Automated Planning and Design for Producability and Maintainability

Abstract

Ship construction represents one of the more challenging planning problems in industry today. The purpose of this research is to reduce ship construction and operation costs by making optimal use of available automated fabrication facilities and designing for maintainability. An efficient algorithm for solving this class of problem has been discovered and its feasibility has been validated. A design for a commercial software product using this technology designing for maintainability. An efficient algorithm for solving this class of problem has been discovered has been developed and successfully prototyped. The product would be packaged as plug-ins for commercial CAD scheduling and ERP systems. Anticipated savings are $104 million in construction costs for U.S. shipyards over a five year period.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 29, 2001
Accession Number
ADA395773

Entities

People

  • Patrick W. Rourke

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Assembly
  • Computer Programs
  • Construction
  • Engineering
  • Fabrication
  • Gantt Charts
  • Life Cycles
  • Maintainability
  • Maintenance
  • Manufacturing
  • Models
  • Production
  • Prototypes
  • Shipbuilding
  • Shipyards
  • Software Development

Readers

  • Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy Engineering.
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Software Engineering.