Approach to a great new vessel
Alaska Ship & Drydock prefers a design-for-production approach in which the customer, designers and shipyard people work together from the earliest stages. Design for production reveals ways to optimize vessel performance, materials costs, and time-cost to construct. ASD uses a modular building process to achieve time-cost-quality.Vessels are built on land-level berths and rolled into the floating drydock before launch
Newbuild Process
- Contract design and drawings - vessel owner needs and basic vessel parameters
- Estimate, bid, contract
- Preliminary design and engineering for loading, stability, classification review, etc.
- Detailed design and engineering for bills of materials and production support such as cutting orders
- Purchase raw materials and outfitting items
- Fabrication process - cut, form, join to build panels and subassemblies
- Assembly process - build modules, outfit with distributed systems such as piping, electrical, paint
- Erection process - join modules into blocks, complete distributed systems
- Outfitting - add final hull, mechanical, electrical items
- Systems integration and testing
- Final painting
- Roll out and launch for final outfitting, testing, trials
- Followup with warranty work if needed
