All aboard for enhanced cable management

A Cloudis product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Nov 19, 2004

BSOFTB Technologies has made significant enhancements to its cable management software which will be of particular interest to the shipbuilding industry.

BSOFTB Technologies (which has recently changed its name to Cloudis) has released significant enhancements to its cable management software which will be of particular interest to the shipbuilding industry.

The company has introduced several new areas of functionality to its industry leading Icepic product and renamed the product CMPIC (Configuration Managed Project Integrated Cabling).

CMPIC is already in use by customers.

The new functionality includes the following optional features.

Configuration management provides the ability to manage cabling and associated devices on a series of "sister" vessels in the same class without duplicating databases.

CMPIC allows users to nominate which vessels within a class the cables, cable routes, segments etc apply.

The user can also identify cables and other associated data as being "class" items and therefore applicable to all vessels.

This functionality enables constructors to use best practice learnt on the first of class on subsequent builds thereby reducing wastage and speeding up the process of designing and installing cabling.

CMPIC provides for the tasks associated with installing and testing cables to be grouped together in "work packages".

These work packages can be treated as project management activities which can form part of the overall project plan.

The work packages can be used to group cables on a given system, of a given segregation, which pass through a particular penetration etc Grouping cables in this way adds another level of planning to the ordering, cutting, installation and testing process.

CMPIC can be used to manage the cabling process over multiple sites.

This includes allowing full or limited access to a shared database, controlling cable drums and cable cutting on several sites, site specific reporting etc CMPIC can be used to manage the cabling process on projects where vessels are built in blocks and on more than one site.

Specific functionality within CMPIC allows cables to be identified as being contained within the block, entering the block from another block or passing through the block etc This functionality also caters for identifying the location of partially routed cables so that they can easily be located for completion of the work once blocks have been joined.

CMPIC also encompasses all the automatic routing, status monitoring, change control and other functions for which its forerunner Icepic has been used since 1996.

CMPIC can also be used for single projects or vessels without modification.

It simply involves de-activation of the configuration management functions.

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