A Developed CACD System for Ship Engine Room

Conceptual design (CD) for ship engine room (SER) design is the most important task of the ship design?The CD is the first step of the product development and it is also the most innovative (or creative ) step?The computer aided conceptual design (CACD) system for SER can standardize the process of SERCD and it can also guarantee to find the optimum design satisfying many technical and economical constraints?This paper presents the functions of CACD system for SER,the developing methods and procedures of the main function modules,and some examples in details