Download or read book Define the Impact of Foreign "Metric" Ships on Material and Inventory Control in U.S. Shipyards written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first NSRP Project report to be presented electronically, via NSNET as one of its discussion forums, with direct linkages to and from the Internet. This report will be defined via its major, categories and links listed below. The Project report will be comprised of a brief summary of the project, its benefits and its accomplishments. Followed by a brief discussion of conclusions and recommendations. The main body of the report will be the identification of various metrication relative resources, categorized emphasizing how information is exchanged,with their direct electronic linkages via the Internet. The application of this electronic medium, and such a forum within the NSRP's NSNET, represents a significant strategic technology to support the objective of leapfrogging with technology to gain a global share of the shipbuilding markets. The fear of a negative impact to shipbuilding, material and inventory control due to converting to metrics was found to be quite minimal, once it was realized that the many complexities involved had various timely trade-offs as part of becoming globally competitive. The conversions have since realized to be part of the change to be global, to which U.S. shipbuilding is now committed to. A key requirement became how, what and where could we better define, use and communicate metric material and inventory control information. The optimizing of this information transfer became the focus of this project. We early on saw the potential for the industry and NSRP to utilize electronic medium for its research and communications. Fortunately this project, has benefited with the speed of the recent electronic evolutions, and has been able to publish electronically.