The declining Government contracts for number of ship repair and new construct ion work. and the acknowledged competitiveness Gap has resulted in the need for U.S. shipyards to face the major challenge of reducing total ship cost, construction time and their general overall approach to meet the necessary conditions of commercial ship owners in order to obtain contracts. Increased profitability is also a necessary condition for short term survival but does not ensure that these shipyards will be competitive in the commercial ship world marketplace. The significant impact on profitability and competitiveness resulting from reduction in construction time will be discussed. Construction time is defined as the time between contract award and delivery. The techniques that can be used to determine: What to change, What to change to, and How to cause the change will be described along with the paradigms that are present which greatly hamper the breaking of physical, policy and behavior constraints.


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    Title :

    National Shipbuilding Research Program. 1995 Ship Production Symposium, Paper Number 27: Increasing U.S. Shipbuilding Profitability & Competitiveness


    Contributors:
    F. H. Rack (author)

    Publication date :

    1995


    Size :

    27 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English