ON LINE SHIP PRODUCTION CONTROL SYSTEMS

The application of on-line computing techniques to problems of production control in shipyards is considered in the light of experience which has been gained in two areas. The first is the problem which management has in forecasting the utilization of resources and the resulting financial implications of alternative orderbook scenarios in new building. The use of data available at the tendering stage and its interpretation with standard library data as input to an on-line computer is described. Methods of interrogation to investigate the effects of cost increases, productivity changes and labor availability are set out. The second is the use of methods by which the supply and installation of outfit material can be coordinated by means of an on-line information system. The system connects the activities of the technical, production engineering, purchasing, stores, scheduling, manufacturing and installation departments. Current developments concerned with applying similar techniques to the problems of control and billing in ship repair are also described.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Preprint from ICCAS 79, June 1979. (The complete set of preprints for ICCAS 79 can be ordered from Elsevier North-Holland, Inc., 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY, 10017, as "Computer Applications in the Automation of Shipyard Operation and Ship Design III." Price: $73.25.)
• Corporate Authors:

  IIT Research Institute

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  Chicago, IL  United States  60616

  American Society of Mechanical Engineers

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  New York, NY  United States  10016-5990
• Authors:
  • Devenport, T
  • Smith, R
• Publication Date: 1979

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 227-234
• Serial:
  • Publication of: IIT Research Institute
  • Publisher: IIT Research Institute

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Control systems; Information management; Information processing; Information systems; Management; Planning; Production; Production control; Repairing; Ship outfitting; Ships; Shipyards
• Uncontrolled Terms: Computer systems; Ship repair
• Old TRIS Terms: Shipyard information systems; Shipyard management
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Data and Information Technology; Marine Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00311595
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: MPC-11
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 9 1980 12:00AM