Conceptual Design Support Tool for Subsea Equipment

Conceptual design is the most critical phase of product design and development process. It is the stage where major decisions are made by which will have an impact on the latter stage of design and related manufacturing processes. A tool called Conceptual Design Support Tool (CDST) had been developed to assist designers during conceptual design process. The overall goal of this project is to enhance the current CDST knowledge base. The enhancement will focus on product design in oil and gas domain particularly subsea equipment. In order to achieve this goal, the project will involves familiarization of CDST, study on subsea equipment, expanding CDST knowledge base and demonstration of the enhanced CDST. The enhancements of the CDST are important because the conceptual design can be perform more efficiently as the knowledge base expanded. The knowledge base expansion can also preserve expert's knowledge and train novice designer with the available design concept inside the knowledge base. Towards this goal, design concept for subsea separation system have been collected and stored inside the CDST knowledge base. These design concepts are generated based on the functional decomposition of the subsea separation system.