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A 1,250-Cabin Cruise Ship in France Uses
Fourteen Thousand Drawings from India
September 3, 2005
The Magnum Group makes further inroads into large international projects
and continues to be one of India’s leading CAD drafting service providers
Indian CAD drafting service provider The Magnum Group (http://themagnumgroup.net)
recently completed 14,000 technical drawings for a 1,250-Cabin cruise ship
under construction in France.
The large French air conditioning contractor outfitting the cruise ship with
its HVAC (heating, ventilation, air conditioning) system chartered TMG to
create the set of complex diagrams.
It took a drafting team of 12 people four months to produce the drawings.
Each drawing represented a 10-foot piece of metal ducting that carried cold
air, exhaust air or fresh air through the ship. The 10-foot pieces included
bends, T-joints, reducers, expanders, silencers and flexible couplings; they
collectively formed the approximately 60 kilometers of ducting required to
control the temperature of the ship.
The drawings were
isometric representations, which are three-dimensional schematic
diagrams. Each drawing included detailed dimensions of components, a bill of
materials for the duct piece as well as the piece’s coordinates in the maze
of ducting that pervades the ship. Most notably, all text notations
including the bill of materials were in French.
Executive Director of TMG Mr. Lucky Balaraman says, “We forced ourselves up
a rapid learning curve at the beginning of the project to master the
hundreds of French technical words the drawings contained. To our joy and
delight, these words quickly became second nature to us.”
TMG created the drawings using state-of-the-art software and computer
systems. It uploaded approximately 200 drawings to its FTP server every two
days using one of its broadband connections for the French customer to
access them.
Each company assigned primary responsibility for its participation in the
drawing project to a skilled technical manager. These managers spoke
frequently, often several times a day, on the telephone to maintain exactly
parallel thinking on all aspects of the project.
Mr. Balaraman adds, “Halfway through the project we received a panic call
from our French customers … one of their suppliers had made a mistake, all
the drawings we had sent them over the last two months had to be redone and
they were at their wits’ end. Our customers were certain their schedule was
going to disintegrate and that the ship’s owners would impose harsh
penalties.”
TMG put more people on job, worked overtime and redid the drawings with
hardly any impact on the schedule.
“Our customers were deeply appreciative of how we rallied to assist them in
their hour of need,” says Mr. Balaraman, “They have said they will be
sending us larger, more complex work in the near future.”
TMG also provides CAD drafting services to several prestigious architectural
firms worldwide.
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