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D Government and Industry Programs that Invest in Shipbuilding Technology
D Government and Industry Programs that Invest in Shipbuilding Technology
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The following programs were assessed by the committee: • Maritime Systems Technology • Technology Reinvestment Project • Simulation-Based Design • National Shipbuilding Research Program • Navy Manufacturing Technology Program • Best Manufacturing Practices Program • Sealift Ship Technology Development Program • Affordability Through Commonality • Office of Naval Research Surface Ship Technology Program 114
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commercial shipbuilding industry tasked the Maritime Systems Technology Office of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) with establishing a technology-development initiative to help shipyards become internationally competitive in commercial markets and thereby help preserve the industrial base for possible future national security needs (Clinton, 1993)
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commercial-shipbuilding competitiveness by reducing ship design and construction time and cost, and (3) to integrate commercial-shipbuilding capability and secure contracts for new ship types.
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Performers are McDermott Operations Research, Alliance, Ohio; McDermott/B&W, Lynchburg, Virginia; University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana; Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries, Ltd., Japan; and MAN B&W, Germany. Cruise Ship Preliminary Design, Manufacturing Plan, and Market Analysis The objective of this project is to develop a cruise ship preliminary design and shipyard manufacturing plan.
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The proposers plan to conduct an extensive market survey and project a large international market for this type of craft. This project is funded for $400,000 over a 36-month period.
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The performers are the American Waterways Shipyard Conference, Arlington, Virginia; Bender Shipbuilding, Inc., Mobile, Louisiana; Bird-Johnson Company, Walpole, Massachusetts; McDermott Marine, Amelia, Louisiana; Steiner Shipyard, Inc., Bayou La Batre, Alabama; Trinity Marine Group, Gulfport, Mississippi; Wartsila Diesel, Inc., Annapolis, Maryland; Kværner Masa Marine, Annapolis, Maryland; Colton and Company, Arlington, Virginia; SPAR, Annapolis, Maryland; and National Ports and Waterways Institute, Arlington, Virginia. Sea Horse -- Self-Elevating Offshore Support Platform for the International Markets The objective of this project is to develop designs for self-elevating offshore support platforms for the international market.
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This project is funded for $2.3 million over 24 months. The performers are Avondale Industries, Inc., New Orleans, Louisiana; Dyer, Ellis, Joseph & Mills, Washington, D.C.; Chemical Bank, New York, New York; Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Canada; MCA Associates, Greenwich, Connecticut; Carderock Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock, Maryland; John J
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The project is funded for $1.8 million over an 18-month period. The performers are Marinex International, Hoboken, New Jersey; Metro Machine Corporation, Chester, Pennsylvania; Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi; CG International, Inc., Scott Plains, New Jersey; Ross/McNatt Naval Architects, Stevensville, Maryland; Carderock Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock, Maryland; American Bureau of Shipping, Houston, Texas; Webb Institute of Naval Architecture, Glen Cove, New York; Crandall Dry Dock Engineers, Inc., Chelsea, Massachusetts; General Electric Company, Schenectady, New York; Exxon Company, International, Florham Park, New Jersey; ARCO Marine, Inc., Long Beach, California; Texaco, Inc., White Plains, New York; Coastal Marine Corporation, Houston, Texas; Overseas Shipbuilding Group, New York, New York; Marine Engineers Beneficial Association, Brooklyn, New York; and Papachristidis (UK)
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Shipbuilding Consortium, Greenwich, Connecticut; McDermott Inc., Morgan City, Louisiana; IBM Federal Systems, Manassas, Virginia; Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Sunnyvale, California; Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp., Austin, Texas; George Washington University, Washington, D.C.; Carderock Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock, Maryland; Kværner Masa Marine, Annapolis, Maryland; Colton and Company, Arlington, Virginia; and ARCO Marine, Long Beach, California.
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Second-Year MARITECH Proposals The second year of the MARITECH program sought proposals for the development of market-oriented ship designs integrated with build strategies that can lead to competitive ship construction in one to three years. Technology development proposals were to be in the area of process-improvement technology that can dramatically improve ship design, construction, conversion, repair, and marketing processes that could make possible a revolutionary new process, heretofore limited by technology.
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The performers are Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Cheswick, Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania; Edison Chouest Offshore, Inc., Galliano, Louisiana; Ben Franklin Technology Center of Western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and Carderock Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock, Maryland. SIMULATION-BASED DESIGN ARPA is developing the prototype of a tool that could enable a revolutionary change in the ship acquisition process (Jones and Hankinson, 1994)
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Performers on the second team were Lockheed Missiles and Space Company, Newport News Shipbuilding, Science Applications International Corporation, and Fakespace. Phase Two is funded for $45 to $60 million in the president's budget over four years.
