Download or read book Commercial Shipyards and the Navy written by Shipbuilders Council of America and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Commercial Shipyards and the Navy Disputing the Recommendations of the Special Committee of the U S Senate on Investigation of the Munitions Industry 1936 with Regard to a Government Monopoly of Naval Shipbuilding written by National Council of American Shipbuilders (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA) and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Differences Between Military and Commercial Shipbuilding written by and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2005 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph is one of a set of three addressing related issues in UK shipbuilding. Funded by the Defence Procurement Agency (DPA), the three studies have the common goal of contributing to better understanding the warship-building industry within the United Kingdom and to improving management processes therein.
Download or read book Best Practices written by Paul L. Francis and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cost growth is a prevalent problem in Navy shipbuilding programs, particularly for the first ships in new classes. In response to a mandate in the conference report accompanying the Defense Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2008, this review was undertaken to: (1) identify key practices employed by leading commercial ship buyers and shipbuilders that ensure satisfactory cost, schedule, and ship performance; (2) determine the extent to which Navy shipbuilding programs employ these practices; and (3) evaluate how commercial and Navy business environments incentivize the use of best practices. Includes recommendations. Illustrations, and charts and tables.
Download or read book Commercial Shipyards and the Navy written by and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Navy Contracting written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Navy shipbuilding written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Navy has experienced significant quality problems with several ship classes over the past several years. It has focused on reducing the number of serious deficiencies at the time of delivery, and GAO's analysis shows that the number of deficiencies--particularly "starred" deficiencies designated as the most serious for operational or safety reasons--has generally dropped. Nonetheless, the Navy continues to accept ships with large numbers of open deficiencies. Accepting ships with large numbers of uncorrected deficiencies is a standard practice and GAO found that there are varying interpretations of Navy policy with regard to when the defects should be resolved. In 2009, the Navy organization that oversees ship construction launched the Back to Basics initiative to improve Navy oversight of ship construction. However, a key output of the initiative promoting consistent and adequate quality requirements in Navy contracts has yet to be implemented. Although the environment in which leading commercial ship buyers and builders operate differs in many ways from the Navy's, some commercial practices aimed at helping to ensure that ships are delivered with a minimum number of deficiencies may be informative for the Navy. Throughout the course of commercial shipbuilding projects, significant numbers of quality defects and instances of non-conforming work are identified. However, leading commercial ship buyers and shipbuilders make great efforts to ensure that these issues are resolved prior to delivery. Further, commercial ship buyers establish clear lines of accountability and hold their personnel responsible for ensuring the shipbuilder delivers a quality vessel. While commercial ship buyers focus on regularly witnessing in-process work through roaming patrols and impromptu inspections, Navy processes at the shipyards place less emphasis on in-process work. Moreover, leading commercial shipbuilders have strong quality management processes that track quality problems to the worker or supervisor level. Navy shipbuilding contractors have historically experienced difficulties in holding production workers and supervisors accountable for their work, but some of the shipyards reported they are making progress on increasing worker accountability.
Download or read book National Security Assessment of the U S Shipbuilding and Repair Industry written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book U S Shipping and Shipbuilding written by Peter T. Tarpgaard and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Why the Navy Needs U S Shipyards to Build Commercial Ships written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Procurement of Naval Ships written by Brady M. Cole and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the evolution of the Navy's serious problems in parallel with the shipbuilding industry's decline on the world market since World War II. A major portion of the industry's business now comes from government funding. While the number of shipbuilders has decreased, the industry has been dominated by a relatively small number of large corporations for whom shipbuilding is only a minor portion of their corporate business. In turn, the Navy is totally dependent on an industry increasingly inclined to challenge the Navy's procurement an contracting requirements.
