AUTOMATED GENERATION AND LOW-EFFORT AUTHORING OF COMMISSIONING CONTENT IN THE MARITIME INDUSTRY

Abstract

Commissioning in the maritime industry is a long crucial phase in which all essential components in the ship are tested for faults and defects before a final acceptance form is signed by the client. Due to the variety of components in a ship and the complex hierarchical structure of such components, it is typical to have thousands of tests that should be performed throughout the commissioning phase. For every new ship, commissioning planners initially spend hours preparing the commissioning tests by reading technical documents, extracting relevant information, and applying the gathered knowledge to the unique equipment configuration in the ship. This leads to high preparation efforts and planning mistakes, e.g., unconsidered dependencies, and as a result, commissioning, and the shipbuilding process as a whole may be delayed. This paper lays the foundation for automating the process of authoring commissioning content for maritime productions. The paper presents a digital modeling approach for ship components, which facilitates the development of commissioning-specialized software. The model shown in this paper takes textual and geometrical information of ship components as input data and produces generalized commissioning templates that can be used to generate commissioning tests automatically.