Download or read book The National Ship building Research Program Proceedings of the REAPS Technical Symposium Paper No 30 Planning and Production Control for Small and Medium Size Yards Special Interest Group Meeting Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the introduction of the individuals and the yards attending the meeting, the purpose of the meeting was explained. The meeting was to provide an informal forum for people with common interests to exchange ideas and experiences within a particular area. There were 10 to 12 yards participating in the discussion. Areas of common interest discussed included: Work measurement standards and their application: Two of the yards present will participate in the upcoming funded program to develop methods for developing predetermined shipyard standards for skills common to shipbuilding. The application and use of work packages for labor material control. and scheduling purposes. Numerical control application and techniques. Computer application other than Business and Accounting. The use of computers in small and intermediate yards for business purposes is an accepted practice. There was, and is, much interest in computer application for labor control, performance to budget or plan information, manage ment information, and technical numerical control application.
Download or read book The National Shipbuilding Research Program Proceedings of the REAPS Technical Symposium Paper No 22 Implementation of a Practical Planning and Production Control System in Small and Medium Sized Shipyards written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small and medium sized shipyards (200 to 1000 employees), particularly those growing rapidly from hands-on control by a few managers to a size requiring delegation of authority to superintendents and foremen, find that they have all the management control problems of the major shipbuilders but without the staff and administrative resources to easily cope with them. Typically we find the small shipyard operating at best with a schedule covering a few key events, no integration of engineering output with production needs, an accounting system which accepts cost charging to few accounts but without budgets or work packages to control scope, schedule and manning, drawings without bills of material and every supervisor in the company participating as a material expeditor. Although the depth of detail required in a small shipyard planning and production control system will vary with product complexity, personnel strengths, and contract construction period, the basic elements of a sound system are markedly similar and cannot be ignored without incurring loss of performance.
Download or read book The National Shipbuilding Research Program Proceedings of the REAPS Technical Symposium Paper No 9 The Ingalls Production Planning and Control System written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ingalls' Production Planning and Control System assists in planning, scheduling, budgeting and tracking each work authorization developed to support the construction of each ship. The system is comprised of modules that have specific functions within the System and some of the modules interface with other modules. At the nucleus of Ingalls Production Planning and Control System is the Consolidated Data Base which provides all data that is required for the other modules.
Download or read book The National Shipbuilding Research Program Proceedings of the REAPS Technical Symposium Paper No 7 Shipyard Planning and the Computer Fact Or Fantasy written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The planning environment in American shipyards has undergone a change[of technique and attitude with the upswing in use of computers. Traditional planning mechanisms have given way to PERT networks and sophisticated data collection and reporting computer systems. This transition has not been as successful as was intended as evidenced by the planning and scheduling problems faced by many of these computerized yards. Data processing was moved from the basic accounting arena into operations research and massive production-oriented systems which has diluted the planning effort. This is caused by planners which have not evolved from production, a planning attitude that the computer can solve all problems. and management's inability to recognize the shortcomings of computer software. Technology is available to assist the shipyard with total planning and complete ship's plans and schedules. However planning. in itself, must be adapted to use this computer technology and not be driven by it.
Download or read book The National Shipbuilding Research Program Proceedings of the REAPS Technical Symposium Paper No 18 Organizing for Numerical Control Production written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the optimum organizational pattern in a shipyard for application of Numerical Control (NC)? A precise answer to this question does not exist. Many things influence a shipyard s operation: management attitudes, personnel availability, finances, and geographical limitations are but a few. Without consideration for any of these factors, a good NC structure for a shipyard should be as follows: A computer applications section to develop or procure the software necessary for a good NC program; A fairing group, established in a department, that has the ability to manually fair a ship, and the adaptability to learn computer fairing; A scientific section that uses the data base for hull calculation programs, and provides the basic information needed for fairing and hulload; A hull engineering department, producing accurate drawings by utilizing the data base for drafting purposes, and supplying detailed information for fairing and hulload; A hulload group initial loading comprised of engineering and NC loft people -- of the data base should be done by hull engineering, with the NC loft, taking responsibility for the maintenance of hulload when part generation begins; and An NC mold, under production management, whose duties include part generation and nesting programming, as well as data base control -- this group should have access to whatever equipment is necessary to accomplish their duties. A review of the NC operations of several successful shipyards will be an effective method of determining a suitable NC system. Such a study will enable management to decide what hardware, software, and organizational pattern would best suit their needs.
