Compartments are basically areas of the ship that are defined for
particular functional purpose, such as an engine room or a pump room,
cargo compartment tanks, So on and so forth.
They are generally controlled by an arrangement drawing of the space to
say what actually has to reside in that area of the ship to make it function.
What you can do with compartments, you couldn't do with volumes is
that you can take multiple volumes and create a single compartment
from them in an organized fashion, to describe a section of the vessel
that is either a rectangular, square or that has some type of compound scripture
stakeholders that are interested in compartments such as an owner
because they can look at what equipment resides in the compartment.
it's supposed to be there if it was supposed to put somewhere else in
a vessel, for function.
But as the vessel life continues and they can look at it to leverage of the
digital twin before going into shipyards for repair or overhaul to cut down
on time that they spend in the shipyard and get repairs done cheaper and faster.
One of the challenges for building the vessel is trying to get the right
parts in the right place in the ship at the right time during various
different build stages.
So depending on how, how the project gets planned out, uh it should
be able to provide good traceability at each stage of the build for when
components that make up the functionality of the department went in
the ship and that they are there in the ship at these various different stages.
It's not exactly easy to trace all this back as the ship progresses in both
its design and it's build.
So it should be able to help them validate that the correct parts have
been placed in the right compartment um In the future will be expanding
these things and they will be able to also be able to show what shouldn't
be in the compartment as well.
The compartments will also have a benefit to managing the project
because you'll be able to see what parts have gone into a particular compartment.
During, for example, the block build stage versus when they would do
more general outfitting after blocks are built up in the ship.
So depending on how they plan, the project will be able to see it various
stages, whether they've gotten certain equipment in the ship or not and
or about to get it in there and if they haven't got the equipment available,
whether they can differ that equipment at a later stage, which may or
may not be possible, but it would at least allow them to understand
where they stand when these problems occur.
So at the end of the vessel's life, when the shit goes for recycling, there's
a lot of times where the vessels pulled into whatever yard to cut it apart
and they don't really know what's in the ship.
So they have to conduct some extensive surveys.
And so having a digital twin with the compartments defined would allow
a a breaking yard or a ship recycler to go through and pre plan their cuts
and pre plan their removal of equipment or things that potentially
hazardous so that it can be sequenced and done in a more efficient manner.
future use cases of compartments are kind of dependent.
And if you're looking at from the shipyard perspective or from a designer
perspective and owner's perspective, there's a lot of different ways to
use these predefined volumes.
You know, checking things such as it close up for painting.
You know, make sure that you're not going to be welding on one bulkhead
and painting on the other one and burning up paint, and being able to
use this to help schedule better.
But really the possibilities for checking what's in and around a
compartment and when things are complete our to a point there is no
limit to what you can do with it.
As far as using the data to drive your process.
There will certainly be I think areas to use compartments in the future in
ways that we haven't thought about yet.
We touched slightly on it before that we will be building some smart
capabilities compartments in the future.
So you can see if parts or systems that are inside of compartment
shouldn't be in that compartment.
For classification and list rules and things of that nature.
but I'm sure as as people start to use this feature we'll come up with
new new and greater ways to use it.