Intelligentized work-preparation for ship hull construction with Optimized Assembly Planning System

Efficiency of work-preparation influences greatly to the delivery time of shipbuilding. Many current commercial softwares are able to generate 3D topological ship construction model. However, little study has been made on utilizing the added value of those models. This paper focuses on introducing Productivity Extension Module (PEM) as a secondary development of software based on AutoCAD platform. PEM is able to effectively generate 3D topological ship construction model with Optimized Assembly Planning System. Benchmark based on a real engineering project is provided by this paper in order to prove the efficiency of PEM. It is concluded that PEM is in high efficiency when dealing with construction modeling and making workshop assembly plan for shipbuilding.