Download or read book The National Shipbuilding Research Program Proceedings of the REAPS Technical Symposium Paper No 8 WORK PAC Work Planning and Control System written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WORK-PAC, Work Planning and Control System, is a complete computer software package designed to improve shipyard labor planning and to monitor labor charges against planned estimates, measure job progress and give notice to both real and potential labor over-runs and schedule slippages. WORK-PAC permits a ship repair/conversion or new construction project to be broken down into discrete work orders, which can be classified under any given set of work cost account categories: steel work; piping, electrical and machinery systems; outfit; design/drawing; and yard support services. To further facilitate labor scheduling and control, WORK-PAC allows these work orders to be assignable to specific ship zones and shop work centers. The input of planned manhours (with or without trade estimate detail) and scheduled start and finish dates and the actual manhours from timecards as applied to these work orders completes the planning feedback cycle that is tailored to shipyard operations. WORK-PAC accumulates labor charges by individual trade, differentiating between regular and premium manhours. In addition, a special WORK-PAC feature provides for separate accounting of job repair end re-work efforts as required. WORK-PAC generates numerous reports and analyses for various. levels of the shipyard organization and at various levels of detail. WORK-PAC issues automatic warnings of data errors and signals areas of budget over-runs and/or schedule slippages early in the production cycle before they become critical and while they are still resolvable.
Download or read book The National Shipbuilding Research Program Proceedings of the REAPS Technical Symposium Paper No 10 SPCS A Comprehensive System for Shipyard Production Control The National Shipbuilding Research Program written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With shipbuilding capacity worldwide well in excess of demand and competition for orders extremely fierce, shipyards must ensure that all resources are used effectively. Each man on the shop floor, each foreman and manager must be able to carry out the work required of him - which means that he must be provided with all the required information on the work to be done and the means to carry it out. The competition for orders, quite apart from resulting in shorter lead times, has resulted in shipyards building a wider range of products than was envisaged even a short time ago. The potential. variety of individual operations within a shipyard in this situation is much higher than in the case of a single product facility. The information channels used in this production system are similarly going to require greater capacity, speed and accuracy. SPCS is a flexible and uncomplicated approach to production control, aiming to supplement management rather than to replace management decision making by black-box decision rules. It consists of a set of inter-tied modules, each of which is executed either manually or by batch computer processing or on-line, depending on local circumstances.
Download or read book The National Shipbuilding Research Program Proceedings of the REAPS Technical Symposium Paper No 3 Navy Manufacturing Technology Program written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the REAPS Technical Symposium. Paper No 3: Navy Manufacturing Technology Program.
Download or read book The National Shipbuilding Research Program Proceedings of the REAPS Technical Symposium Paper No 12 On Line Data Entry at Port Weller The National Shipbuilding Research Program written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In March of 1976, the decision was made at Port Weller Dry Docks to purchase an in-house computer system to expand our use of computer programs and to update our present systems. At that time two systems were in operation at Port Weller. The accounting and labor distribution programs were executed on a Litton-McBee paper tape oriented computer system, and the production planning and control, numerical control, and design programs were executed on a UNIVAC 1108 time sharing system using a remote batch terminal for data transmission.
Download or read book NATIONAL SHIPBUILDING RESEARCH PROGRAM BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PUBLICATIONS AND MICROFICHE INDEX 1973 1992 written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The National Shipbuilding Research Program Proceedings of the REAPS Technical Symposium Paper No 11 SPADES Progress in U S Shipbuilding The National Shipbuilding Research Program written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The major shipyards that utilize SPADES and Call and Associates have organized a user group. Annual two-day SPADES user meetings are held in danuary of each year to discuss problems and improvements to the system. The SPADES steering committee meets just after the user meeting and again in dune (in conjunction with the REAPS meeting) to make official decisions on problems improvements or changes. At these sessions, priorities for Call and Associates to work toward are established. A problem identification form and a suggestion and improvement form were designed and adopted with a procedure for informing Call and Associates and all SPADES users about changes or problems within the system. Call and Associates assigns a unique identification number to these forms and submits comments. The Steering Committee serves as a catalyst to Call and Associates for constant improvement of the SPADES System.
