Increase Steelwork Throughput and Reduce TOC by Leveraging Structural Design Optimization Tools Integrated with Process-Oriented Work-Content Tools in Preliminary Design

Team: MAESTRO Marine LLC Prime; Team Members: Fincantieri Marinette Marine, Altair Engineering Inc., American Bureau of Shipping, U.S. Coast Guard, Surface Forces Logistics Center, Robert Keane – Ship Design USA, Inc., P. Jaquith & Associates, SPAR Associates, Inc.

The project team represents the U.S. shipbuilding enterprise including a key shipbuilder, a global leader in engineering simulation software tools, a major Government ship engineers, owners and operators, the major U.S. Ship Classification Society, ship design, lean design, production planning and cost estimating specialists — and is primed by the developers of the software being leveraged for the project.

The project aims to enhance ship structural design for increased steelwork throughput, automate U.S. Navy structural design criteria evaluations, develop advanced structural modeling and rigorous structural design space exploration to ensure structural integrity performance and reduce excessive and leverage these capabilities through an integrated structural optimization software toolset.