.... Consideration is given to a paradigm shift consisting of a ship envelope constructed by a primarily commercial shipbuilder, which is then transferred to a naval shipyard integrator for completion, including insertion of those modules which are purely naval mission-oriented. In the context of such consideration...

...Paul W. Stott Commercial shipbuilding in the 21 st century is dominated by large suppliers, constructing series' of ships in highly efficient shipyards. The industry would be unrecognizable to shipbuilders from a century ago and this raises the question as to when the modern form developed. Much...

...Myung Gi Back; Jong Hun Woo; Philippe Lee; Jong Gye Shin Since the global financial crisis of 2008, the global shipbuilding industry has changed considerably and placed major Korean shipbuilding companies (mostly common carrier builders) in a precarious position. Current competitiveness...

... contributor to unnecessary work content growth later in Detail Design and Construction (DD&C) that cannot be eliminated no matter how productive the shipbuilder. However, new ship design methods are being developed and integrated with legacy physicsbased design and analysis tools into a Rapid Ship Design...

...Emerson C. Colin; Marcos M. O. Pinto This paper presents an analysis of the historical and current asset turnover of several shipbuilding companies and regions, such being responsible for more than 50% of global production. Several turnover measures are used including, as inputs, main physical...

...Marcos M. O. Pinto; Emerson C. Colin This paper presents an analysis of the ship purchasing process and suggests to shipbuilders a methodology to identify the attractiveness of different markets in terms of location. Two analyses are carried out to identify if there is any correlation between...

...William O. Gray Since WW II, major US shipbuilders have been unable to compete in price with shipyards in other parts of the world, and often the quality from US yards has been inferior to world standards. Furthermore, the mistaken US government assumption that shipyards and ship owners have...

...Eunchang Lee; Jong Gye Shin; Yongtae Park Risk management in shipbuilding projects is important in practice, but there have been few studies about risk assessment in the shipbuilding industry. The purpose of this study is to identify critical risks in shipbuilding projects and to examine...

...Robert G. Keane; Howard Fireman; Daniel W. Billingsley In October 1989, the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) conducted the Ship Design for Producibility Workshop with broad participation from the Navy, shipbuilders, ship design agents, and academia. The Workshop was one of NAVSEA's first Total...

... risk management pareto chart metric optimization problem ship performance metric theoretical approach incentive independent metric ship production equation assumption margin selection probability margin combination optimality condition shipbuilder penalty function Theoretical...

... simulation optimization problem metric independent metric construction cost frontier requirement pareto chart risk level algorithm machine learning marine transportation customer performance metric shipbuilder penalty function ship production margin combination penalty design parameter...

...Howard M. Bunch Several industrial sectors within India are at the cutting edge of technology and world class in their sector capabilities. Sadly, the shipbuilding industry is not one of these sectors at the moment. It is uncompetitive in cost and in delivery time, and most of the major shipyards...

...Philip C. Koenig; Hitoshi Narita; Koichi Baba Effective development and implementation of shop-floor automation is one of the keys to continued Japanese shipbuilding competitiveness. Manufacturing technology is implemented to serve a market strategy, and in many heavy industries (e.g...

...Philip C. Koenig; Hitoshi Narita; Koichi Baba Overseas shipyards routinely deliver oceangoing merchant vessels at prices that are a fraction of what the best-performing U.S. shipbuilders are able to quote. Despite efforts to attain commercial competitiveness, it is not clear that the performance...

.... Ministry of Defence (MoD) and carried out by First Marine International, has been undertaken in partnership with leading U.K. and European shipbuilders. Three different methods have been used to calculate factors for a Type 23 frigate and an auxiliary oiler replenishment vessel. There was a good...

...Philip C. Koenig; Hitoshi Narita; Koichi Baba The Japanese ocean-going shipbuilding industry has evolved into two distinct sectors and today's second tier or medium-sized firms build close to half the nation's output of large ocean-going vessels. Many vessels recently delivered by the major...

..., through shipbuilder's trials and operations. Through careful thought, engineering, and communications with all involved, from design, construction, and operation, a quality product with schedule reduction is ensured using modular outfitting. Each phase of modular outfitting is discussed to explain how...

... of meta analysis of available literature, interviews, and survey of shipbuilding industry personnel. The system is designed for self use by organizational members, and produces output that serves as basis for dialogue about changes necessary to increase the innovative capacity of a shipbuilding...

... Cost curve Implementation unit output shipbuilder ship production strategic planning and management investment hardware investment development strategy competitiveness employee year gradient 1 11 1997 1 11 1997 1997. The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers...

...Joel Milano; Ben Kassel; Douglas Mauk Robotic manufacturing systems have provided improvements in productivity and quality in the automotive and semiconductor industries. Shipbuilding, however, is a one-of-a-kind manufacturing process and as such embodies a completely different set of problems than...