Notes on advanced shipbuilding techniques designed to provide economies of mass production into building of custom designed vessels, which are being introduced at 66-yr-old Bethlehem Steel shipyard acquired by General Dynamics Corp in 1964; among these, steel cleaning facility is able to clean three-dimensional sub-assemblies of up to 75 tons in weight by blasting them with some 8 tons of steel shot/min; this process, which previously took average of 50 hr when carried out manually, is now effected in some 5 hr per sub-assembly. (27311)


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    Title :

    Quincy, Massachusetts. General Dynamics modernises old American shipyard


    Additional title:

    Shipbldg Shipping Rec


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1969


    Size :

    3 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :



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