CUBEDIN allows interchangeability
between ship platforms
Set course for a smarter method of shipbuilding
In a rapidly changing world keeping a fleet at the competitive edge with the ability to accommodate new and emerging requirements is more important than ever.
CUBEDIN provides that flexibility with a smart, cost-effective solution to support modern modular ship design.
True interchangeability – from bow to rudder
Everchanging demands across the maritime domain means that ships must become more flexible if they are to keep pace with evolving requirements. Ships that take decades to design and build quickly become obsolete within the modern operating environment.
As a result, modularity must become a central concept in future ship design. And to support this, standardised systems have been created. The modules are typically built using The Cube concept from our partner SH- Defence while the software interface – or the gateway – is created within the CUBEDIN specification.
Our software allows Cubes to be selected and inserted onto ships, and exchanged, if there is a need to be reconfigured to meet a new mission.
Not only does this swift recalibration increase efficiency within national navies but a standardised, shared system allows naval powers within military alliances greater availability of warships to meet a range of global operations.
3 main components form the solution
The CUBEDIN configurator, where upon selecting a ship and one or more missions, the user can configure the ship with available Cubess suitable for the selected mission(s). The configurator can be used as part of an Alliance (e.g NATO) or national tasking with different levels of functionality configured for each level.
The CUBEDIN gateway enables both interoperability and adaptability by acting as a interface between Cubess and the ship systems CMS, IPMS. This is in contrast to the traditional point-to-point integration, which doesn’t deliver on interoperability and adaptability. This gateway is not part of the kill chain, and so the interface between guns, radars and CMS is handled directly.
The CUBEDIN Unified Frontend enables all Cubess that have been loaded onto the ship to display their own (micro)frontend on a shared frontend. Here the user can then enable any of the potential operations for each of the Cubess.
True value all around
All parties involved in the production of ships are unified by one goal – delivering value to the end user. The flexibility of the CUBEDIN concept offers exactly that by taking a modern, adaptive approach that gives the end user choice and value in the configuration of their vessels.
The standardised software and physical interfaces ensure the global utility of both the design and the resultant product, with a time-efficient and cost-effective approach to the build, all of which is attractive to the end user.
For navies, the CUBEDIN concept allows greater availability of ships both through the ability to work within alliances that also use the concept, and in having more efficient maintenance periods and reconfiguration processes.
