KR102194212B1 - Information management system - Google Patents

Abstract

It relates to an information management system and management method between a computer aided design (CAD) system and a bill of material (BOM) system in the process of building a ship or offshore structure, and a CAD system that executes the design of a ship, and the construction of a ship or offshore structure. For the purpose, a configuration including a BOM system for managing materials, a common module for processing into material information of the BOM system according to design information in the CAD system, and a database for storing information on the common module is provided, and the CAD system It is easy to improve the system and the BOM system mutually, and it is possible to minimize the case of modifying the same matter in several parts.

Description

Information management system {Information management system}

The present invention relates to an information management system and a management method thereof, and in particular, a computer aided design (CAD) system and a bill of material (BOM) during the construction of a commercial ship, an offshore plant, or a drilling vessel (hereinafter, referred to as'ship or offshore structure'). ) It relates to an information management system between systems and a management method thereof.

Since the ship's structure is very large, it is divided into blocks, which are units that divide the ship structure into a certain size in consideration of cutting and processing processes, working conditions, and working period. These ship structures are largely divided into structural, piping, and electric instrumentation sectors.For example, looking at the process sequence of the piping sector, 3D modeling, production drawing creation, design work order (workorder) step, production work order step, and production It proceeds in the order of process and installation process. Here, the manufacturing process includes a bevel process, a fit up process, a welding process, a non-destructive inspection process, a post-welding treatment process, a painting process, etc., and the installation process is also a detailed unit process of several steps. Done.

This design work order step means handing over work information from the design department to the production department and the installation department, and handing over work information means handing over the production drawings (SPOOL) and installation drawings (ISO). The production drawing (SPOOL) refers to a drawing of a structure of a size that can be produced in a unit process (SHOP), and the installation drawing (ISO) is a continuous production drawing (SPOOL) within the range of unit installation work at the installation site. It refers to the sum of. Such production drawings (SPOOL) and installation drawings (ISO) form the basic units of the manufacturing process and installation process, respectively.

In the case of the shipbuilding industry, to maintain competitiveness, the bill of material (BOM) system and enterprise resource planning (ERP) system are operated to manage product design and accounting in one step. This BOM system operates structured information on which parts (Items) a ship (product) is composed of. Item is a concept that collectively refers to materials that go into shipbuilding, such as raw materials, semi-finished products, and finished products.

An example of such a technique is disclosed in Documents 1 and 2 below.

For example, the following Patent Document 1 includes a DB block 110, a visual piping process management module 102, a design work order delay analysis module 103, a production work order delay analysis module 104, and a production handover delay analysis module. (105), consisting of a combination of the installation welding delay analysis module 106 and the visual piping process management server 101, the DB block 110 is the BOM information DB 111 for each drawing, the work order information DB 112 , Process progress information for each drawing (113), 3D CAD model information DB (114), 3D item key mapping information DB (115), 3D CAD model information and operation information DB (116), the DB block (110) ) Is disclosed for a visual piping process management system that can be implemented with the offshore plant manufacturer's PDM (Product Data Management) system.

In addition, in Patent Document 2, an external application program that provides a method for controlling and communicating with a ship design-only system such as Aveva's'Aveva Marine' system, the CAD system and schedule management PLM (Product Lifecyle Management) system, etc. Disclosed is a method and system for embedding a CAD system dedicated to shipbuilding design in an external application program for shipbuilding that can provide a user environment in a way that is integrated into (Graphic User Interface).

Korean Patent Publication No. 10-1179800 (registered on August 29, 2012) Republic of Korea Patent Publication No. 2013-0039994 (published on April 23, 2013)

However, in the conventional technology as described above, since most of the production/installation information is generated from an independent system or CAD model in the CAD and BOM system, the data for production/installation within the CAD system is directly verified by the BOM system. And if you save it or create it as a file, it was uploaded in a batch from the BOM system. Therefore, when the production/installation information is directly verified and stored in CAD, there is a problem that it takes a long time to reflect the production/installation information in the system when the standards for verifying and storing the production/installation information are changed.

In addition, when the production/installation information is created in CAD as a file and uploaded in a batch from the BOM system, processes such as checking data errors and regenerating data after model correction are complicated, and data errors are not reflected by the model. There was also a problem that data integrity could not be guaranteed if only modified.

In other words, due to mutual dependency between the CAD system and the BOM system, the reflection of system improvement, etc., is slow, it takes a long time to verify data and reflects the corrections, and it is difficult to ensure the consistency of the model and data.

An object of the present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and in the CAD system, only the role of generating production/installation information from the model is performed, and the common information is transmitted and managed between the CAD system and the BOM system. A module is provided to provide an information management system and a management method for designers to solve problems.

Another object of the present invention is that, in a CAD system, when data is generated in a predefined form and transmitted to a common module, the common module verifies the data in accordance with the data management standards of the BOM system and reflects and stores information It is to provide a management system and a management method thereof.

Another object of the present invention is to provide an information management system and a management method thereof that do not need to reflect data verification standards in a CAD system or consider data management standards such as revision management, since the common module follows the data management standards of the BOM system. will be.

