Strategic Plan
Joint SNAME-ASNE
Ship Design Committee
5 March 2007
What Direction Should Ship Design Take?
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The Need for a Strategic Plan
Problem Statement
• “Unbudgeted cost growth in shipbuilding
programs has reached an untenable level” –
ASN (RDA)
• “U.S. shipbuilders require greater than twice
the design labor hours and cycle time” – NSRP
Strategic Investment Plan
• “lack of design maturity when introducing new
technologies led to rework, increasing growth in
labor hours” - GAO
Report by RAND for UK MoD
69% due to late product
definition/technical information
Global Shipbuilding Industrial Base
Benchmarking Study
Section 4.2 Priority areas for improvement:
1. Design for production (F7)
2. Production engineering (F6)
7. Dimensional accuracy an QC (F8)
8. Ship design (F1)
10. Steelwork coding system (F4)
14. Outfit production information (F3)
20. Parts listing procedure (F5)
25. Lofting methods (F9)
26. Steelwork production information (F2)
Top 2 and 5 of the top 10 recommendations are in
Design, Engineering and Production Engineering
Ship Designs Starts
2004
X-CRAFT
LHA(R) – FLT 0
DDG 51 Flt IIA
TAKE
CVN 76 MR
LPD 17
LMSR
DD 21
1990
2000
ASDS SSN 774
SSN 23 MMP
SSGN
CVNX
LHD 8
CVN 77 MR DDX
CVN 21
LCS FLT 0 – LM
LCS FLT 0 – GD
MPF Future
T-AOE(X)
T-AGM Replacement
CG(X)
New Programs:
-LCS Flt 1
2010
-LHA(R) Flt 1
-HSS
-JHSV
-NSF AGOR(s)
-Egyptian FMC
-LCAC(x)
SRDRS
1995-2000: Avg 1 New Start /Yr.
2000-2004: Avg 3 New Starts /Yr
Dramatic Increase in Naval Ship Design Workload
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PROCESS
SPECS
TOOLS
STAFF
Design Capability Elements
- Current Status
Ship Design Enterprise Collaboration
• Level I: Capability Planning
– Our community must find a way to work
together to develop a consensus vision of a
national Naval ship design capability
– Consistent metrics of current status and a
roadmap to future capability
– In executable, actionable detail
– Use the common vision to build specific
elements as opportunity presents
Build toward a common vision
rather than building incompatible piece parts
Capability Planning
TOOLS
STAFF
• Standard KSAs for specific
design roles
• Competency Career tracks
• Retain specialist capabilities
• Community metrics similar
to NAVSEA’s Human Capital
Digital Dashboard (HCDD)
SPECS
STAFF
PROCESS
Navy Surface Ship Design Capability
Capability Planning
PROCESS
SPECS
TOOLS
STAFF
Navy Surface Ship Design Capability
Capability Planning
SPECS
• Continue development of ABS
Naval Vessel Rules
• Consensus national ship
specification improvement
program
• Panel projects to upgrade
specific specs
TOOLS
STAFF
SPECS
PROCESS
Navy Surface Ship Design Capability
• Community metrics similar to
NAVSEA’s HCDD
Capability Planning
PROCESS
SPECS
TOOLS
STAFF
Navy Surface Ship Design Capability
Ship Design Enterprise Collaboration
• Level II: Capability Planning
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Capability Development
– Our community should consider a collaborative
effort to select and/or develop design capability
elements identified by the roadmap
– Deal with industry issues as an industry
– Clearinghouse and quality control agent for
sponsors and developers
– Successful collaboration models exist (NSRP,
National Institute of Aerospace (NIA), Center for
Innovation in Ship Design (CISD), etc.)
Ship Design Enterprise Collaboration
• Level III: Capability Planning
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Capability Development
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Design Application
– Our community should consider a national
design team for design prior to detail design
– Long intervals between early stage designs at
individual yards don’t provide the business
case for sustained capability
– Adequate design work nationally to keep
team and individual skills sharp
Challenging times call for radical action
The Strategic Plan
Mission Statement of the Joint SNAME-ASNE
Ship Design Committee
The mission of the Ship Design Committee
is to advance the art, science and
practice of ship design in the
development and construction of
naval ships, commercial ships and
advanced ships and craft, and the multidisciplines allied thereto.
