- Flexible
FORAN offers maximum adaptability, providing shipyards of any size and organization with customized solutions to design and produce all kinds of ships. Its modular structure allows for a flexible and gradual implementation.
- Optimal for modelling, drawing and reporting
FORAN features full 2D drafting functionality and offers world-class 3D design capabilities, robust part modelling, 2D-3D transparency, large assembly management, simulation and product data management, all in a single full-ship product model database.
- Easy to use
An extremely friendly graphic user interface and a shipbuilding-specific approach make FORAN a System that ship designers can easily learn, implement and operate with minimal IT support.
- Reliable
Accurate shop-floor-ready information is generated for individual structures or outfitting parts manufacturing and also for assembling, which is the central activity in the shipyards.
- Efficient
Significant reduction in design man-hours and material costs can be obtained, while the production quality improves thanks to the integration of all design disciplines and phases and the automatic generation of customised workshop information.
- Collaborative
FORAN allows the carrying out of true collaborative engineering by shipyards, partners and subcontractors, using either a concurrent or a distributed environment. The risk of incompatibility is eliminated and the coordination among design teams is kept simple.
- Open
Exchange of data with technical and management information systems is easy thanks to the open database structure, system architecture and standard or ad hoc interfaces of FORAN.
- Innovative
FORAN offers quick response to new user requirements thanks to its solid and powerful development platform, within a context of permanent evaluation of technological innovations in shipbuilding, hardware and software.
The Chilean Shipyard ASMAR reactivates the FORAN licenses deactivated after the earthquake
The Chilean Shipyard Astilleros y Maestranzas de la Armada (ASMAR) and SENER have sign an agreement for the reactivation of the licenses of FORAN that were deactivated after the earthquake and tsunami of February 2010, with devastating consequences in the Shipyard in Talcahuano.
