National Shipbuilding Research Program. Proceedings of the REAPS Technical Symposium. Paper No. 5: The Shipyard Product Information System as an Aid to Implementing More Productive Strategies.

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Proceedings of the REAPS Technical Symposium. Paper No. 5: The Shipyard Product Information System as an Aid to Implementing More Productive Strategies. The REAPS shipyards have recently endorsed the first phase of a long term project to specify, design and implement a Product Information System. It is anticipated that the eventual output of this project will be a photo type information system, consisting of a database and associated utility software, which will be useful to a variety of functions in the yard which record or supply technical and production-oriented product information. While this may sound like a substantial undertaking (and it is) the benefits of the use of such a capability are equally substantial. The purpose of this presentation is to highlight some of the more significant of these benefits. First we need to look at what is meant when we talk about a Product INformation System for shipbuilding. The heart of the system is a logically-structured, product-oriented database which we call the product model. The phrase 'product model' is perhaps a bit of a misnomer because , as we'll see, information about the yard itself is also maintained. In fact the linkage between product and yard facility information in the database is the source of one of the most important benefits of the Product Information system. The product model consists of a set of so-called 'logical models' which represent logically complete database subsets tailored to the needs of specific yard functions.