SDC Vision
• SNAME and ASNE will be the organization of
choice for engineers and other professionals in the
Ship Design sector of the marine industry, providing
valuable and relevant services to all its members.
• SNAME and ASNE and its members will be
recognized by their peers as the technical leaders
in the advancement of Ship Design.
• SNAME and ASNE and its members will be
recognized by the public and by governments as
responsible technical authorities and valuable
contributors to society.
SDC Goals
• Enable the global exchange of knowledge and ideas of
shipbuilders, ship design agents, Government agencies,
regulatory and classification bodies, and academia relative to
Ship Design.
• Focus on best practices and new technologies, methods and
tools for a faster and more effective ship development process:
requirements, concepts, design, planning, construction,
validation and operations;
• Enable community connections to become an industryGovernment-academia partnership for the creation of a more
Collaborative Design Environment;
• Encourage and sponsor research and development in Weights
estimating, Stability analyses, Ship Arrangements, and other
Ship Design fields.
• Work to further education in engineering as it relates to Ship
Design.
SDC Objectives
• Ship Design Committee (SDC)
– Entice, educate, and enrich Ship Design engineers to improve
their competence in the field of Naval Architecture.
– Create Naval Architecture and Ship Design text books.
– Improve ties with engineering schools.
– Encourage high school student interest/awareness; potentially
get high school students to become members of ASNE and
SNAME.
– Need to improve quality and editing of SNAME/ASNE Ship
Design publications.
– Foster collaboration with the Product Design & Material
Technologies (PD&MT) Panel under the National Shipbuilding
Research Program (NSRP)
– Provide liaison with the Navy’s Center for Innovation in Ship
Design (CISD)
SNAME-ASNE Ship Design Committee
Panel Structure
Ship Design
Committee-R. Keane,
Ship Design USA,
Vacant, Vice Chair
SD-5 Adv. Ships &
Craft-W.Hockberger
Consultant
SD-9 Com’l.
Ships-T.Keyser
Corps of Engrs
SD-8 Naval Ships
F. Sanchez, JHU
APL
SD-1 Weights-W. Boze, NNS
SD-2 Collaborative Design Environment-J. Weingart, G&C
SD-3 Stability-R. Sonnenschein, MARAD
SD-4 Arrangements-Vacant
SD-10 Hull Form Design, J. Thomas, G&C
Weights Panel, SD-1
• Develop lessons learned from a number of ship designs
with unforeseen increases in weights to help Weight
Engineers obtain consistent and reliable results
• Foster a systems engineering approach for developing
better weight estimating tools for all design phases.
• Provide 3-digit weight reports for existing/past ship
designs
• Provide best practices weight estimating methods and
techniques from other vehicle-centric industries
Collaborative Design
Environment, SD-2
• Keep members abreast of other ship design advances such as
Knowledge Management (KM), Integrated Digital Environments
(IDE), Information Security, Electronic Collaboration, and
Expert System Augmented Ship Design
• Identify the best practices for integration of information
technology and electronic collaboration into Ship Design
• Maintain knowledge base through readily available technical
documents.
• “Harmonize” our databases and put the data on line.
• Provide database of ship design information.
