work in industrial plant vessels,
also referred to as floating fac-
tories, floating industrial plants,
plant ships or factory ships. The
market seems to be expanding
steadily and new opportunities
are occurring on a continuing
basis. This paper reviews the
MarAd program activities and re-
cent events which may assist im-
plementation of these concepts
into the U.S. shipbuilding market.
Session III — Friday, April 8.
Theme — "New Directions"
Moderators—Wolfgang Reuter,
Session III-A, and Phillip Eisen-
berg, Session III-B.
Paper No. III-A-1 — "New Di-
rections for Navy Manufactur-
ing and Shipbuilding Technology"
by R. Ramsay.
SYNOPSIS: This paper provides
a partial overview of naval and
merchant shipbuilding industry
problems. The planning approach
for the Navy Manufacturing and
Shipbuilding Technology (MT/
ST) Program, which will support
the expanded naval construction
program, is outlined in concept.
The relative importance of pro-
duction technology, management
strategy and business structure
is discussed in context with ap-
proaches to resolution of current
problems facing the U.S. ship-
building industry.
Paper No. III-B-1—"New R&D
Direction for the U.S. Merchant
Marine" by J. Gross.
SYNOPSIS: The subject of new
R&D directions for the merchant
marine, poses several questions:
(1) what is the future of the U.S.
merchant marine, (2) what are
its opportunities, (3) are the ma-
jor problems that face the U.S.
merchant marine solvable,
(4) what is the role of research
and development and innovation
in the future merchant marine,
and (5) what then should be the
R&D directions for the U.S. mar-
itime industry? In this paper, the
author examines each of these
questions and sets forth recom-
mended R&D directions for im-
provement of the U.S. commercial
maritime industry.
Paper No. III-A-2 — "New Di-
rections for Advanced Naval Ship
Design" by N. Kobitz.
SYNOPSIS: The need to develop
a coherent method for incorpo-
rating into naval ship design the
impact of changing roles and mis-
sions, threats and technology has
long been a challenge to the de-
sign community. Over the past
several years a method has been
developed which addresses these
needs. By combining several ex-
isting operations and adding some
original concepts, a systematic
approach to naval ship design
and research requirement defini-
tion has been developed. It com-
bines the mission work of the
Office of the Chief of Naval Op-
erations with the technology of
the Naval Material Command to
produce a continuous panel of
ship alternatives from which the
CNO can choose in formulating
his shipbuilding program.
Paper No. III-B-2 — "The U.S.
Coast Guard Advanced Marine
Vehicle R&D Program: An Over-
view" by J. Milton and LCDR
J. Tozzi, USCG.
SYNOPSIS: Since its inception,
the U.S. Coast Guard Advanced
Marine Vehicle (AMV) R&D pro-
gram has been directed at the
application of AMVs to the Coast
Guard's operational missions. The
primary objective of the AMV
R&D program has been to quan-
tify the cost-benefit trade-offs
of using AMVs to perform Coast
Guard operational missions. The
approach has been to conduct
operations analyses in conjunc-
tion with literature reviews and
operational and technical evalu-
ations of specific vehicles. At
present, some of the operations'
research tools which have been
developed are being applied to
support the upcoming replace-
ment of seventy-six 95-foot and
82-foot patrol boats. In the fu-
ture, these tools may be refined
and updated to support other ves-
sel acquisitions.
Panel Discussion — "New Di-
rections for Education to Sup-
port Ship Design and Construc-
tion."
Moderator—Wolfgang Reuter,
executive vice president, Design-
er and Planners, Inc.
Panel Members:
Vice Adm. C.R. Bryan, USN
(ret.), president, Webb Institute
(continued on page 26)
IS WHERE YOU ARE
Anixter's computer-linked network
off warehouses gives you instant access
to all the shipboard cable you need.
Any type.
Any size.
Any length.
Anytime.
Anywhere in the world.
mxm
BROS.,INC.
SERVICE IS OUR TECHNOLOGY. t.
CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS, ANIXTER BROS., INC.. 4711 Golf Road, Skokie, IL 60076, (312) 677-2600 (TELEX 289464)
In Canada call Anixter-Canada. Montreal (514) 637-3511: In the U K call London 1-568-1681; In Europe call Brussels 2-64072-63
Anixter Bros. Inc. 1983
March 15, 1983 Write 488 on Reader Service Card 27
Digital Wave Publishing