Download or read book Shipbuilding Technology and Education written by Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1996-05-22 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. shipbuilding industry now confronts grave challenges in providing essential support of national objectives. With recent emphasis on renewal of the U.S. naval fleet, followed by the defense builddown, U.S. shipbuilders have fallen far behind in commercial ship construction, and face powerful new competition from abroad. This book examines ways to reestablish the U.S. industry, to provide a technology base and R&D infrastructure sustaining both commercial and military goals. Comparing U.S. and foreign shipbuilders in four technological areas, the authors find that U.S. builders lag most severely in business process technologies, and in technologies of new products and materials. New advances in system technologies, such as simulation, are also needed, as are continuing developments in shipyard production technologies. The report identifies roles that various government agencies, academia, and, especially, industry itself must play for the U.S. shipbuilding industry to attempt a turnaround.
Download or read book Ship Maintenance written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chinese Naval Shipbuilding written by Andrew S. Erickson and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China’s shipbuilding industry has grown more rapidly than any other in modern history. Commercial shipbuilding output jumped thirteen-fold from 2002–12, ensuring that Beijing has largely reached its goal of becoming the world’s leading shipbuilder. Yet progress is uneven, with military shipbuilding leading overall but with significant weakness in propulsion and electronics for military and civilian applications. It has never been more important to assess what ships China can supply its navy and other maritime forces with, today and in the future. Chinese Naval Shipbuilding answers three pressing questions: What are China’s prospects for success in key areas of naval shipbuilding? What are the likely results for China’s navy? What are the implications for the U.S. Navy? To address these critical issues, this volume assembles some of the world’s leading experts and linguistic analysts, often pairing them in research teams. These sailors, scholars, industry professionals, and government specialists have commanded ships at sea, led shipbuilding programs ashore, toured Chinese vessels and production facilities, invested in Chinese shipyards, and analyzed and presented important data to top-level decision-makers in times of crisis. In synthesizing their collective insights, this book fills a key gap in our understanding of China, its shipbuilding industry, its navy, and what it all means.
Download or read book The Shipbuilding Business in the United States of America written by Frederick Gardiner Fassett and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Commercial Shipbuilding Lessons for Navy Shipbuilders written by Pat F. Key and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delivering ships on time and within budget are imperatives in commercial shipbuilding. To ensure the design and construction of a ship can be executed as planned, commercial shipbuilders and buyers do not move forward until critical knowledge is attained. Before a contract is signed, a full understanding of the effort needed to design and construct the ship must be reached, enabling the shipbuilder to sign a contract that fixes the price, delivery date, and ship performance parameters. Navy programs often do not employ these best practices. This book examines commercial shipbuilding lessons that can be learned and applied by Navy shipbuilders.
Download or read book Differences Between Military and Commercial Shipbuilding Implications for the United Kingdom s Ministry of Defence written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can the United Kingdom's shipbuilding industry compete more broadly in commercial or foreign military markets? In this report, RAND researchers look at the current and past trends of shipbuilding worldwide and the primary differences between "military" and "commercial" shipbuilding. They find that any transition for UK shipbuilders outside current domestic production would not come easily. The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence (MOD) needs a robust and healthy shipbuilding industrial base if it is to be provided naval ships that are technically advanced and affordable. The MOD is thus interested in whether the United Kingdom's shipbuilding industry might become more competitive in commercial and foreign military marketplaces. It is the aim of this report to shed light on the prospects for the United Kingdom's re-entering the commercial market or increasing its share of the military export market. The authors base their analysis on three types of information sources. First, they reviewed the literature for pertinent documents. Of particular interest and value were Lloyd's Register of Ships, a database of existing ships and current commercial ship orders, and Warships Forecast, a 10-year projection of military ship production. Second, they surveyed 15 major shipyards (7 in the United Kingdom, 2 in the United States, and 6 in the European Union) and a consulting U.S. ship designer for their views on the feasibility and practicality of producing a mix of commercial and military vessels at a single yard. Third, they conducted interviews with personnel at shipyards responding to the survey to ensure that they understood the survey responses and to allow them to elaborate freely on the questions asked. The challenges are formidable, and their conclusions are not very encouraging, but the authors do provide some steps that the MOD and the shipbuilding industry could consider as means to improve the industry's position.
