Case Study: Germanischer Lloyd achieves faster, higher-quality ship modeling with MSC Software's MSC.Patran

Germanischer Lloyd - Customer Case Study

Germanischer Lloyd, the German ship classification society, needed a faster and more reliable way to perform finite element modeling and stability analyses for increasingly complex ship designs. Tight design schedules, high safety requirements, and the heavy manual effort involved in preparing geometry and meshes made conventional engineering methods too slow. Germanischer Lloyd turned to MSC Software and its MSC.Patran pre-processor to support shipbuilding-specific modeling needs.

MSC Software helped develop GL/ShipModel, a customized solution built on MSC.Patran that enables pattern-based, semi-automatic modeling of ship structures and streamlined data input. By tailoring the tool to Germanischer Lloyd’s engineering workflow, MSC Software enabled faster FEM preparation, better traceability, and improved quality, saving up to 30% of modeling time and reducing cost while helping meet safety requirements and tight project schedules.

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