FORAN Users Meeting (FORUM 2014) The Eighth FORAN Users Meeting ity for the early design stage from their (FORUM 2014) took place June 11-13, perspective as ship designers, and ? nally 2014 in the Parador de la Granja, Sego- Ricardo Rozados, from Abance (Spain), via, and when it was over the organizers demonstrated with precise ? gures the proclaimed it a great success, recording bene? ts of an out? tting module-oriented the highest number of participants ever. design and the way to achieve it with On Thursday June 12, Rafael de FORAN.Góngora, General Manager of SENER At Thursday’s formal dinner, Verónica Marine Business Unit, welcomed the Alonso on behalf of SENER gave the attendees and encouraged an open shar- FORAN Photography and Screen Cap-ing of experience in using the FORAN ture Awards to Babcock Marine (United System. Kingdom) and Asmar (Chile).Miguel Ángel Rojí, from Navantia On Friday, June 13, Juan Pablo Soto (Spain), presented about the optimiza- of Asmar (Chile) gave a presentation tion of the design and production in the on the use of FORAN in the calculation Spanish shipbuilding group of reference. of the electronic equipment precise po-Following was Kevin Duckworth, from sitioning to minimize interferences. He BAE Systems Maritime Submarines tion with a PLM tool already developed ? oating dock to put in the water a new was followed by Yiqi Song from CS-(UK), who discussed the optimization by the design of? ce. series of icebreakers. Jim McLauchlan, DDC (China Development and Design of FORAN in the Royal Navy´s Succes- The second session started with Alek- from BAE Systems Naval Ships (UK), Center). Fernando Alonso from SENER sor Program (nuclear submarine deter- sey Shadrov, from Vyborg Shipyard, continued with a presentation about the then spoke about the integration of FO-rence), particularly about the integration and Sergey Tolstoguzov, from Design challenges of the use of FORAN, espe- RAN with a PLM solution developed with the Product Lifeclycle Management Group Ricochet (Russia), with a shared cially the newly developed module for by SENER, and the ? nal session ended (PLM) tool. The ? rst conference session speech about the implementation in the the P&I diagrams in the Type 26 new de- with a presentation from Mon Seob Cho, ? nished with Igor Shaposhnikov, from shipyard of the consecutive FORAN stroyers program. Prabjot Singh Chopra, from SENER Korea, delivering a paper Severnoye Design Bureau (Russia) versions from 30 to 70, and about their from SeaTech Solutions (Singapore), on the options to customize FORAN to with a lecture about the FORAN integra- recent success in the development of a spoke about the required functional- the demands of the Eastern shipyards.www.marinelink.com 11MR #7 (10-17).indd 11 MR #7 (10-17).indd 11 7/2/2014 11:28:04 AM7/2/2014 11:28:04 AM