s new features and functions, it allows users to build template-based libraries, so they don’t have to waste time redesigning every item each time saving time and effort. AVEVA Marine also includes a sophisticated 3D graphical user interface enabling quick and intuitive modelling. The ability of various data input/output functions provides further user-friendly customised features. Designers can take advantage of Design Review features to check, not only for clashes, but also for any model parts they may need.’

Collaboration benefits‘DSME now has a vision for the next 50 years as a global top player in the Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Installation and Commissioning (EPCIC) business. To make this a reality, DSME values the importance of collaboration with major EPCs, not only locally but globally. AVEVA PDMS™ is a leading solution of choice for the world’s power and plant industries supporting projects of all sizes, from the smallest upgrade to new-build installations of unlimited complexity, and it offers valuable collaboration opportunities and an extensive pool of skilled users. Demonstrated interoperability between AVEVA Marine and PDMS enables effective collaboration between DSME and other EPCs.’

An FPSO designed with AVEVA Marine is now in construction. Photo courtesy of DSME.

‘When our business area was focused only on shipbuilding, we could manage most projects solely in our shipyards. However, we now recognise the importance of cooperation and integration between EPCs for offshore projects. That’s why we chose AVEVA Marine as it enables precisely this sort of cooperation,’ said Mr Suh.

New business opportunities ‘DSME has enjoyed an outstanding reputation in commercial shipbuilding, but it has also moved into a succession of offshore projects, and is proud to have become the first company in the world’s shipbuilding industry to have achieved sales of USD 10 billion in the offshore arena. Indeed, DSME’s offshore contracts formed 82.5% of total new orders for 2012.DSME believes that AVEVA Marine will give it a competitive advantage for the offshore market as AVEVA Marine’s Outfitting module is derived from AVEVA PDMS, the leading 3D design software in use in the offshore industry.’

The company recently announced a new order from Statoil, a multinational energy company, to build a fixed platform, with the option for an additional platform in the future. It will be installed at the Mariner oilfield on the UK’s North Sea continental shelf.

‘This platform will have a 31,000 ton scaled topside for oil production and will yield 31,000 barrels of crude oil per day. It will be designed with AVEVA Marine and constructed in the Okpo shipyard. Delivery will be at the end of 2016’, said Mr. Suh.

About DSMESince 1973, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., Ltd. (DSME) has played a key contractor’s role in the shipbuilding and offshore industry. The company has approximately 30,000 employees including its subsidiaries. Its leading technology, competitive on-time delivery, and reliable production management systems bring DSME to the top position worldwide in building various vessels, offshore platforms, drilling rigs, FPSO/FPUs, submarines and destroyers.

The shipyard, at Okpo Bay, Geoje Island in South Korea, covers an area of 4.3 million square metres, encompassing the world’s largest dock, with a million-ton capacity. It is optimised for building high-tech motor vessels using cutting-edge equipment, including a 900-ton Goliath crane.

Please visit www.dsme.co.kr for further information.

First project with AVEVA MarineAt DSME, AVEVA Marine was initially used to design a fixed platform and FPSO for the P6046 Arkutin-Dagi project. For this project, named after the location of Arkutun-Dagi field, Sakhalin DSME and WorleyParsons set up a global work share which made possible parallel design and information sharing in real time between Okpo, Korea and Houston, USA. Thanks to AVEVA Marine’s integrated engineering and design approach, WorleyParsons and DSME were able to execute detailed design with AVEVA PDMS. The tighter links between AVEVA Marine and AVEVA PDMS gave them a wide choice of Engineering & Design tools for each stage of the complex project. Both companies were also using AVEVA Global™ for design sharing, as this product allowed them to work together simultaneously on detailed design projects from multiple sites. It controlled the release of data for production design on a weekly basis to each site. Data was copied from AVEVA Global and implemented in AVEVA Marine for block allocation and production data input. Production design was carried out with AVEVA Marine.

AVEVA Marine model of an FPSO. Image courtesy of DSME.

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