By Wang Sun

Militar y-civilian integration slated to boost ship assembly construction quality management

By Wang Sun

Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding (Group) Co Ltd has over recent years been actively carrying out the State strategy of military and civilian integrated development. Oriented by market demand, with product as carrier, in line with the corporate production and operation characteristics, Hudong-Zhonghua has consistently pushed ahead "Ship assembly construction quality management with military and civilian integration as core" and practiced all-process application in design, procurement, production and aftersales services.

By implementing ship assembly construction quality management with military and civilian integration as core, new shipbuilding design concepts such as "regional shipbuilding", "3D design", unit modular building and new building technologies including efficient welding are extensively applied in Hudong-Zhonghua ship design and building; SPD ship design software of independent IPRs has consolidated advanced ship design and building technology; the practicing of design goal cost management has effectively improved ship design quality.

By implementing ship assembly construction quality management with military and civilian integration as core, Hudong-Zhonghua has used quality control methods suitable for military ship one-piece and small-batch building and those suitable for civilian ship batch production for mutual reference, solved conflicts of current military equipment batch production without reducing quality requirements and small-batch high-end civilian ships of high quality requirements, resulting in batch delivery of high quality and high reliability ship equipment to the Navy and finding a reliable solution for enterprises to encounter current bad civilian ship market situations.

By implementing ship assembly construction quality management with military and civilian integration as core, Hudong-Zhonghua, intensifying quality informatization construction, quality information data acquisition and analysis have generally achieved informatization, they are more convenient, improvement measures based on quality information data analysis are more concrete and pertinent.

Implementing ship assembly construction quality management with military and civilian integration as core is gradually paying off. As a result, high quality of ship products is ensured, strong guarantee of successful delivery of various products is provided, and great confidence in undertaking new products from the market is increased, thus effectively driving Hudong-Zhonghua product mix adjustment. Over recent years, products the company has delivered include large LNG carriers, large container vessels, container Ro/ Ro ships, chemical tankers, heavy crane ships and other high technology civilian ship products as well as many military products. In comparison with the previous product mix dominated by container ships, oil tankers and bulk carriers, great optimization has been achieved.