Another object of the present invention is to ensure mutually independent operation of the CAD system and the BOM system, and because the production/installation information generated in the CAD system returns errors in real time from the common module, check the error details and It is to provide an information management system and a management method that can be modified to ensure data consistency.

In order to achieve the above object, the information management system according to the present invention includes a computer aided design (CAD) system that executes the design of a ship, a bill of material (BOM) system that manages materials for the construction of a ship or offshore structure, and the CAD. It characterized in that it comprises a common module processing the material information of the BOM system according to the design information in the system, and a database for storing information on the common module.

In addition, in the information management system according to the present invention, the common module includes a collection unit for collecting information for production/installation transmitted from the CAD system, and information collected from the collection unit according to the management standard of the BOM system. And a verification unit for verifying, a notification unit for notifying error data verified by the verification unit, and a management unit for managing material information in the BOM system.

In the information management system according to the present invention, the database comprises a CAD database for storing information collected by the collection unit and a BOM database for storing material information of the BOM system managed by the management unit. do.

In addition, in the information management system according to the present invention, the collection unit is characterized in that it collects information on materials, painting, processing, installation location, and weight for production/installation after modeling in the CAD system.

In addition, in the information management system according to the present invention, the CAD system and the BOM system are operated independently.

In addition, in the information management system according to the present invention, the verification unit compares and verifies information of the CAD database and the BOM database.

In addition, in the information management system according to the present invention, the notification unit is characterized in that it returns an error item in real time.

In addition, in the information management system according to the present invention, the verification unit is characterized in that the verification unit separates and verifies the information for production/installation collected by the collection unit into ship products and marine products.

In addition, in order to achieve the above object, the information management method according to the present invention includes the steps of (a) transmitting information on material, painting, processing, installation location, and weight for production/installation after modeling in a CAD system, (b) the Comprising the step of collecting the information transmitted in step (a) and verifying the information according to the management standard of the BOM system, (c) notifying the verification result in step (b) in real time. .

In addition, in the information management method according to the present invention, the management standard of the BOM system in step (b) is updated and stored.

In addition, in the information management method according to the present invention, the CAD system and the BOM system are operated independently.

In addition, in the information management method according to the present invention, the step (b) is characterized in that the information for production/installation collected in the step (a) is separated into ship products and marine products and executed.

As described above, according to the information management system and its management method according to the present invention, it is easy to improve the CAD system and the BOM system mutual system, and it is possible to minimize the case of modifying the same matter over several parts. .

In addition, according to the information management system and the management method thereof according to the present invention, it is possible to secure design productivity by shortening the time to check BOM information errors and reflecting models.

Further, according to the information management system and the management method thereof according to the present invention, the effect of ensuring the consistency between the model and the BOM information is also obtained.

1 is a block diagram of a conventional visual piping process management system,
2 is a block diagram of an information management system for managing information between a CAD system and a BOM system according to the present invention;
3 is a detailed block diagram of the common module and the database shown in FIG. 2;
4 is a diagram showing an example of a ship designed by a CAD system;
5 is a flowchart illustrating a method of managing information between a CAD system and a BOM system according to the present invention.

The above and other objects and new features of the present invention will become more apparent from the description of the present specification and the accompanying drawings.

The information management system and its management method according to the present invention extract information such as material, painting, (special) processing, installation location, weight, etc. for production/installation after modeling in the CAD system in a predefined data transfer form. , If the extracted data is delivered to a common module for transmitting information between BOM systems, the module verifies and stores the data according to the management criteria of the BOM system, and the data with errors returns an error message, allowing the designer to Process in real time to solve.

As described above, by providing a common module for information transmission and management between the CAD system and the BOM system, the CAD system and the BO M system can operate independently and minimize interdependence.

In addition, it is possible to secure the flexibility of changing and improving the internal management standards of each system.

Hereinafter, the configuration of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

2 is a block diagram of an information management system for managing information between a CAD system and a BOM system according to the present invention, FIG. 3 is a detailed block diagram of the common module and database shown in FIG. 2, and FIG. 4 is It is a diagram showing an example of a designed ship.

As shown in Fig. 2, the information management system according to the present invention includes a computer aided design (CAD) system 10 that executes the design of a ship, and a bill of material (BOM) that manages materials for the construction of ships or offshore structures. ) System 20, a common module 30 that processes material information of the BOM system according to design information in the CAD system, and a database 40 that stores information about the common module.

The CAD system 10 may be, for example, a'AVEVA Marin 3D' or a'PDMS (Product Data Management System)', which is a product of AVEVA, for designing a shipbuilding marine design used by the present applicant. In addition, the CAD system 10 generates production/installation information from a model in the CAD system 10 using an API (Application Program Interface) for development. That is, the CAD system 10 generates data in a predefined format in the design drawing for ship construction as shown in FIG. 4 and transmits the data to the common module 30.

In the CAD system 10, for example, in the case of a ship, it is designed according to data on piping, iron equipment, electric equipment, and wooden equipment for the captain, captain, battlefield, and cabin, and in the case of offshore structures, air conditioning, cabin (residence Old), iron equipment, piping, machinery, electricity, instrumentation, and structure/method data.

