DNV Software is an independent business unit developing innovative software solutions for the maritime, offshore and process industries. From stand-alone applications, the software has now become an alternative way for DNV to share best-engineering practice, experience and knowledge with customers.
Today’s hyper-competitive business environment requires companies to become more and more agile. The ability to act and change rapidly constitutes a huge business advantage. At the same time, tomorrow’s business opportunities will be based on what we have learnt in the past.
Capturing and spreading knowledge requires a process-centric approach that includes both the process itself and the information and data related to it. Equally important are the engineering processes viewed in a life cycle context – a holistic view that includes the complete value chain. Engineering processes in a life cycle context mean the ability to design for operation. That is, to bring operational experience and knowledge back into the design phase. Newly emerged technologies are increasingly used by design teams and include:
Brix
Brix Foundation allows distributed teams to work on the same design model from different locations. DNV Software’s engineers have, together with key clients, responded to the need for more transparency and agility in the overall design process. Using business process templates to describe engineering work is how DNV Software offers a way to capture, preserve and spread knowledge, facilitating a learning and acting global organisation.
Nauticus
The new Common Structural Rules for tankers and bulk carriers came into force on 1 April 2006. The new rule requirements confirm the move towards more computerisation of the rule formulations and structural assessments. Hence, good software support has become even more essential for ship designers to be industry-compliant and for DNV to provide timely and effective support to its customers. In response to this, Nauticus Hull has undergone a major upgrade and now includes the next-generation engineering modeller, GeniE.
Safeti
The Dutch government has awarded DNV Software a contract to supply software for Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA) calculations in The Netherlands. The five-year contract ends in 2011 and involves licensing SafetiNL to the Dutch users, including associated training and program maintenance.
The Field Life Cycle Manager portal allows management to have improved decision support through online access to the pipeline integrity status, history, inspection plans, activities and documents. The web portal provides an up-to-date overview of the pipeline condition based on aggregated views of the inspection findings. This provides management with decision support to ensure the safe and cost-efficient operation and maintenance of the pipelines.
Sesam
Brix Explorer for Sesam replaces the well-known Sesam Manager for all maintained Sesam users. It contains many improvements compared to Sesam Manager, including a graphical user interface that improves usability and efficiency and documents quality. It is now very easy to illustrate the work processes and information flow graphically, which will increase productivity significantly. Keppel Offshore & Marine, one of the world’s largest offshore and marine groups, has chosen GeniE, DNV Software’s next-generation engineering modeller to aid its offshore-related projects calculations.
This product will be implemented by its yards, as well as the engineering offices located in Bulgaria, China and India.
