SBIR/STTR Research Award
Automated Planning and Design for Producability and Maintainability
Award amount
$449,993Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
2002Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Defense
- Branch
- Navy
- Recipient company
- INDUSTRIAL PLANNING TECHNOLOGY, INC.
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
"Ship construction represents one of the more challenging planning problems in industry today. The purpose of this proposal is to reduce ship construction and operation costs by making optimal use of available automated fabrication facilities and designingfor maintainability. An efficient algorithm for solving this class of problem has been discovered and its feasibility has been validated in Phase I. A working system for automatic ship construction planning will be developed in Phase II, as a plug-in forcommercial CAD, scheduling and ERP systems.BENEFITS: Anticipated savings are $160 million per year in construction costs and $1 million per year in planning costs for U.S. shipyards."
Technology keywords
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