Marine Design Software

Paramarine® is an integrated Naval Architecture design and analysis toolset. It enables seamless collaboration between global teams and maximises the efficiency of your designer's creativity.

Paramarine® is a modular software package with Siemens PLM Parasolid® modelling tool at its heart. This means you, the user, can tailor the toolset to suit your needs by selecting the required modules in addition to the core modeller. Modules are fully integrated such that all design and analysis work takes place within one common environment thereby eliminating the need for data exports to other packages.

Team Paramarine

Team Paramarine® enables collaboration functionality for users located in different places wishing to work on the same design simultaneously. Paramarine®, the Naval Architecture toolset, is used locally on an individual's computer and links to a Team Paramarine® database repository hosted on a central server via an intranet or vpn connection. Administration of model manipulation tasks, user control, accounts, and other tasks are all handled within Team Paramarine® to deliver. A new and even more advanced, feature rich, version of Team Paramarine® is in testing and will be launched in the very near future.

Support and Training

Our development strategy ensures Paramarine® is updated both generically, and on a customer focused basis. Many of our users require specific functionality to analyse their innovative work. Implementation of agreed upgrades are provided as standard on future software updates. Additionally we provide training courses tailored to the customer’s needs, delivered either in country, or at our offices in the UK. Where necessary QinetiQ can provide design support services to assist.

Features & Benefits

• Value for money naval architecture application for initial vessel design
• Expandable with modules to meet your needs
• 3D NURBS geometry - easily visualise design and compartment definition
• Reduced design time - rapidly generate complex hull forms/compartment subdivision
• Intuitive GUI is extremely flexible and powerful, facilitating training and integration into the design office
• Software is in continuous development
• Bespoke solutions can be developed to meet customer needs
• Supported by a range of training packages

Required computer specifications needed to operate Paramarine

SeaWeigh™ is Paramarine's intuitive on-board loading & stability module. Used for planning and enhanced vessel loading, it additionally provides assurance of safe operation in port and at sea, and enables ship to shore stability reporting for management operations.

Effective Solution

Having extensive user control, whilst being fast, and primarily developed to be user friendly, Paramarine's onboard solution enables the Deck Officers to generate vital loading calculations, strength assessments and compliance checks in an efficient yet cost effective manner.

Primarily developed for complex ships as part of the Paramarine® Naval Architecture toolset, SeaWeigh™ provides a stable, robust and user friendly on-board solution to perform loading, strength and a host of other compliance checks. SeaWeigh™ is suitable for a range of vessels including Tankers, Warships, Cargo Ships, Yachts and Passenger Ships.

Type Approved

Benefiting from Lloyds' Register approval and certification process, SeaWeigh™ is approved for Type 1 and Type 3 loading, the latter being capable of intact and damage stability assessment for predefined damage cases based on Conventions or Codes, and for each loading condition. Additionally, further benefits include its Type 4 capability due to its ability to easily perform calculations for real loading conditions and actual flooding cases.

Proven

The software's capability is well proven through its use on MoD Warships, and is in constant use for loading and damage analysis. Features include Bridge Visibility compliance, Emergency Response Service capability, I/O linking to tank sounding system and other IMS feeds, with many other features as expected from a tried and tested product. QinetiQ's team of highly experienced software engineers and naval architects import your Paramarine® model, or vessel data, into SeaWeigh™ for uploading to an onboard computer.

Features and Benefits

• Full 3D-model based calculations
• Dual mode – planning and live
• Class rule longitudinal strength
• Warns users of non-compliance
• User defined damages
• Docking planner

The global survivability assessment solution. Survive® is a comprehensive modelling and assessment toolset that helps Naval Architects ensure warships, commercial shipping and mega-yachts are designed to survive in an increasingly complex world.

Fine tune your survivability

Survive® offers the ability to rapidly simulate and quantify the likely effects of damage to a maritime vessel caused by a wide range of attacks. This allows designers to compare various damage mitigation methods cost effectively and identify the right survivability strategy. By comparing the vulnerability of a vessel against the lethality of a variety of threats, Survive® can support critical design decisions and in-service alterations to a vessel for the environment it is intended to operate in.

Versatility

Survive® offers several generic hull types and the support to import your own. Included hull forms include Frigate/Destroyer, Carrier, Auxiliary, Minesweeper and Trimaran. Survive® has an intuitive staged model building process, giving the user the ability to easily create concept designs by choosing and scaling a hull type, adding compartmentation, customising bulkhead attributes and defining top-level vessel capabilities using systems and equipment.

Functionality and development

Continuous improvement is made to Survive® as part of a regular release schedule - adding capability and improving the flexibility and usability of the tool. A week long training course is available for an introduction to survivability and to learn how Survive® can be employed to support more survivable ship designs. QinetiQ also provides a service to supply custom hull shapes for use with Survive® based on the user’s requirements.

Features and Benefits

• Ability to analyse missiles, bombs, mines, torpedoes and drone attack
• Damage modelled from blast, fragmentation, underwater shock, flooding and fire
• Extensively verified and validated damage assessment algorithms
• Weapon Editor add-on allows customisation of threat weapon characteristics
• Flexible, rapid analysis engine allowing efficient analysis of multiple scenarios

The team that develops Survive also offers survivability consultation. Further information on this can be found here: Marine Structures and Survivability.