With respect to the data transferred from the CAD system 10, the common module 30 separates ship products and marine products with a DLL (Dynamic Link Library) to verify and process data. Accordingly, the CAD system 10 can minimize double management of ship products and marine products.

The BOM system 20 is operated based on, for example, a RDBMS (Relational Data Base Management System) (Oracle, MS-SQL).

The common module 30 is shown as having a server function as a separate structure from the structure of FIG. 2, but is not limited thereto and may be provided in the BOM system 20.

In the present invention, as described above, by providing the common module 30, the CAD system 10 and the BOM system 20 can be independently operated.

As shown in FIG. 3, the common module 30 includes a collection unit 31 for collecting information for manufacturing/installation transmitted from the CAD system 10, and the information collected by the collection unit 31. A verification unit 32 that verifies according to the management standard of the BOM system 20, a notification unit 33 that notifies the error data verified by the verification unit 32, and material information in the BOM system 20 It includes a management unit 34 to manage.

The collection unit 31, the verification unit 32, the notification unit 33, and the management unit 34 can be realized by a program provided in the common module 30.

The database 40 includes a CAD database 41 that stores information collected by the collection unit 31 and a BOM database 41 that stores material information of the BOM system 20 managed by the management unit 34. ). The CAD database 41 and the BOM database 41 each represent separate databases, but are not limited thereto, and it is sufficient to separate and manage them in one storage area.

The collection unit 31 collects information on material, painting, processing, installation location, and weight for production/installation after modeling in the CAD system 20.

The verification unit 32 compares the information collected by the collection unit 31 and stored in the CAD database 41 with the material information transmitted from the BOM system 20 and stored in the BOM database 42 for verification. do. At this time, the verification unit 32 separates and verifies the production/installation information collected by the collection unit 32 into ship products and marine products.

The information on the material verified by the verification unit 32 returns an error matter to the manager of the CAD system 10 in real time through the notification unit 33. Accordingly, the management person in charge of the CAD system 10 can check the error matter and correct it directly in the model, thereby ensuring data consistency.

When the management standard in the BOM system 20 is changed, the management unit 34 updates the management standard accordingly and stores it in the BOM database 41. Therefore, in the present invention, it is possible to design by reflecting on the CAD system 10 in real time the change of materials for the construction of a ship or an offshore structure.

Next, a method of managing information for building a ship or offshore structure according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 5.

5 is a flowchart illustrating a method of managing information between a CAD system and a BOM system according to the present invention.

First, in the CAD system 10, information on the material, painting, processing, installation location, and weight for manufacturing/installation after modeling the ship as shown in FIG. 4 are collected by the collection unit 31 of the common module 30. It is transmitted to (S10).

In addition, in the present invention, when the management standard in the BOM system 20 is changed, the management standard is updated accordingly and stored in the BOM database 41 (S20).

The verification unit 32 performs verification on the information transmitted in step S10 according to the management standard of the BOM system 20 (S30). Such verification is the information of the CAD database 41 that stores the information collected by the collection unit 31 and the information of the BOM database 41 that stores the material information of the BOM system 20 managed by the management unit 34. This is done by comparing. Therefore, the verification in step S30 is performed on the most recent material information.

The verification result in step S30 is notified to the terminal in charge of management of the CAD system 10 in real time (S40). Accordingly, the management person in charge of the CAD system 10 can check the error and correct it directly in the design model of the ship or offshore structure.

In step S30, the information for production/installation collected in step S10 is separated into ship products and marine products and executed.

Although the invention made by the present inventor has been described in detail according to the above embodiment, the invention is not limited to the above embodiment, and can be changed in various ways without departing from the gist of the invention.

By using the information management system and its management method according to the present invention, it is possible to secure design productivity by shortening the time for checking errors in BOM information and reflecting models.

10: CAD system
20: BOM system
30: common module
40: database

Claims (12)

A computer aided design (CAD) system that executes the design of the ship,
Bill Of Material (BOM) system that manages materials for the construction of ships or offshore structures,
A common module that processes material information of the BOM system according to design information in the CAD system,
Including a database for storing information on the common module,
The common module is
A collection unit that collects information for production/installation delivered from the CAD system, a verification unit that verifies the information collected by the collection unit according to the management standards of the BOM system, and notifies of error data verified by the verification unit A notification unit to perform, and a management unit for managing material information in the BOM system,
The database includes a CAD database that stores information collected by the collection unit and a BOM database that stores material information of the BOM system managed by the management unit,
The collection unit collects information on material, painting, processing, installation location, and weight for production/installation after modeling in the CAD system,
The notification unit returns errors in real time,
The verification unit information management system, characterized in that the verification by separating the information for production / installation collected by the collection unit into ship products and marine products. delete delete delete The method of claim 1,
Information management system, characterized in that the CAD system and the BOM system operate independently. The method of claim 1,
And the verification unit compares and verifies information of the CAD database and the BOM database. delete delete delete delete delete delete

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