Shipyards and Facilities
Author | : United States. Surplus Property Administration |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1946 |
Genre | : Government publications |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : United States. Surplus Property Administration |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1946 |
Genre | : Government publications |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Military bases |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Special Subcommittee on Utilization of Naval Shipyard Facilities |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Navy-yards and naval stations |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 1996-05-22 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 030905382X |
The U.S. shipbuilding industry now confronts grave challenges in providing essential support of national objectives. With recent emphasis on renewal of the U.S. naval fleet, followed by the defense builddown, U.S. shipbuilders have fallen far behind in commercial ship construction, and face powerful new competition from abroad. This book examines ways to reestablish the U.S. industry, to provide a technology base and R&D infrastructure sustaining both commercial and military goals. Comparing U.S. and foreign shipbuilders in four technological areas, the authors find that U.S. builders lag most severely in business process technologies, and in technologies of new products and materials. New advances in system technologies, such as simulation, are also needed, as are continuing developments in shipyard production technologies. The report identifies roles that various government agencies, academia, and, especially, industry itself must play for the U.S. shipbuilding industry to attempt a turnaround.
Author | : Thomas Heinrich |
Publisher | : Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2020-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1682475530 |
Warship Builders is the first scholarly study of the U.S. naval shipbuilding industry from the early 1920s to the end of World War II, when American shipyards produced the world's largest fleet that helped defeat the Axis powers in all corners of the globe. A colossal endeavor that absorbed billions and employed virtual armies of skilled workers, naval construction mobilized the nation's leading industrial enterprises in the shipbuilding, engineering, and steel industries to deliver warships whose technical complexity dwarfed that of any other weapons platform. Based on systematic comparisons with British, Japanese, and German naval construction, Thomas Heinrich pinpoints the distinct features of American shipbuilding methods, technology development, and management practices that enabled U.S. yards to vastly outproduce their foreign counterparts. Throughout the book, comparative analyses reveal differences and similarities in American, British, Japanese, and German naval construction. Heinrich shows that U.S. and German shipyards introduced electric arc welding and prefabrication methods to a far greater extent than their British and Japanese counterparts between the wars, laying the groundwork for their impressive production records in World War II. While the American and Japanese navies relied heavily on government-owned navy yards, the British and German navies had most of their combatants built in corporately-owned yards, contradicting the widespread notion that only U.S. industrial mobilization depended on private enterprise. Lastly, the U.S. government's investments into shipbuilding facilities in both private and government-owned shipyards dwarfed the sums British, Japanese, and German counterparts expended. This enabled American builders to deliver a vast fleet that played a pivotal role in global naval combat.
Author | : United States Strategic Bombing Survey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1946 |
Genre | : Bombardment |
ISBN | : |
Author | : George Bruce |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2020-12-05 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9811589755 |
This book highlights the main features of shipbuilding management which lead to successful completion of shipbuilding projects. A brief review of the market context for the industry, its historical development are given to explain how shipbuilding arrived at its current structure. First pre-production including design, planning, cost estimating, procurement of materials and sub-contracting. Then, the production sequence outlines part preparation, hull assembly and construction, outfitting and painting, testing and completion. The importance of human resources and management organisation are explained. Building a ship is a complex project, so the principles of project management are described, first in general terms and then with specific reference to their application in shipbuilding. Finally managing the progress of a shipbuilding project and achieving completion are emphasised.
Author | : United States. Commission on Merchant Marine and Defense |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Bulk carrier cargo ships |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Merchant Marine |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1264 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Development banks |
ISBN | : |