OSN and Italian Navy to Develop Innovative Framework for Early Stage Ship Design

Orizzonte Sistemi Navali, with the collaboration of Italian Navy, has created an industrial and scientific team to develop an innovative framework to be used to perform naval vessels design during the Early Stage Design, following the NATO-Total Ship System Engineering Process indication.

This framework is able to perform real time assessment of the impact of different project alternatives on ship costs and performances. Given the current economic climate, attention of both private citizens and industrial companies turns into the direction of cost reduction and waste minimization.

The shipbuilding industry can no longer afford to define, design and build new Combat Vessels by simply meeting customers’ requirements; instead, it will be more and more necessary to identify for the given requirements, the most efficient ship in terms of cost and performance. The proposed framework is an approach allowing the designer to understand the possible implications of technical parameter choices, i.e., the consequent ship performance, operating costs and flexibility of use either from operational and platform perspective.

The proposed framework represents a modern and integrated approach for naval ship design, linking Ship Design characteristics with Operational aspects. The aim is to support decision-makers and naval surface unit designers by providing them a tool to effectively and easily manage the details of design parameters associated with alternative design solutions.

The paper describes final users requirements as well as the systematic approach adopted throughout the mentioned platform development.

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Shipbuilding Tribune Staff, May 23, 2012;