Traditional OUTFITTING VS Current OUTFITTING on Ships

1. Introduction If shipyards wish to become successful and competitive in the world shipbuilding market, they have to build quality ships along with decreasing costs of the production process and shortening of delivery time of the ship. hortening the time of the shipbuilding process by using the modular outfitting concept is one way of reducing total ship production time, thus improving efficiency and cost performance. Advanced outfitting may be regarded as fitting to the ship structure, before and after erection, on the building berth, of outfit items as a significantly early time in the building sequence. The concept can be categorised into three types, namely: on unit on block on board (either on berth or afloat). Hot outfitting, such as welding work, takes place before the ship is painted. Cold outfitting is the addition of parts after the ship is painted. 2. Outfitting A. Traditional Practice ...