CMPIC Shipbuilding

A major challenge in cabling design is how to manage the variations in cabling from one design to another within the same ‘class’ of vessels. The approach taken to handling this problem in CMPIC is through Configuration Management (CM).CM allows you to manage both the vast majority of cables which are common to all vessels within a class, as well as those which are vessel or vessels specific. These variations are all managed within the same CMPIC database - there is no duplication of data and therefore no need to maintain consistency between per-vessel databases.The software achieves this by enabling the user to ‘apply’ any cable or associated data to one or any number of vessels in the class. Using CM, the number of vessels in the class is defined up front (although this can be increased if further orders are placed) and from then on the applicability of all cables & associated data are managed by CMPIC.Using configuration rules CMPIC of course checks for consistency and logic ensuring that users cannot enter erroneous or inconsistent data. As an example you would not be able to create a cable for a vessel where some data on which the cable was dependent was not applicable to that vessel.Items which are configured in CMPIC include cables, nodes, nodal network segments, systems etc.