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SNAME Panel SP-8 Members Survey

NASSCO's Productivity Gains

Recent accomplishments by the industrial engineering staff and

Sheetmetal Department at Na- tional Steel and Shipbuilding Co. (NASSCO) were viewed by Panel

SP-8 of The Society of Naval Ar- chitects and Marine Engineers at the spring industrial engineering meeting held recently in San Diego,

Calif.

NASSCO is one of six U.S. ship- yards currently involved in funded efforts to improve shipyard pro- ductivity under the sponsorship of

Panel SP-8. Publication of the re- sults and cost saving potential de- veloped through these efforts is generally augmented by actual demonstrations, provided in con- junction with regular panel meetings.

Panel SP-8 on Industrial Engi- neering is one of SNAME's nine technical and research panels of the Ship Production Committee.

Panel sponsored projects are funded by the U.S. Maritime Administra- tion and the U.S. Navy on a cost- shared basis with the shipbuilding and ship repair industry.

The objective of SNAME Panel

SP-8 is to assist U.S. shipyards in the development and implementa- tion of an improved industrial en- gineering capability in order to re- duce the time and cost of ship construction and repair.

The present program at NAS-

SCO involves the use of Engi- neered Labor Standards to facili- tate shop loading for the 200 man sheet metal shop. One aspect of the system involves the standard- ization of 14 ventilation duct shapes which has simplified both the de- sign process and the application of engineered labor standards. A re- lated effort by NASSCO's shop planners has been the develop- ment of a Computer Aided Design system which incorporated these standardized shapes.

The 30-member industrial engi- neering panel represents naval and commercial shipyards, Mar-

Ad, the Naval Sea Systems

Command, and the industrial en- gineering profession. Persons in- terested in SNAME Panel SP-8 activities are invited to contact

Panel secretary Joseph R. Phil- lips at (207) 443-3311, ext. 3360.

Durbin-Durco Introduces ^

New Type Of Load Binders —Free Literature Offered

Durbin-Durco, Inc., a St. Louis- based manufacturer of load secu- rity products, recently announced a major design breakthrough in load binders. The binder, devel- oped by the company's engineer- ing department, results in a sig- nificant reduction of time needed to secure a load, and keep it se- cured, during transit.

The new binders, manufactured under the "Adjust-Tight" trade- mark, will be available with a wide range of capacities. Litera- ture is offered describing them.

The "Adjust-Tight" binder com- bines the speed of a lever binder with the flexibility of a ratchet binder, through the incorporation of a threaded barrel. The "Adjust-

Tight" binder user does not have to search for the correct chain link to give him the right "feel" or ten- sion when locking down the han- dle. He grabs the chain once, and twists the barrel one way or the other to set the tension needed.

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Canadian Navy Awards $3.85 Billion, Six Frigate

Contract To Saint John

The Canadian Government has awarded a $3.85-billion contract to

Saint John Shipbuilding & Dry- dock Co., St. John, New Bruns- wick, as prime contractor for the construction of six navy frigates.

Saint John Shipbuilding will col- laborate on the project with Sperry

Inc., a unit of Sperry Corp. The government said three of the ships will be built by Saint John Ship- building and three by Marine In- dustries Ltd., Sorel, Quebec.

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