Stability Panel, SD-3
• Serve as focal point for improved understanding of
evolving ship types & hull forms in a dynamic seaway
• Keep members involved in, and informed of, stabilityrelated issues and events
• Promote improved understanding of adequate stability
on the part of ship designers
• Provide, or arrange for providing, expert input on
stability matters to industry and government
• Identify critical gaps in existing body of knowledge, or
need to ensure improved application of existing
knowledge
Ship Arrangements Panel, SD-4
• Develop educational material for Ship Design engineers
and students on the principles of Ship Arrangements
Design
• Facilitate getting to practicing professionals the latest
advances in Multi-objective Design Optimization
(MDO) methods applied to new Ship Arrangements
Design tools
• Identify best practices for including “systems
architecting” topics of requirements & missions
analysis, functional analysis & allocation, and similar
topics in Ship Arrangements Design
Advanced Ships and Craft Panel, SD-5
• Collect, preserve and disseminate information pertaining to
advanced marine vehicles (AMVs), including their
technologies, designs, construction, operation and support
• Provide a preeminent resource of expertise on AMV
technology
• Regularly hold meetings to share information on significant
AMV developments
• Maintain connections and hold joint technical programs with
other groups involved with AMVs
• Initiate Panel involvement when member expertise can
contribute significantly to developing policies and programs
regarding AMVs
• Identify nonmembers with significant AMV knowledge and
expertise and encourage them to join
Forensics Panel, SD-7
• Advance the art and science of marine forensics and enhance the understanding
of recent and historical loss of life and ships at sea
• Establish the new field of marine forensics as a credible process for the
application of engineering and scientific principles to the study of shipwrecks to
determine the causes of the loss of the ship
• Participate in scientific research and exploration to determine the modes of
failure of vessels lost at sea and to gain new insights in how ships sink and the
forces involved
• Develop an overall survey guide of the wreck investigation process and available
case studies and investigation-process papers to introduce the scientific process
for identifying and gathering facts and evidence relating to an incident or casualty
aboard a marine platform
• Identify remedial means to mitigate the likelihood of similar casualty occurrences
• Publish investigative guidelines for assessing a marine incident or casualty as an
aid to the private investigator, the various international classification societies,
the International Maritime Organization (IMO), and the various authorities
having jurisdiction, including the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), the Mineral
Management Service (MMS), the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB),
Transport Canada, and other interested parties
Naval Ships Panel, SD-8
• Advance development of a more effective standard Naval Ship
Design process from requirements determination through delivery
of the lead ship
• Foster continuous improvements through more investment in and
implementation of ship design and engineering technologies
• Provide a forum to discuss community issues and challenges in
order to develop a shared perspective between Government Industry - Academia
• Offer a forum for the transfer of "best practices" and "lessons
learned" between generations of naval ship designers
• Encourage networking amongst Government - Industry Academia ship design engineers and other stakeholders in the
Naval Ship development process
• Promote technical papers and other forms of knowledge exchange
on Naval Ship Design
Commercial Ships Panel, SD-9
• Identify the cost and schedule drivers in ship design
• Determine best practice methods for identifying cost impact of
design changes throughout the design and construction process
• Foster participation from second-tier shipyards
• Establish an annual Ships of the Year Design Awards (commercial
cargo, passenger, inland vessels, offshore structures and others)
• Emphasize ship design education as a key issue
• Identify accelerated knowledge transfer to provide a jump start to
graduates and to cover the experience gap at a faster pace than
would occur through normal work practices
• Participate actively in undergraduate senior engineering design
courses, both teaching and mentoring
• Compare project processes followed for the design and construction
of marine assets, including how front-end design is done, and how
to best pass through the various "decision gates" as design
progresses from concept to realization
Metrics
• Government-Industry-Academia proceeding with
recommendations of SNAME-ASNE SDC
• Number of SNAME Journals publishing Ship
Design papers
• Number of Ship Design standards updated /
developed by SNAME-ASNE Panels
• Shipbuilders better supporting NAVSEA and
SNAME-ASNE and collaborating in developing
Ship Design tools
Obstacles
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Invested interests
Resistance/reluctance to change
Lack of resources
Lack of volunteers
Lack of appreciation of importance of ship design
Shipyards guarding their design advantages/results
Fuzzy interface with ASNE (resolved by Joint Charter)
Ability of NAVSEA technical authorities to participate
Difficulty in clearing naval ship design papers for public
THE WAY AHEAD
• Kick-off the reconstituted, reinvigorated SDC by
organizing and conducting a community-wide Ship
Design Workshop and Conference:
– To develop a state-of-the-art assessment of our national capabilities and
a needs document for a strategic investment plan
– Co-sponsored by SNAME, ASNE, NAVSEA, ONR, NSRP
– Involve SNAME technical committees allied to Ship Design
– Hosted by CISD at NSWC Carderock’s new Conferencing Center
– Prepare business plan to get approval and advance funding
• SDC to serve as multi-disciplinary liaison for
increased collaboration between SNAME’s technical
Committees like STOC, Ship Production (NSRP),
Structures, Hydrodynamics, Machinery, etc.
WHERE WE NEED TO GO
• According to an
old proverb, if
we do not change
our direction, we
might end up
where we are
headed.