In October last year, DNV Software hosted top managers from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) and Daewoo Shipbuilding Engineering Company (DSEC), where they were furtern introduced to our yard strategy.

Signing Ceremony. From left: O.C. Astrup, Project Director DNV Softare Korea, E. Rishoff, Managing Director DNV Software, G.S. Lee, Vice President Ship & Ocean R&D Institue DSME, T.I. Cho, Vice President Basic Design Division DSME, H.W. Suh, Team Leader IT R&D Team DSME and C.S. Lee, Regional Manager DNV Software Korea&Japan.

The visit was the result of business with DSME and DSEC over the past two years. During this period, DNV Software has provided solutions supporting the yard engineering work processes aiming at helping Korean ship designers work better and more effectively.

Duing the three day meeting, the latest innovations and technologies supporting the yard’s work processes were presented in the form of the DNV Software Yard Strategy.

“We believe that next-generation shipyard enterprise architecture will be loosely coupled. We are very priviliged to be able to work out the next-generation solutions together with world class shipbuilders” says Elling Rishoff, Managing Director DNV Software.

The parties exchanged their experiences in implementing best engineering practices for the shipbuilding industry. Despite cultural differences and the distance between Oslo and Korea, the cooperation has worked out very well. DNV Software will soon complete the final project deliverables at both DSME and DSEC. At DSME, Brix Workflow will support the daily engineering production in three departments involving more than 200 users.

DSME will enter a six-month consolidation period. The objective is to fully exploit the potential for improved organisational learning, efficiency and quality offered by solution. This involves training of end users, development of new procedures and making “dead” knowledge readily available as part of the new system in the form of guidelines, calculation templates, template documents etc. After the consolidation period, DSME will summarise their experience. Based on this, DSME will decide on how to expand the Brix Foundation further.

Says Vice President G.S. Lee: “The presentations by DNV Software have shown to DSME that DNV possesses both the technology and the knowledge which will be of value to Korean Shipyards. DSME needs to thoroughly consider how the shipyard can utilise some of this technology and knowledge to be best prepared for the future.

DSEC plans to expand the current development into a second phase, were the objective is to fully integrate the engineering management system into their current production environment: “Brix offers a way for DSEC to standardise our engineering work and design projects throughout our organisation,” says Mr J.S. Shin, Vice President, DSEC.

During the visit, DNV Software further strengthened the bonds with DSME and DSEC by signing agreements and a letter of intent for product purchase and software solution development. Henrik Madsen, CEO of DNV, visited on the second day, underlining the good co-operation between DSME and DNV going back more than 30 years.