Louis Daniel Chirillo

摘要

As I mourn the recent loss of one of the titans of our industry, Ron Kiss, I remember another of my heroes who passed last year, Commander Louis Daniel Chirillo, USN, Ret. Many of us know Lou Chirillo as one of the fathers of modern shipbuilding in the United States, laying the foundation for the way we build ships today based on his seminal writings. These include Outfit Planning, Product Work Breakdown Structure; Integrated Hull Construction, Outfitting and Painting, Process Analysis Via Accuracy Control; Line Heating and Design for Zone Outfitting. But did you know that, during his service as a merchant marine and an engineering officer in the United States Navy, and before his well-known efforts promoting efficient shipbuilding, he was involved in the ship repair and maintenance world?