Collaborative Engineering is a promising concept to increase the competitiveness of companies. Target of this paper is to describe the industrial application of this approach, considering shipbuilding as an example. Besides the engineering partners´needs to collaborate during the product development phase, there are many other stakeholders who are interested in the product ship along its whole ...

This study analyses the cost structure of the several processes associated with the shipbuilding industry. The analysed productive processes are: the cutting preparation procedures; the several steel plate cutting processes; the processes of hull plates and stiffeners forming; the associated transport and assembling of plates and profiles; and finally the welding processes. The paper includes 2...

With a decline in price gaps among countries, price correlations across markets should increase, and divergences in production should rise due to enhanced opportunities for specialization in each country. But different economies have continued to emulate one another rather than specialize, sometimes contributing to oversupply and gluts in particular markets. Computer chips, steel and shipbuildi...

Wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM) is an emerging and promising technology for producing medium-to-large-scale metallic components/structures different industries, i.e., aerospace, automotive, shipbuilding, etc. It now a feasible alternative to traditional processes due its shorter lead time, low material waste, cost-effectiveness. WAAM has been widely used produce components using material...

The capabilities of complex software products such as CAD/CAM systems are strongly supported by basic information technologies related with data management, visualization, communication, geometry modeling and others related with the development process. These basic information technologies are involved in a continuous evolution process, but over recent years this evolution has been dramatic. Th...