Marine Technology - January 2009 - Page#36

<BODY> <span id="lblContents">SNAME NEWS Southeast SNAME SE Section Dinner Meeting with Admiral Kramek by Greg Platzer On November 6, the SE section held a well attended dinner meeting hosted at the Overseas Shipholding Group's training facility in Tampa. After a fine catered meal, the attendees were treated to an excellent and informative presentation by Admiral Robert Kramek. In addition, to an esteemed career with the USCG, Admiral Kramek also recently served as President of ABS and as a recent President of SNAME. These distinguished appointments provided the Admiral with a unique perspective which focused on challenges facing classification, maritime industry and technology. Before starting his talk, the outgoing SNAME President provided a synopsis of the recent annual meeting in Houston Texas and highlighted the positive sign for the society of the 200+ student member attendees. Admiral Kramek gratefully acknowledged the numerous student members in this evening's audience. Section News 2009 SNAME News Deadlines Volume 2: February 13, 2009 Volume 3: May 15, 2009 Volume 4: August 13, 2009 Please send all Section News and Student Section News to Fred Goldfarb at fgoldfarb@sname.org his talk by emphasizing the need to be rigorous about safety, security and quality in order to avoid future catastrophes. A lively question and answer period followed the talk, demonstrating the relevance of the admiral's presentation on the day-to-day professional activities of the attendees. Southwest Presentation on a Pipe Shop Management System by Rick Ashcroft The Southwest Section meeting held on September 16, at Fiddler's Green had a presentation on a Pipe Shop Management System by Jeff Schaedig, Industrial Engineering Specialist at GD NASSCO. The objective of this project was to develop an automated planning and control system in the Pipe Shop that enabled the efficient handling of pipe spool fabrication in a flexible manufacturing environment. The solution to improved efficiency in Pipe Shop operations was to implement a pipe spool planning process that had the ability to apply defined rules for pipe part routing and nesting, but could accept late input changes to the work plans to accommodate emerging schedule changes and shop level loading requirements. This process would include a dynamic pipe nesting compo- The admiral spoke openly and informatively about the challenges facing the classification of ships where the time honored approach of designing to empirical formulas was giving way to the necessity of designing to first engineering principals and with complete analysis using the power of today's computing capability. The admiral also spoke of challenges facing the Maritime Industry and Technology where the engineering of larger and novel types of ocean going platforms, together with increasing environmental concerns, required new forms of review to be established. Admiral Kramek spoke of the economic impacts which forced the U.S. Navy to largely abandon its former MilSpec specifications and adapt commercial specifications. The admiral made a strong case to support the IMO (International Maritime Organization) standards. The admiral concluded May 26-27, 2009 SURV 7 - Surveillance, Search and Rescue Craft Poole , UK Contact: conference@rina.org.uk 36 May 26-27, 2009 31st Propulsion & Emissions Conference 2009 Copenhagen , Denmark URL: www.propulsionconference.com</span> <br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.digitalwavepublishing.com/" title="Digital Magazine">Digital Wave Publishing</a> </BODY>