Publication: Design and modelling of modular fishing boat
Date
2002-03-01
Authors
Abdul Rahim, Zulhasni
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Abstract
Modularity in product design give an impact on every stage of the product cycle and
its importance has been increasingly recognized. It was found that modularity can reduce
amount of waste and consumption of energy and natural resource, however, few precise
methodologies of modular design, for example both considering structures and functions of
modules, are found in the literature. This powerful concepts are not been exploited deeply by
the boats and ships manufacturing, technology and development. A boat can be modularized
in different forms. Different modularization scenarios can have different impacts on the life
cycle characteristics of the craft (including variety for upgrade of the marine transportation
characteristics) to be constructed from a smaller set of different components of a fishing boat.
So, our research aims at proposing the modular design methodology for variety considering
product structure