This document represents Avondale shipyards Long Range Facility Plan. The plan is, in part, a response to an industry priority set forth by the Merchant Marine Act of 1970: to improve shipbuilding productivity and reduce shipbuilding while maintaining requisite high standards for critical processes and operations. This long range facility plan is an integral part of dale Shipyards' Ishikawasima-Harmima Heavy Industries costs pro- Avon- (IHI) Technology Implementation Program. The primary objectives are to decrease the time between the contract date and ship delivery and to increase productivity and reduce cost. The purpose of Avondale Shipyards' Long Range Facility the overall parameters for the growth and the Main and Westwego Yards looking as far Plan is to establish development of both as is practical into the future. Through this effort, development patterns can be established within which succeeding growth phases can be planned.
National Shipbuilding Research Program
1983
73 pages
Report
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English