Engineering Management for Zone Construction of Ships
Abstract
Zone construction has been proposed as the way for the U.S. shipbuilding industry to improve its productivity and survive the current hard times. Obviously as the production requirements for zone construction are different to traditional ship construction so are the engineering. While production could perform zone construction from traditionally prepared engineering it would do so inefficiently and after waiting a long time for most of the engineering to be completed before they could start, thus defeating one of the goals of zone construction. The production department in a shipyard changing to zone construction will probably reorganize into major zone sections. To obtain maximum benefits from zone construction it is necessary for the engineering department to be like organized and managed. The paper therefore discusses engineering aspects that are influenced by the change to zone construction.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 1985
- Accession Number
- ADA451979
Entities
People
- Thomas Lamb
Organizations
- Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division