CAD Sensitization, an Easy Way to Integrate Artificial Intelligence in Shipbuilding

Abstract

There are two main areas in which the Internet of Ships (IoS) can help: firstly, the production stage, in all its phases, from material bids to manufacture, and secondly, the operation of the ship. Intelligent ship management requires a lot of information, as does the shipbuilding process. In these two phases of the ship’s life cycle, IoS acts as a key to the keyhole. IoS tools include sensors, process information and real-time decision-making, fog computing, or delegated processes in the cloud. The key point to address this challenge is the design phase. Getting the design process right will help in both areas, reducing costs and making agile use of technology to achieve a highly efficient and optimal outcome. But this raises a lot of new questions that need to be addressed: At what stage should we start adding control sensors? Which sensors are best suited to our solution? Is there anything that offers more than simple identification? As we begin the process of answering all these questions, we realize that a Computer Aided Design (CAD) tool, as well as Artificial Intelligence (AI), mixed in a single tool, could significantly help in all these processes. AI combined with specialized CAD tools can enhance the sensitization phases in the shipbuilding process to improve results throughout the ship’s life cycle. This is the base of the framework developed in this paper.