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Shipbuilding
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Solutions for Marine Navigation |
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Projects involving marine navigation includes commercial and recreational boats and yachts.
This inlcudes navigation, charing, tide determination, vessel tracking, and monitoring buoys.
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MEYER WERFT GmbH from Papenburg in Northern Germany is more than just a shipbuilder – 2600 employees create floating masterpieces beyond your wildest dreams in the shipyard‘s fabrication halls. Modern cruise liners demand the highest commitment to quality. For this reason the surveying team at Meyer Werft use instruments only from Leica Geosystems. more
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With a wealth of experience acquired through the construction of a long line of racing boats, the Banque Populaire has gained considerable notoriety in the field of sailing. The “Sailing Bank” is staying its course with a new challenge: the construction of the world’s largest trimaran – the Banque Populaire V. Designed with the aim of beating the major sailing records, it consists of a forty-meter-long central hull, floats measuring thirty-seven meters in length and a forty-five-meter mast. The “Sailing Bank” has chosen the French company Ecartip to measure and test the manufactured parts using a Leica Geosystems 3D laser scanner. more
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This application report describes how the DAC-TC system is used to establish a 3D Building Frame System at the site and how this frame system is used when assembling the block structure. An example of such a structure is the double bottom of an “ecobox” type of carrier. more
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Modern shipbuilders have widely adopted the concept of modular construction and are realising the benefits associated with these methods. Further improvements in productivity can be achieved if these modules are accurately built, avoiding the traditional excess material normally trimmed during the erection process. more
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Thyssen Nordseewerke GmbH, located in Emden on the North Sea coast, has a
long tradition dating back to 1903, when the shipyard was founded as the “Nordseewerke Emder Werft und Dock Aktiengesellschaft”... more
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“Chantiers de l'Atlantique” has started to use Leica 3D measuring systems in 1995. Due to the good performance of the Leica products they have increased the number of measuring systems considerably.
All the users at the “Chantiers de l'Atlantique” highlight the savings the Leica systems have allowed them to make in terms of time and money. With the purchase of twoTDA 5000 systems (chosen because of the ATR) and associated software, they expect further productivity improvements in overlength management, which is a crucial problem for all shipyards and the main key to cut production costs. They are convinced that this tool fully meets their requirements. more
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Surveying on the world’s fastest construction site more
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Bird Johnson is one of the United States’ premier manufacturers of large surface ship propellers, primarily for the United States Navy and Marine Corps... more
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