Navy Purchasing And NAVSEA
Officials Address Marine
Machinery Association Seminar
Left to right, Jack Flannigan (Terry Corporation) newly elected president of the Associa-
tion, and Jack Janetatos (Baker & McKenzie) past president of the Association. Daniel
Marangiello (ORI, Inc.) MMA executive director.
More than 80 key marketing and
sales executives representing some
40 leading marine machinery manu-
facturing companies currently sell-
ing to the U.S. Navy attended a
recent seminar in Washington, D.C.
conducted by the Marine Machin-
ery Association (MMA).
Rear Adm. James Nunnelly,
USN (Ret.), president of the Ameri-
can Society of Naval Engineers, wel-
comed attendees at the seminar and
commented on the importance of
the work of the MMA to the Navy
and to the nation. He wished the
association continued success.
Organized specifically for the
Navy market when it was founded
more than a year ago, the non-profit
MMA is the first and only organiza-
tion of its type. It is a recognized,
fully operational, and growing asso-
ciation with notable successes al-
ready to its credit.
The main purpose of MMA, large-
ly achieved in a surprisingly short
period of time, is to establish a
united presence in Washington to
work more closely with the Navy to
help solve problems, to more effi-
ciently meet Navy requirements,
and to increase cooperation and
generally improve working relation-
ships for the mutual benefit of both
the Navy and the marine equipment
suppliers.
In his welcoming address, MMA
executive director Daniel Maran-
giello of ORI, Inc. told how MMA
founders were particularly con-
cerned with extensive, costly, and
continuing problems created for
both the Navy and the equipment
manufacturers in the critical area of
spare parts and service.
He noted that there is a great
need to close the communications
gap between the users (the Fleet),
Richard McFarland, executive director,
Navy Ship Parts Control Center.
Rados Converts
Purse Seiner
(continued)
held at a temperature of —30 C.
The vessel is capable of storing 513
tons of frozen, cartoned fish.
The new liquid ammonia circulat-
ing refrigeration system includes
three 100-hp Mycom Compressors,
Model N62B, with associated con-
densers, receivers, ammonia pumps
and accessories.
Originally designed with engine
room and machinery spaces in the
Rear Adm. James Nunnelly, USN (Ret ),
president, ASNE.
the purchasers, and the technical
community. He pointed out that it
was the obligation of the technical
community to exercise its integrity
and to insist on requisite quality. If
the technical community does not
lead and demand quality parts and
service, Fleet reliability will suffer
and the maintenance burden of
ships' personnel will increase, he
stated.
Mr. Marangiello concluded by
warning that if the technical com-
munity did not stand up for techni-
cal excellence, the reputable manu-
facturers will not be able to compete
with suppliers who have no engi-
neering, no quality assurance, no
traceability, and no product liabili-
ty. The end result will be 100 sup-
pliers, each of whom can build a
spark plug but none of whom can
build an engine. Such a situation,
Mr. Marangiello stated, could be
catastrophic for the industry, the
Navy, and the country.
Jack Janetatos, then president
of the MMA, spoke on ethics in
business. Ethics, he noted, must be
a requirement not only for the man-
ufacturer but also for the govern-
ment. Government personnel must
feel a sense of obligation for their
actions in dealing with manufactur-
ers.
He described how the government
was issuing challenges to rights and
data solely for the purpose of forc-
ing manufacturers into a decision
not to defend their rights because of
the prohibitive cost and time in-
volved in such legal actions. In the
view of the association, this is im-
proper conduct and not in the spirit
of good, ethical business practice, he
concluded.
Richard McFarland, executive
director of the Navy Ship Parts
Control Center in Mechaniesberg,
forward portion of the ship, the two
forward fishwells both port and
starboard, have been converted into
a refrigeration machinery space and
a hydraulic machinery space. The
refrigeration machinery space hous-
ing compressors, condensers, receiv-
ers, chillers, pumps and accessories,
is located on the port side while the
hydraulic machinery space, housing
the four Kawasaki/Japan 100 HP
hydraulic pumps responsible for
winch operations and hydraulic
equipment through out the vessel, is
located on the starboard side of the
Pa., addressed the seminar on his
operations. He stated that SPCC
maintained good security of rights
and data, and it is their commit-
ment to do so. He admitted that the
SPCC had no Quality Assurance per
se, and that it depended totally
upon NAVSEA for instructions and
guidance in this regard. He noted
that this was right, as it is the tech-
nical community that has the
knowledge, expertise, and responsi-
bility in this area.
Hon. Robert McClory, former
member of Congress with 20 years
of service in the House of Represen-
tatives, gave a report on the legisla-
vessel. This arrangement provided
for increased space and mainte-
nance area around each major piece
of equipment.
Extensive electronic ^instrumen-
tation includes Furuno communica-
tion, navigation and fishing equip-
ment supplied by Honor Marine of
San Diego. For ship's communica-
tions, a new SSB radio-telephone
and VHF/FM radio telephone were
added. The new navigation equip-
ment included two Model FR 1011
radar units, a Loran C, an electro-
magnetic log, a direction finder, two
tive efforts of the association during
the past year, and noted the signifi-
cant impact of the MMA on several
pieces of legislation. He also out-
lined plans for the coming year,
including testimony before the
House Armed Services Committee
and its Subcommittees.
Jack Flannigan of Terry Cor-
poration was elected president of
the association to succeed Mr. Ja-
netatos. He thanked the board of
directors for its confidence, Mr. Ja-
natatos for his extraordinary ef-
forts during the past year, and
vowed to continue efforts to restore
honest, fair, and true competition.
echosounders and a facsimile receiv-
er. Additional electronic fishing
equipment included two net record-
ers, a catch monitor, water tempera-
ture indicators and a color video
sounder, Model FCV-121-ET.
The completed conversion was
undertaken and directed by Marine
Service Enterprise of Del Mar, Cal-
if., and completed in May 1985.
After successful sea trials, the Alas-
ka I departed for Arctic fishing
grounds and is reported to be suc-
cessfully fishing the Arctic waters.
The membership list of the MARINE MACHINERY ASSOCIATION
is constantly growing. Current members of the Marine Machinery Asso-
ciation include the following leading corporations:
Allied Corporation
Atlantis Services Inc.
Bendex Electro Dynamic
Division
Buffalo Pumps, Div. of Buffalo
Forge
Byron Jackson Pump
Elliott Company
Gimpel Corporation
Hale Fire Pump
Hardie-Tynes Manufactur-
ing Co.
John Crane
Ingersoll-Rand
Engineered Pump Div.
Ingersoll-Rand
Compressor Div.
Marotta Scientific Controls
Leslie Co.
Pacific Pump
Sargent Industries
Solar Turbines, Inc.
Terry Corporation
Transamerican Delaval, Inc.
Treadwell Corporation
Trubodyne
Vacco Industries
Waukesha Bearings
Corporation
Warren Pump
Westinghouse Electric Corp.,
Turbine Division
Worthington Pump
Worthington Compressor
Manufacturers interested in doing business with the U.S. Navy, as
well as those now doing business with the U.S. Navy, can derive impor-
nant benefits from a membership in the MARINE MACHINERY
ASSOCIATION. Complete details regarding benefits and membership
may be obtained by contacting:
THE MARINE MACHINERY ASSOCIATION, Suite 903, 1700 K.
St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006, (202) 293-7169; or Jack Flannigan,
Terry Corporation, Industrial Road, Niantic, CT 06357, (203) 739-6271.
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