The National Shipbuilding Research Program, 1991 Ship Production Symposium Proceedings: Paper No. VB-2. Manufacturing Software for Shipyards

Abstract

Shipbuilders (or any manufacturers, for that matter) are confronted with hundreds of choices of computer software for controlling manufacturing in today's market. The software, however can, be differentiated by certain salient features or assumptions which may or may not work in the shipbuilding environment. This paper will explore, in general terms, how shipbuilding is different (or the same) from other manufacturers in ways that are significant for the selection of these manufacturing computer systems. Some of the issues to be discussed are master scheduling, configuration management and project based production and inventory control.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA457872

Entities

People

  • Charles Zigelman

Organizations

  • National Steel and Shipbuilding Company

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Assembly
  • Construction
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • End Items
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Manufacturing
  • Mass Production
  • Materials
  • Naval Architecture
  • Production
  • Scheduling (Production)
  • Shipbuilding
  • Shipyards
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Industrial Economics
  • Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.
  • Theoretical Analysis.