Bulletin 1/2011 - Siempelkamp

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Mickey Mouse meets Siempelkamp: Special crane systems by Siempelkamp Krantechnik GmbH get cruise ships going Crane systems, LEGO blocks, and Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse – how are they associated? When one of the most up-to-date and most innovative shipyards in the world builds ships with the help of crane systems by Siempelkamp Krantechnik GmbH (SKT), then we can say: “Mickey Mouse meets Siempelkamp”! By Ute de Vries On november 12, 2010 the “Disney Dream” cruise ship departed MEyER WERFt shipyard on its conveyance down the River Ems, traveling from the ship’s inland birthplace in Papenburg, Germany to the north Sea at the port of Eemshaven in the netherlands – one of the ship’s first steps on its way to the future home port, Port Canaveral, Florida. Prior to the conveyance and test drives, complex production processes have to be completed in which Siempelkamp Krantechnik is involved: Since 1990 SKt has been supporting the production of MEyER WERFt with services, repairs and the supply of different crane systems in special designs which are tailored to the requirements of the ship yard. In order to compete with other shipyards on an international scale, the family- owned business from the Emsland region in Germany has permanently improved its production engineering. By 1987 one of the world’s largest covered building docks was built in Papenburg. this building was extended by 100 m in the early 1990s. Here, the shipyard builds sophisticated passenger and cruise ships. In 2001 a second covered building dock was added. It was followed by new pre-fabrication halls and a new state-of-the-art laser welding system for serial production. Meanwhile the second building dock was also extended. After adding another 120 m, the total length of the hall amounted to 504 m. the construction was completed in late 2008. nowadays, MEyER WERFt’s production premises count among the most modern ones in the shipbuilding industry. Shipbuilding according to the module principle Certainly many remember their childhood, when they built daring constructions with Lego blocks. What works in the hands of children is applied in shipbuilding by MEyER WERFt. Ships are built according SieMpelkaMp | nUCLEAR tECHnOLOGy to the “block building principle,” which means that smaller parts are pre-fabricated and then assembled to ever bigger units. In the first step steel plates are coated for corrosion protection, then they are cut to size in a plasma torch system and welded up to form panels. Panels are assembled to form sections, which are pre-outfitted with electric installations and pipes and conduits. Approx. seven sections become a block. Finally, the blocks are welded together and wired. Some 65 to 75 blocks, the heaviest of which may weigh 600 to 800 t, become a cruise ship.
SieMpelkaMp | nUCLEAR tECHnOLOGy Captain Mickey, together with Disney Cruise Line President Karl Holz (left) and MEYER WERFT CEO Bernard Meyer (right), pushes the start button to commence the construction of the Disney Dream (Photo: Disney Cruise Line) MEYER WERFT in Papenburg (Photo: MEYER WERFT) Assembly of the last ship segments for the Disney Dream (Photo: Disney Cruise Line) 42 43
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