We translate TWD’s engineering and design expertise into first-rate apps and automation solutions. The use of specialised, interactive apps is becoming an industry game changer. Our software engineers can uncover your project’s automation potential, from optimised designs, to increased vessel workability.
At the heart of all TWD projects lies creative design and ingenious engineering. Typically, the final deliverables of a project are reports and static drawings. However, we believe our clients can further benefit from our know-how through other means. Currently, TWD can provide apps as both the final product, or in conjunction with other solutions. Think of an engineering app for composing lifting arrangements, an operational app that generates a report for the warranty surveyor, or a dashboard to monitor the vessel’s accelerations during an in-field measurement campaign for workability optimisation. If you can dream it, we can develop it!
Engineering work at TWD is always done with a continuous regard for automation. Thanks to our in-house, Python-based engineering framework, we can set up our calculations to be fully equipped for automation and app development. Our unique engineering approach allows us to:
Built upon this engineering framework, we can easily build interactive apps with ingenious engineering at its core.
Engineering Automation
Our designers are masters in Autodesk Inventor. By streamlining the modelling process, they can concentrate on what really matters. That’s why our software engineers have and continuously develop TWD’s in-house Inventor add-ins and templates. Combining this suite with our Inventor proficiency we can:
Design Automation
We package our engineering and design ingenuity as interactive, online apps. Our apps enable you to design and engineer the product yourself, with the assurance of TWD’s high standards at its core. Current apps and prototypes include:
Web Apps
Our mission equipment plays a vital role in our client’s operations. This equipment represents our ingenuity and creativity. Wouldn’t it be great if you could further benefit from our know-how in your operational phase? That’s why we develop apps to assist you in planning and performing your operations. Our products include:
Operations
Data is knowledge and knowledge is power! A key input to our design and calculations are the actual vessel motions in-field. Our new, in-house developed motion sensors enable an economically attractive combination of hardware and software to validate our designs and perform workability studies. These can be performed for both floating and jack-up vessels. Possible applications including measuring:
In-field Measurement Campaigns
The monopile (MP) operations tool is an example of how TWD’s engineering and design know-how can be packaged into a tool that provides benefit for our client in the operational phase. From the app, the user can configure a trip by selecting and positioning MPs in the seafastening lanes. The app then fully automates:
An app like this enables contractors to optimise their installation sequence, stay flexible, and reduce mobilisation time with autogenerated mobilisation reports.
Internally, the software engineering group supports all TWD projects by automating repetitive tasks, reducing avenues for human-error, and giving space for our teams to concentrate on boosting creativity and ingenuity. Our continuous focus on automation is a two-way street that keeps us ahead of the curve and sustains our quality of work.
As our internal working methods are already automated, they form the ideal starting point for the creation of an interactive app.
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