Overview and challenges of shipbuilding

• Introductive lecture

• Shipyard technology level

Shipyard and Shipbuilding Equipments

• Shipyard layouts and overall material flow

• A virtual visit: Steel stockyard, Cutting shop, Forming, Panel Line, Assembly shop, Drydock, Outfitting shop

• Advanced Facilities and Equipments in Shipyard: NC Cutting Machine, Laser Welding Machine and Robotics

Computer aided ship design and Construction

• Overview of Shipbuilding, From Design to Construction, Concept of CIM, Product Model

• Distinctive Method in Ship Design1: Dividing Construction Block, Welding Design

• Distinctive Method in Ship Design2: Shell Expansion Method and Forming Curved Shell

• A brainstorm on efficiently planning the construction of a ship - A semi interactive lecture

• CAD/CAE/CAM: Hardware and Software

• Discrete Event Simulation, Stochastic processes, Virtual shipyard

Hull materials and metal manufacturing

• Metal Processes: Cutting, Forming, Welding, Soldering and Brazing, Distortion Removal, etc.

• What is Hull Materials (Steel, Aluminium, FRPs)

Classification of Ship, Quality of Ship

• • Quality Assurance: Steel Quality Assurance, Outfit Quality Assurance, Test and Trials, Certificates

Project and shipbuilding management

• Systems Engineering, Product Work Breakdown Structure, PERT/CPM

• Application or exercice of project management

Work Design in Shipbuilding

• Industrial Engineering, Work Observation and Work Safety Design

Management and production theory applied to shipbuilding

• Group Technology, Toyota Production System

• Just-In-Time, Kanban, Theory of Constraints

Planning, Scheduling, and Production Control

• Production flow, Shipyard Planning and Scheduling Overview (Long term, Middle term, Monthly, Weekly, Daily)

• Accuracy Control and Management: Introduction, statistic, planning, self check, when and what to check, standard, shrinkage allowance, etc.

• Scheduling optimization

Industry 4.0 - the fourth industrial revolution

• Production control and production monitoring systems

• Big Data: an infinite source of knowledge - IoT

• Data mining to get efficient construction