General concepts of shipbuilding

Shipbuilding technology studies the essence of the production processes of ship construction, the relationship of these processes and the laws of their development. It is based on such fundamental sciences as mathematics, mechanics, physics, chemistry and interacts with a wide range of applied sciences related to ship creation: ship design, ship theory, ship hull strength, shipbuilding economics and others.

Shipbuilding Technology Subject

For many years, shipbuilding technology has been understood as a set of production processes for ship construction: receipt and processing of materials, assembly and welding of hull structures and the hull as a whole, installation of mechanisms and electrical equipment, manufacture and installation of systems and devices, equipment and decoration of ship premises, cruise ship design, testing and delivery of a finished ship to the customer. Then the concept of technology expanded significantly and, in addition to production processes, included the study and creation of technical means, the study of technical, raw materials, information, financial and human resources, management systems, social and natural environment, within which the production process is implemented, including its environmental consequences.

In the last decades of the XX century, the following directions of development of shipbuilding technology have developed:

• Improvement of existing and development of new methods of building ships, including those based on the modular principle, in which it is possible to assemble ships from a limited number of unified primary elements-modules;
• Application of mathematical methods and computer technology in the technological preparation of production and control of technological processes;
• Mechanization and automation of production processes, including the use of industrial robots, robotic technological complexes, etc;
• Development of fundamentally new technological processes using the action of lasers and plasma, more technologically advanced materials, high-performance equipment, including numerical control, high-precision measuring instruments;
• Saving material, energy, labor, financial and other resources when creating ships;
• Creation of safe working conditions and environmentally friendly shipbuilding processes.