Shipyard Productivity Enhancement Opportunities

Darren Begg
BMT Fleet Technology Limited

Presented At: 
CWA Conference 2014

The National Shipbuilding Research Program (NSRP) is a US Government initiative that provides funding to researchers and shipyards to improve the techniques and technologies used in shipbuilding. The tools developed under this program should help to reduce overall shipbuilding costs and to improve the structural integrity of ships built to both commercial and naval standards with the objective of making them more affordable and prolonging their life cycle, respectively. A very large percentage of shipbuilding costs is related to welding and so the NSRP has a sub panel that is dedicated to continuously advancing welding technologies and related joining techniques. As ship designers turn to the use of higher strength steels the shipbuilders must also evolve and adopt processes that can achieve the desired joint properties and to as well minimize distortion and rework.

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