Siemens will acquire FORAN entirely

Siemens will fully acquire POLLAN in October 2021 to enhance its marine planning and engineering capabilities. The FORAN business will then be integrated into the Xcelerator channel, which Siemens has been promoting in recent years. With the acquisition of FORAN, Siemens will offer the shipbuilding industry a comprehensive portfolio of software and services covering all aspects of the vessel lifecycle, including planning, production and operation, as well as optimized service lifecycle management. Siemens wants to support shipyards in their use of digital twins in the planning and fabrication of their vessels, as well as the gradual transition to Shipyard 4.0.

　　FORAN was born in Spain in 1965, 56 years ago. It is a CAD/CAE/CAM software developed by marine engineers for the planning, fabrication and engineering of ships and offshore products, whose marine expertise ensures the highest quality service for shipyards and planners, primarily for planning institutes, shipyards, classification societies, etc.

FORAN is currently the world's leading three-dimensional planning system for ships, with users in more than 40 countries and more than 150 shipyards and planning institutes around the world. Typical domestic and foreign customers include: BAE System Company of United Kingdom, NAVANTIA Group of Spain, Northern Shipyard of Russia, Baltic Shipyard of Russia, Sanoyas Shipyard of Japan, STX Shipbuilding Marine of Korea, Wuhan Ship Planning Institute of China, etc.

For more than 50 years, FORAN users have planned and produced various types of vessels such as offshore channels, FPSO, FSO, marine supply vessels, catamarans and multihulls, ro-ro ships, LNG, LPG, ore carriers, research vessels, large fishing vessels, icebreakers, luxury cruise ships, tugboats, container ships, chemical tankers, oil tankers and so on.

FORAN is the world's most extensive 3D planning system for marine shipyards, providing the best solutions for surface ships and submarines, such as advanced hull line planning, vessel configuration and sister ship handling, integration with PLM, special standards and extremely high precision management. The types of military ships that are planned and produced are: aircraft carriers, frigates, destroyers, cruisers, nuclear submarines, conventional submarines, military auxiliary ships, etc.

According to the division of specialties, FORAN includes profile planning, functional accounting, profile module accounting, total longitudinal strength accounting, hull structure planning, nesting and CNC post-processing instruction generation, marine equipment and pipeline planning, air conditioning and ventilation planning, iron outfitting planning, electrical planning, painting accounting, internal outfitting planning, welding standard definition, production process planning, active drawing of various specialties and other planning and production capacity of various specialties; According to the planning stage of the vessel, FORAN covers all planning stages such as scheme planning, preliminary planning, specific planning, and production planning.

Planning institutes and shipyards can complete the planning and production of a ship or offshore project in the FORAN environment, avoiding the possible data exchange when using different systems, and the resulting problems of information loss and duplicate modeling, which is also more conducive to the completion of paperless planning.

FORAN is a representative of a new generation of shipbuilding software system, through more than 50 years of experience in ship planning and production and the results of the perfect combination of the latest IT technology, its software system leads the advanced ship planning and production concept, its functions meet the actual needs of planning institutes and shipyards, the selection of the latest software development and advanced software engineering technology for development, with excellent data sharing ability and secondary development environment, can effectively improve the quality and power of planning, can serve the "integration of planning and production", "integration of shell and outfitting". and other advanced forms of shipbuilding, which have won obvious economic benefits for planning institutes and shipyards. The integrity, first-in-class, integration and openness of the FORAN system can fully meet these needs, and provide strong support and guarantee for domestic ship planning institutes and shipyards to improve their planning and production level and become a shipbuilding power.

Siemens will acquire FORAN entirely

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