Abstract
The focus of this research has been producibility improvement in small shipyards. Producibility is here taken to mean ease and economy of manufacture—the balancing of technical considerations with those affecting a product's manufacture. Drawing from the well-developed ideas of group technology shipbuilding as they are currently applied in the world's most productive large shipyards, product-oriented work break-down structures (PWBS) for two small steel ships to be built in small shipyards have been developed. These work breakdown structures provide the basis for the small ship generic PWBS presented here. As part of this work a 3D surface computer model and a hypertext document were created in order to illustrate certain group technology shipbuilding principles.
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