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Company:
Fugro Seacore are a specialist marine drilling contractor, who has built its reputation on providing innovative solutions to the many engineering and environmental challenges that characterise marine projects. The company design & manufacture its own equipment including coastal jackup barges, large diameter drills, offshore heave compensated drills as well as supporting plant & machinery. Its drilling expertise is highly regarded amongst their global clients, who include Shell & BP.
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Challenge:
Previously using Inventor, Seacore embarked on rigorous testing to find a system that would both reduce cost as well as streamline and speed up their design process. Their existing process, which relies heavily on analysis to ensure equipment is fail-safe, involved 6 different types of software. Their main design challenges include building complex equipment that is ‘right first time,’ under tight deadlines, without prototypes. They also strive to design drills that can be modified for re-use to minimise wastage.
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“Integration was vitally important to our decision. We previously had to put our designs through 6 different types of software…if one element changed in the design we had to go back and make changes in each. For the first time we will have everything in one package and can see huge benefits including significant cost and time savings.”
Tristan Hosen, Design Engineer & CAD Manager
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Benefits:
SolidWorks has provided Seacore with a one-stop solution including SolidWorks, SolidWorks Simulation and Enterprise PDM. Weldment design and multibody features in particular were critical to cut design time by 25%.
By using SolidWorks Simulation, the integrated analysis tool within SolidWorks, Seacore can validate their designs instantly without the need to modify and convert the original model.
SolidWorks Enterprise PDM allowed Seacore’s design team to better manage product data, share design information and automate workflow, all within one integrated system.
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