Knowledge and understanding: At the end of the course, the student will have to know the significant phases of the ship's life cycle, the sequences and the actors involved in the development of the design, also paying attention to the connections and controls necessary for each phase change in the process, organizational processes, production, planning and production control and the technologies involved, the concepts of economic management of production, quality and continuous improvement, the operational context of a shipyard in terms of resources, professionalism, industrial relations . They will also have to know how to evaluate and investigate the areas of greatest risk that arise in the development of the process and therefore draw hypotheses that limit the undesirable effects.
Knowledge and understanding skills applied: At the end of the course, the student will have acquired useful elements for understanding the technological, production and management processes of a shipyard. He will therefore have viewed the broad spectrum of relationships linked to the process of acquiring a ship and will be able to identify with which quality of skills he will be able to establish his real strength of belonging to the chain of participants in the same.
Making judgments: The acquired knowledge will give a clearer ability to evaluate both the risk that arises during a technical "negotiation", and the operational context of a shipyard with respect to reference indexes/benchmarks.
Communication skills: The student is required to know how to connect the roles, skills and limits of each position that participates in the development of the naval acquisition process with a clear and concise interview. The student must therefore be able to report with proper language on aspects concerning the production activity of a shipyard and must be able to present this knowledge in a clear and concise manner.
Ability to learn: The complexity of the subject allows the student to deal with issues that are the basis for a sufficient vision of the connections that develop in the world of work where, of course, the quality of information - both received and transmitted - is essential for the success of the whole process.

Basic knowledge: naval architecture, ship construction, marine engineering, marine outfitting, naval electrical installations, elements of economics and business organization

The acquisition process of a ship is a long, articulated and complex path which starts from considerations of economic nature linked to the activity of the shipowners, passes through the design phase which calls for collaboration within almost all engineering disciplines and concludes with the production of the ship. In particular, the "Ship Production" course starts from the process that engineering follows to define a ship up to the delivery of the correct information, in terms of quality and timing, to those responsible for making the product. The different phases in which the process is declined, amplitudes, complexities, sequences and actors are identified. Subsequently, the technical-operational activities and managerial responsibilities characterizing the role of the production engineer are described as required in shipbuilding and ship repair yards and which use complex and advanced organisations, processes and technologies in a highly competitive context.

Textbook provided by the teacher

Thomas Lamb “Ship Design and Construction” – ed. SNAME

Richard Lee Storch, Colin P. Hammon, Howard McRaven Bunch, and Richard C. Moore “Ship Production” – ed. SNAME

Thomas Lamb “Engineering for Ship Production” – ed. SNAME

1. Commercial and marketing activity
2. The definition of the contract and of the contractual technical specification
3. The development phases of the naval design process (risks and relationships)
4. The role of suppliers
5. Purchase methodologies
6. Time and cost quality control
7. Relations with Shipowners, Suppliers, Authorities
8. Shipbuilding and the sea economy
9. The organizational structure of a shipbuilding company
10. The life cycle of the ship
11. The manufacturing process
12. Planning, scheduling and control of construction activities
13. Plants and technologies
14. Elements of the economic management of the construction site
15. The economic management of the order
16. Quality and continuous improvement
17. Safety, environment and health
18. Industrial relations

Lectures with use of multimedia material.

All material available in Moodle2 http://moodle2.units.it

Oral examination on:
- two questions regarding the program in the classroom (Knowledge and understanding).
- solution of a practical problem related to the management of the ship acquisition process or the organization of production in a shipyard according to the guidelines learned in class and using IT tools used during the exercises (Applied knowledge and understanding). In the presentation, the student will have to justify the choices made independently (Autonomy of judgment and communication skills).

This course explores topics closely related to one or more goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (SDGs) (9)