Consensus QA/QC Acceptance Standards Task S-31 of the Ship Producibility Research Program

You are here: Homepage > Search

Consensus QA/QC Acceptance Standards Task S-31 of the Ship Producibility Research Program

This project was designed to identify areas where the development of consistent quality assurance/quality Control (QA/QC) acceptance standards can benefit the U.S. commercial shipbuilding industry by reducing ship construction, overhaul, and repair costs and improving efficiency. The need for standards in this area may be the result of external experience (reaching agreement with customers and regulatory agencies) or internal experience (communicating requirements from shipyard design departments to waterfront personnel). Past experience has defined a need to examine various QA/QC acceptance criteria used in shipbuilding to determine current practice and establish in which areas the development of industry-wide standards of performance is most needed. This project is part of a much broader effort develop and implement a National Shipbuilding Standards Program under the direction of SNAME Panel SP-6 as part of the Ship Producibility Research Program. This project was limited in scope to commercial shipbuilding, overhaul, and repair; Naval shipbuilding use not included. It was not intended to survey every shipyard involved in commercial shipbuilding, but rather to gain a representative cross-section consensus of the need for QA/QC acceptance criteria. This effort did not include the development of actual standards.