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Current research projects include environmental symposia for shipyard managers, supervisors, and environmental compliance personnel; an environmental bulletin board with updates of federal regulations; and various environmental studies and testing program projects. Other projects include a study funded by the Environmental Protection Agency to evaluate and quantify emissions from dry-dock blasting operations that documents the reduction of emissions through paint reformulations required under the California marine coatings rules.
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At the direction of the Ship Production Committee, the panel has expanded the scope of its research projects to include an international market study for U.S. shipbuilding, a joint project with Panel 8 on improving the U.S.
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The panel conducted a Marine Industry Planning Workshop, bringing together the industry's standardization leaders to create a comprehensive plan for developing and administering industry-standardization strategy. Other recent projects include drafting a new industrywide Standards Master Plan, creating a computerized compendium of standards, developing a manual for establishing and managing a shipyard standardization program, and providing support to the U.S.
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A recent project investigated methods of improving production throughput in a shipyard, with the objective of increasing throughput to reduce the cycle time of ship production from concept to delivery. Another project addressed the use of personal computers as an aid in the production planning process, developing a personal computer-based model to serve as a tool to assist planning organizations in developing, updating, and revising schedules and in staffing facility utilization reports.
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The U.S. Navy MANTECH program provides a mechanism for the development of enabling manufacturing technology in the form of new processes and equipment and for the implementation of this technology on Navy-weapon-system production lines.
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Electronics Manufacturing Productivity Facility The Electronics Manufacturing Productivity Facility, in Indianapolis, Indiana, is sponsored by Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis; the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division; and the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Aircraft Division. The facility's research is a team effort among government, industry, and academia in the areas of electronics design, assembly, test, inspection, and rework, with an emphasis on the evaluation of electronics manufacturing equipment, processes, and materials.
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Typical MANTECH Programs There are more than 60 specific MANTECH programs that have application to commercial shipbuilding, either directly through the stated objective of the program or because the program will aid shipbuilders to some degree in becoming internationally competitive even though it may have been developed for other purposes. A few of these programs, some of which have been completed, are described here.
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Plasma Spray Sensor Development The objective of this program is to assess Navy requirements for inspection of thermal spray coatings, particularly on machinery components of the submarine fleet, and to identify a sensor or sensors capable of inspecting thermal spray coatings and ensuring their quality. The project is funded for $50,000 and is being performed by the Automated Manufacturing Research Facility.
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The project was funded for $85,000 and was performed by the Automated Manufacturing Research Facility. Automated Propeller Optical Measurement System The objective of this program is to develop a high-speed, optical-inspection tool capable of automatically measuring, at low cost, the surface of a ship's propeller.
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Navy MANTECH program, is to identify the best practices used in industry, to encourage industry to share these practices among themselves, and to work together toward a common goal of high efficiency and improved product reliability. The program is very broadly based, covering government laboratories, shipyards, and other facilities.
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The center will be effective because the means has already been developed, proven, and is in operation today in the Navy BMP program and within the NIST Manufacturing Technology Center outreach program. Four BMP satellite resource centers are also being established around the nation to meet the growing number of requests for briefings, training sessions, and information on the BMP program.
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Efforts of the ATC program include increasing the producibility and supportability of naval ships, developing generic build strategies, developing new ship architectures, and working with industry to incorporate shipyard production processes into naval ship design. The program also works with the vendor base to design systems that are highly producible from a manufacturing standpoint.
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One of these technologies is the $25-million advanced double hull project, which is built around the concept of the unidirectional stiffened double hull. The project is managed by the Carderock Division of the Naval Surface Warfare Center but has many participants from other government laboratories, as well as commercial organizations.
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However, the ASTM committee most relevant to this report is Committee F-25, Ships and Marine Technology, the members of which include individuals from several government agencies, shipbuilders, ship design agents, shipowners, and suppliers of ship machinery and components. There are 12 F-25 subcommittees.
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Within the ISO, the Technical Committee for Ships and Marine Technology (TC-8) establishes international shipbuilding standards.
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Donohue, Chairman, Executive Control Board, National Shipbuilding Research Program, to the Committee on National Needs in Maritime Technology, at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., September 26, 1994. Gagorik, J
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Piersall, Jr., Chairman, U.S. Technical Advisory Group to the International Standards Organisation Technical Committee for Ships and Marine Technology, to the Committee on National Needs in Maritime Technology, at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., July 27, 1994.
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