Process Planning System for CIM in Shipbuilding

Abstract

Recently, the necessity of CIM in shipbuilding has been recognized in our shipyards. And also SHIP & OCEAN FOUNDATION studies it on pilot model. In this project, process planning system is one of the important application system.
The aim of this paper is to propose one example of process planning expert system.
The proposed system is applied to the typical block of oil tanker and the efficiency of proposed system could be obtained.