Design and Development of the Intelligent Process System for Marine Shafting

Abstract

In order to realize the automation of shipbuilding industry and the integration of products, this paper develops an intelligent process system for the marine shafting based on modular design to obtain the automatic generation of process documents and the construction of enterprise’s database. The intelligent process system is established by VB programming language, which based on the object-oriented visual programming language. The structure of the intelligent process system is modeled by design philosophy, which is easy to combine object-oriented programming with modular design philosophy. The structure of the intelligent process system is divided into knowledge base/database module, automatic drawing module and process planning module. The marine shafting of a large container ship is adopted to verify the rationality of the intelligent process system. Design parameters is input in the user interface, then the technical files of the marine shafting are generated that can be used for guiding the process of manufacture. Technical files are unified and managed by database of the intelligent process system. The intelligent process system realizes the automatic management of product files. The example shows the system increases the enterprise’s degree of information and automation and also improve the competitiveness of enterprise in the market.