Download or read book Report Naval Ship Research and Development Center written by David W. Taylor Naval Ship Research and Development Center and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of Ship Production written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Shipbuilding Technology and Education written by Marine Board and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1996-05-06 with total page 160 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 The Industrial Perspective written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the proceedings of the Panel SP-8 Industrial Engineering Conference 89 and the minutes of their working meetings, jointly sponsored by Ship Production Committee and the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, September 11-12, 1989, in Arlington, Virginia. The Ship Production Committee is unique in that it oversees the National Shipbuilding Research Program. This is a cost-shared effort among the nation's shipyards, which in the past has been administered through the U.S. Maritime Administration with funds supplied by the U.S. Navy. The Navy is currently in the process of assuming the Maritime Administration's role in the program. This Committee essentially functions without utilizing any of the Society's research funds. The Committee is chaired by Jesse W. Brasher, and consists of ten panels, grouped into areas of similar disciplines. The Design and Engineering grouping covers outfitting and production aids, design production integration, and marine industry standards. Production Processes oversees coatings, welding, and flexible automation while the third grouping, Resource Management considers facilities and environmental effects, shipyard organization and personnel, industrial engineering, and education. The work of this Committee is dedicated to reducing the costs of shipbuilding, overhaul, modernization, and repair, while seeking development, and implementing new ideas, techniques, and equipment in the shipbuilding industry and processes.
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 Report written by Woods Hole Conference on Maritime Research and Development and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report written by United States. Ship Structure Committee. Ship Structure Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Navy Shipbuilding written by Michele Mackin and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-20 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Navy expects to spend about $15 billion per year to provide its fleet with the most advanced ships to support national defense and military strategies. Problems with recently delivered ships have focused attention on quality issues. House Report No. 112-110, accompanying the Department of Defense (DOD) Appropriations Bill, 2012, mandated this review of the Navy's quality assurance processes for new ship construction. This report discusses, among other issues, (1) quality problems in constructing recently delivered ships and Navy actions to improve quality; and (2) key practices employed by leading commercial ship buyers and shipbuilders to ensure quality and how these compared with Navy practices. Tables and figures. This is a print on demand report.
Download or read book Technical and Research Bulletin written by Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
