This paper describes how a formal manufacturing environment, as defined by the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS), compares with modern shipbuilding techniques. Formal manufacturing, through a product-based build strategy, provides a framework for integrating contract scheduling, design development, material purchasing, inventory control, production capacity planning, and production control. An understanding of formal manufacturing provides a foundation for understanding modern shipbuilding techniques.

Keywords:
marine transportation, Manufacturing Approach, Implementation, planning & scheduling, Artificial Intelligence, information, operation, quantity, national shipbuilding research program, nsrp model
Subjects:
Artificial intelligence, Information Management and Systems
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1989. The Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
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