NAVAIS – New, Advanced and Value-added Innovative Ships
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Worldwide competition is fierce, and in order to maintain world-leadership in complex, value-added and highly specialised vessels European shipbuilders must develop tailor-made innovative concepts that are efficient to design and build.
NAVAIS will develop a platform-based modular product family approach supported by the 3DEXPERIENCE® integrated business platform. This concept will increase efficiency in vessel design and flexibility in production networks. NAVAIS will specifically focus on passenger/road ferries and multi-use workboats integrating sustainability in the design of the ships. NAVAIS will support the transfer from an engineered-to-order business model to an assemble-to-order business model, which will allow shorter process lead-times, constant quality, reduced design and production costs and better integration of the SME supply chain, thereby increasing competitiveness of the European shipbuilding industry.
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Concepts and results
The NAVAIS innovative solution is the adoption of platform-based product family and modular product architecture principles for passenger/road ferries and for workboats. Key results of the NAVAIS concept are expected to include:
“30 % higher efficiency in ship design development, production lead-times and cost, testing and approval times for customised vessels and in reduction of rework during the warranty period”.
NAVAIS introduces two innovative platform-based product families that use modularity in design and production. The core element of this approach is the re-usable library of modules that are:
- Of stable quality due to the re-usable character of the modules;
- Faster to produce due to the already proven and approved (class) module characteristics and;
- Cheaper to produce due to economies of scale and the repetitive element.
EnergyVille/VITO hosts the team working on electrical storage involved in the NAVAIS project and which will be working on the electrification of vessels with a focus on enabling faster charging processes and thermal management.Next to the technology solutions and services such as battery and ultra-capacitor testing and evaluation, modelling, development of battery management systems and integration solutions including dealing with thermal aspects, EnergyVille/VITO also provides economical and life cycle assessment of electrical systems, including storage.