Shipbuilding and Shipyard Practice

Can a shipyard work towards lean shipbuilding or agile manufacturing?

Lean production is regarded by many as simply an enhancement of mass production methods, whereas agility implies breaking out of the mass-production mould and producing much more highly customized products—where the customer wants them in any quantity. In a product line context, it amounts to striving for economies of scope, rather than economies of scale ideally serving ever-smaller niche mark...

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Shipbuilding Organization Simulation Modelling

System Dynamic Continuous Computer Simulation sub model of the Business-production Shipbuilding Process – PSBP, which building started during 1991/92, in the frame work of the global science project with title “ORGANIZATION MODELING OF THE PRODUCTION PREPARING DEPARTMENT IN MARINE SHIPBUILDING” financed by Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of Croatia, No: 2-09-366, has been a r...

OECD Council Working Party on Shipbuilding (WP6) ENVIRONMENTAL AND CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUES IN THE SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY

This report examines a number of environmental, climate change and sustainable development (green growth) issues that are affecting the shipbuilding industry. The report notes that like other heavy fabricating sectors shipbuilding involves the use of materials and manufacturing practices that can impact on the environment, can contribute to climate change. The report also points out that as wel...

Hospital admissions before and after shipyard closure.

"To determine the effect of job loss on health an investigation was made of admissions to hospitals in 887 men five years before and three years after the closure of a Danish shipyard. The control group comprised 441 men from another shipyard. The information on hospital admissions was obtained from the Danish national register of patients. The relative risk of admission in the control group dr...