NTS introduce Friendship-Framework
Chinese shipbuilder New Times Shipbuilding (NTS) introduces simulation-driven design to its product development. NTS has signed a contractual agreement with GL’s maritime software developer Friendship systems. The contract includes the licensing of engineering software and design support for the development of a large crude oil tanker. By introducing the simulation-driven design software the shipyard aims to improve the efficiency of its products, streamlining its design work and increasing its competitiveness.
Friendship-Framework is a CAE software system for the simulation-driven design of optimal functional surfaces like ship hulls, rudders,
propellers and other maritime systems exposed to a flow regime. The
development of optimally task-suitable, energy efficient, high
performing designs is achieved in a streamlined design process which is built around integrated simulation. Parametric modelling, variant
generation and assessment, as well as hydrodynamic optimization are key design steps which are fed by the simulation results and lead to an optimal design. Friendship systems has released the latest upgrade of the simulation-driven design software Friendship-Framework, version 2.1, in late 2009. A new release with further enhanced functionality and user-friendliness is planned for autumn 2010.
New Times Shipbuilding (NTS) is part of New Century Shipbuilding
Corporation (NCSC) and based at DanHua Port in Jingjiang City, Jiangsu
Province. Next to extensive shipbuilding facilities, which include dry
docks for 150,000 dwt and 300,000 dwt vessels, the company operates a
marine design and research institute and a technology center. Since
1996, the shipyard has delivered about 100 vessels of all types, mainly
bulk carriers, oil tankers and container ships. According to the
company, a present 114 vessels are in the order book amounting to a
total of 13,800,000 dwts. The shipyard designs and delivers vessels,
which are classified also by GL, for an international clientele.