The purpose of the study was to assess the technical and economic feasibility of the development, industry-wide acceptance, and implementation of propulsion plant standards from the viewpoint of reducing the cost and time of shipbuilding in the United States. The study was to answer the question, 'Can standards for propulsion plants benefit ship producibility.' A further objective of the study was to determine the type and level of standards appropriate for systems and subsystems of a propulsion plant and then to consolidate the standards into logical groups. Standards for both the software and hardware of propulsion plants were to be considered, and skeleton formats were to be prepared for the proposed standards. Once the technical feasibility was evaluated, the standards were to be submitted to a comprehensive economic analysis. The economic analysis was to give equal consideration to dollar savings and time savings in the design, procurement, and installation of machinery. The overall objective of the study was to conclude whether the shipbuilding industry should pursue development of standards for propulsion plants. If an affirmative conclusion resulted, the study team was required to recommend a plan for the initiation of the standards development program. The scope of the work was set by limiting the study to the propulsion machinery for those commercial cargo carriers of 10,000 DWT and above likely to be built in the United States over the next decade.
Propulsion Plant Standards Feasibility Study
1975
11 pages
Report
No indication
English