Designing a Fresh Water Generator Application using Adobe Animate

Abstract

Fresh water is highly essential on a ship, not only to meet the crew's needs but also for supporting the ship's operations, such as cooling the main engine, and auxiliary machinery, and for cleaning other cargo loads (tank cleaning). Therefore, there is a need for auxiliary machinery capable of converting seawater into fresh water, which is known as a fresh water generator. The researchers chose this research topic due to the lack of understanding about the working system of a fresh water generator, and in the era of society 5.0, people are accustomed to coexisting with technology, as it facilitates various human affairs. Numerous simulation applications have emerged, such as Adobe Animate, which researchers currently use to design and develop a simulation application for the fresh water generator on computer hardware. The aim of this research is twofold: first, to explore how to create a simulation application for the fresh water generator based on Adobe Animate, and second, to understand the operational aspects of the simulation application. The researchers employed the Research and Development method, utilizing the Borg and Gall model, which comprises 10 research steps: preliminary research, information gathering, product design, design validation, product revision, product testing, product revision, product testing, product revision, and mass production. The outcome of this research, the Design, and Development of an Adobe Animate-based fresh water generator application, indicates that the process of creating a simulation application for the fresh water generator using Adobe Animate can be accomplished on all types of computers with the Microsoft Windows operating system. Furthermore, the operational aspects of this simulation application can be executed on computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system without the need for an internet connection.