Download or read book The National Shipbuilding Research Program Proceedings of the REAPS Technical Symposium Paper No 1 Practical Shipbuilding Research and Development written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ship Production Committee is made up of representatives from approximately twenty-four shipbuilders plus the American Bureau of Shipping, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Navy Research and Development and, of course, the Maritime Administration whose budget is the backbone of this vital project. We poll the industries to see who would use the results of a research project. The more yards that would use, the higher the priority; the higher the potential saving, the higher the priority. We then list the projects in priority sequence, see how far the budget reaches for the year, and submit those to the Maritime Administration for approval. When approved and a shipyard agrees to act as sponsor, a suggested contract is worked out between the sponsor shipyard and the Maritime Administration. The most valuable result of this program is that the shipyards are talking to each other at the working level for the betterment of our industry.
Download or read book The National Shipbuilding Research Program Proceedings of the REAPS Technical Symposium Paper No 1 Ship Production Committee Panel Overviews written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Research and Engineering for Automation and Productivity in Shipbuilding (REAPS) program aims at increasing U.S. shipyard productivity. The organization, activities and current and planned development projects of the program are reviewed. The 1980 symposium focuses on developing a consensus on a format for long range facility plans, with an emphasis on cost effectiveness and environmental impacts.
Download or read book The National Shipbuilding Research Program Proceedings of the REAPS Technical Symposium Paper No 15 Use of PRELIKON at Zigler Shipyards written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this paper is to demonstrate to its readers that it is possible for a shipyard, the size of Zigler, to maintain a small but an effective engineering group provided it is supported by a powerful tool like PRELIKON. Further, an inhouse engineering department in a shipyard reduces communication gaps between engineering and production, thus giving rise to increased productivity.
Download or read book The National Shipbuilding Research Program Proceedings of the REAPS Technical Symposium Paper No 6 SPADES System Current Developments written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For enhancement of the SPADES System, three new modules are currently planned and under development: 1) Ship Production and Control Module (SPAC) - A management information system which utilizes the information collected on the SPADES data base. 2) Detail Engineering Module (DEMO) - A module that is designed not only to produce engineering drawings, but to aid in data collection and consequent loading of the data base with information generated by the Engineering Department. 3) Pipe Length and End-Cuts Program (PLEC) - A special program to aid in fabrication of complex three-dimensional pipe structures, which is of special interest to manufacturers of oil rig structures. Like all other modules of SPADES, these new modules will directly access the SPADES data base, utilizing information that has been generated by other modules, and in turn making it. Thus, information is available to the other modules information gathered by collected and stored where it is generated. There will be no need to recreate information by other departments downstream with the duplication of effort and a high probability of errors. The three new modules will continue the expansion of SPADES from an Numerical Control manufacturing method to a computer-controlled information flow throughout the entire design and construction period.
Download or read book The National Shipbuilding Research Program Proceedings of the REAPS Technical Symposium Paper No 17 Minicomputer Applications for Long Range Planning written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the REAPS Technical Symposium. Paper No. 17: Minicomputer Applications for Long Range Planning.
Download or read book The National Shipbuilding Research Program Proceedings of the REAPS Technical Symposium Paper No 21 Planning and Scheduling Ship Construction Subject to Limited Resources written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The over-riding concern in shipbuilding today is how to increase productivity. However, attention instead should be focused upon improving management policy. Quality of goods and services produced and the improvement of production operations from a controlled learning experience should be management's primary goals. By concentrating on these, increased productivity will be a by-product. The learning process, however, requires a basis from which management, can evaluate past performance and develop a program for avoiding failures and improving upon the successes. This basis does not evolve by happenstance. It must be the result of deliberate, careful and reasonably detailed planning and a means for capturing actual performance against the plan. This discussion addresses the vital need to consider and accommodate the impact of limited resources (manpower, floor space crane capacity, etc.) to the planning Problem. Often ignored by planning, resources, if not available in sufficient quantities, or not applied properly, will most definitely lead to higher costs and longer production schedules.
