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Published: 1979

Total Pages: 27

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Proceedings of the REAPS Technical Symposium. Paper No. 22: Design for Production. The traditional role of the Ship Designer is the preparation of an overall design of vessel which will have a performance satisfying the owner's Statement of Requirements. The concept of Design for Production, however, requires that, in satisfying the Statement of Requirement, the Ship Designer should also give attention to ease of production. This suggests, therefore, two aspects of the overall design, namely: design for performance design for production and there are others, not considered here, such as design for repair and maintenance, and ergonomic design. Clearly, there will be areas of inter-action and the role of the Ship Designer could be seen in this context as one of arbiter, having the ultimate responsibility of deciding whether performance or production considerations should take precedence in any particular case or the nature of the compromise to be reached. Many of the procedures necessary involve consideration of every feature of the ship from the overall viewpoint. Any tendency to divide design into the traditional elements of steelwork, outfit, engineering and piping would provide a totally inadequate basis upon which to base effective Design for Production.