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...

This paper is, centering on the requirement of the modern shipbuilding mode, to study on the project of digital comprehensive capability platform for shipbuilding. The purpose was to realize high integration and collaboration among the functions of design, manufacturing and management in shipbuilding enterprises, and form a high collaborated industry chain with its suppliers and client-industri...

The paper takes the shipbuilding enterprise as the subject of study, analyzes the market pattern of world shipbuilding enterprise, presents shipbuilding virtual enterprise based on agile manufacturing according to the present situation and development trend of our shipbuilding enterprise, and describes the solution scheme of shipbuilding virtual enterprise information integration platform. The ...

This paper presents a scheme for large engineering project risk management using a Bayesian belief network and applies it to the Korean shipbuilding industry. Twenty-six different risks were deduced from expert interviews and a literature review. A survey analysis was conducted on 252 experts from 11 major Korean shipbuilding companies in April 2007. The overall major risks were design change, ...

Shipbuilding industry is undergoing a change, in which many European shipyards focus on special purpose vessels. This field of shipbuilding places very high demands on engineering, commissioning and operation of the vessels. To support these fields of activity with virtual methods an innovative approach is introduced which strengthens the shipbuilding process by using a uniform common model of ...

Many major shipbuilding enterprises outsource the professional IT work to reduce costs and improve efficiency. In recent years, shipbuilding enterprises have become one of the most important IT outsourcing customers all over the world. In this paper, the key influence factors of the choice of outsourcing service providers are analyzed by AHP to support the decision of shipbuilding enterprises.

Shipbuilding industry in Norway, mainly operating in the Engineer-to-order environment, is one of the most innovative in the world in terms of technology and production methods. In this paper we investigate the applicability of the concept of remanufacturing in the shipbuilding industry. The research takes a case study approach to study the topic and also presents an overview of the existing li...

Shipbuilding industry was developed and grown in the late 19 and early 20 centuries. The Turkish shipbuilding industry started to develop in an international level around 15 years ago with specialization in small tonnage vessels. The global economic crisis that started in 2008 has affected the enhancement of shipbuilding industry in Turkey. This study addresses the important factors affecting t...

During the 16 th and 17 th -centuries European seafaring underwent an incredible transformation driven mainly by the exploration of newly discovered lands, the contact with previously unknown cultures, and the increase in maritime commerce. The social changes that resulted from this cultural revolution affected the long chain of events entailed by the construction of oceangoing ships and determ...