New Design Methodology for Concurrent Marine Engineering toward High Competency Engine Room

Abstract

Machines and equipments are arranged functionally in a ship's engine room; the generation of the ship's propulsion power, supplying electricity, refrigeration, air conditioning and so on. Such machines and equipments are usually manufactured in different companies. Meanwhile, the rapid development of the shipbuilding technologies in some Asian countries is starting to threaten the marine engineering industries in Japan. In this paper, a new design methodology - defined as Concurrent Marine Engineering (CME) -is proposed to cope with this situation. As an actual outcome, CME is aimed at manufacturing engine rooms with high competency through the cooperation among the different Japanese companies related to marine engineering. We wish to provide an environment of Sustainable Developing Marine Engineering.