Improving Shipyard Productivity Through the Combined Use of Process Engineering and Industrial Engineering Methods Analyses Techniques

1986 ◽  
Vol 2 (01) ◽  
pp. 42-45
Author(s):  
Tommy L. Cauthen
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Mass Production ◽  
Process Engineering ◽  
Productivity Improvement ◽  
Shipbuilding Industry ◽  
Engineering Technique ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Combined Use ◽  
Production Techniques

Despite the obvious compromises to efficiency that must be made when producing small quantities, the shipbuilding industry sometimes rules out or fails to consider some of the efficient techniques and methodologies of mass production manufacturing. In this paper a comparison and contrast is made between the methods of mass production and small quantity manufacturing. Also revealed in this paper are the benefits from the use of a mass production process engineering technique and a methods analysis technique during the performance of the National Shipbuilding Research Program SP-8 Panel Task ES-8-21. The use of a mass production process engineering technique is explained as a solution to a methods problem of excessive travel for tools in shipyard equipment installation by outside machinists. The paper concludes with a promotion of this specific application of mass production methodology in shipbuilding and a promotion of the re-evaluation of mass production techniques by shipyards as a vehicle for productivity improvement.

Shipbuilding Productivity Rates of Change in East Asia

2003 ◽  
Vol 19 (01) ◽  
pp. 32-37
Author(s):  
Philip C. Koenig ◽  
Hitoshi Narita ◽  
Koichi Baba
Keyword(s):  
Performance Improvement ◽  
Productivity Improvement ◽  
Performance Gap ◽  
Shipbuilding Industry ◽  
Global Industry ◽  
Working Paper ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Rates Of Change ◽  
Quantitative Indication ◽  
The U.S

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 gap between the U.S. industry and international shipbuilders is closing. In fact, at least in the case of the U.S. industry compared with the global industry leaders (Japan and South Korea), it is possible that the productivity gap may be widening as a result of the process of relentless performance improvement that has been under way for years in those two nations. In this working paper, we provide a quantitative indication of the rates of change in productivity in Japanese and South Korean shipyards during recent decades. Accompanying this are some comments on the environment that has produced these productivity improvement rates. With this paper, we hope to contribute to an understanding of the dynamics of international competition in the merchant shipbuilding industry.

Productivity Improvement at the SENESCO Shipyard

2003 ◽  
Vol 19 (03) ◽  
pp. 187-193
Author(s):  
Laurence P. Gebhardt ◽  
Robert G. Jarvis
Keyword(s):  
Research Program ◽  
Production Quality ◽  
Subsequent Paper ◽  
Productivity Improvement ◽  
Management Framework ◽  
Quantitative Evidence ◽  
Safety Production ◽  
Productivity Theory ◽  
A Company ◽  
Goals And Objectives

This paper examines how SENESCO, a small business shipyard, perceives and practices productivity theory within a company mission and management framework that balances safety, production, quality, and responsibility. The paper discusses the various ways in which productivity is achieved and improved at the SENESCO shipyard. Themes in this paper are consistent with goals and objectives of the National Shipbuilding Research Program (NSRP) Crosscut Initiatives Panel. Concepts in this paper could be adapted or adopted by other small to mid-sized shipyards or smaller units of larger shipyards. Quantitative evidence of our productivity improvement will be shared in a subsequent paper.

Development of an Intelligent System for Flame Straightening Panel Structures—Devices and Algorithms to be Used with Robots

1988 ◽  
Vol 4 (04) ◽  
pp. 219-227
Author(s):  
Koichi Masubuchi ◽  
Akihiko Imakita ◽  
Hiroshi Miyachi ◽  
Masayasu Miyake
Keyword(s):  
Research Program ◽  
Intelligent System ◽  
Years Of Experience ◽  
Skilled Workers ◽  
Shipbuilding Industry ◽  
Steel Panel ◽  
Intelligent Machine ◽  
Ultimate Objective

Distortions which occur during the assembly of steel panel structures can be removed by flame straightening—a technique that has been used for a number of years in the shipbuilding industry. Correct skill to perform this technique is acquired by many years of experience. The industry is concerned now about the decreasing number of skilled workers. What is needed to improve the situation is to develop a robot capable of not necessarily replacing a human worker, but helping a human worker. This paper discusses results obtained thus far in a research program of which the ultimate objective is to develop an intelligent machine capable of performing flame straightening on a deck of a ship superstructure. Discussions are given on (a) a concept of an algorithm to determine heating conditions, and (£>) sensors needed for "in-process" sensing and controlling the robot movements.

Benefits of the National Shipbuilding Research Program to the Navy and the Industrial Base: Part 3—Navy Perspective

1986 ◽  
Vol 2 (04) ◽  
pp. 209-216
Author(s):  
W. L. Christensen
Keyword(s):  
Research Program ◽  
Shipbuilding Industry ◽  
Industrial Base ◽  
Ship Construction ◽  
Ship Repair

This paper reviews the benefits of the National Shipbuilding Research Program (NSRP) to the shipbuilding industry, and more specifically, its benefits to the Navy and the shipbuilding and ship repair mobilization base. The paper also identifies significant additional benefits that the Navy can gain in the next few years if the NSRP continues not only on its present course of solving productivity problems in building new ships, but also addresses additional targets of opportunity in solving productivity problems in the overhaul, repair and modernization of Navy ships. The labor part here appears to be an even larger budget item than the labor part of new ship construction.

scholarly journals A Mass-Production Process of a Highly Pure Medical Use 99mTc from Natural Isotopic Mo(n, γ) 99Mo without Using Uranium

RADIOISOTOPES ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 63 (11) ◽  
pp. 501-513 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katsuyoshi TATENUMA ◽  
Koji ISHIKAWA ◽  
Akira TSUGUCHI ◽  
Yuko KOMATSUZAKI ◽  
Yumi SUZUKI ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Mass Production

scholarly journals The Industrial Internet and the Future of Work

2015 ◽  
Vol 137 (09) ◽  
pp. 30-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Annunziata ◽  
Stephan Biller
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Future Of Work ◽  
Industrial Internet ◽  
The Future ◽  
Production Techniques ◽  
Performance Computing ◽  
Better Than

This article focuses on the transformation and dimming lines between digital and physical worlds. Industrial Internet tools and applications also help people collaborate in a faster and smarter way – making jobs not just more efficient but more rewarding. Technological progress and economic growth are contributing to a seismic shift in the role that human beings play in the production process. Technological progress, notably in high-performance computing, robotics, and artificial intelligence, is extending the range of tasks that machines can perform better than humans can. The Future of Work is being shaped by a profound transformation, driven by the meshing of the digital and the physical worlds, the emergence of new design and production techniques, and a seismic shift in the role that human beings play in the production process. Technological progress is expected to push a growing share of the workforce toward creativity and entrepreneurship, where humans have a clear comparative advantage over machines.

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