The 2-day occasion hosted greater than 60 distributors and offered a chance for waterfront staff to see essentially the most revolutionary applied sciences of their trades and for shipyard manufacturing administration groups to collaborate with business companions on discussing potential options particular to NNSY.
“Changing into the twenty first century shipyard our Navy wants requires that efficient mixture of environment friendly planning and execution, upgraded amenities, and cutting-edge expertise and gear that may be neatly leveraged into our day-to-day work,” mentioned Shipyard Commander Captain Dianna Wolfson on the occasion’s kickoff. “The subsequent two days supply an thrilling glimpse into our future, with prospects of utilizing extra superior expertise to satisfy our imaginative and prescient.”
Planning for the Expertise Showcase began again in 2019 and culminated right into a profitable occasion at America’s Shipyard.
Dan Adams, Shipyard Command Innovation Program Supervisor acknowledged, “The Innovation Program management was targeted on figuring out and transitioning confirmed applied sciences into the shipyard that may assist the command meet the mission of sustaining, modernizing, and repairing the Navy’s nuclear fleet in a extra environment friendly method.”
Vendor focus areas included: coatings and corrosion prevention; power, environmental, well being and security; enterprise expertise and analytics; superior additive manufacturing; coaching, and enhanced inspection methods.
“This interplay is vital for these doing the work to speak their present challenges and stress the options supplied by the distributors in opposition to their actual world experiences,” acknowledged Thomas Staskin, Shipyard Enterprise Course of Guide Lead. “We really feel these dialogues will information the distributors to focus their efforts in areas that can really make a distinction to our shipyard sooner or later, in addition to establish these applied sciences that appear to be prepared for implementation proper now.”
“The truth is that this offers us the possibility to shut the hole between what the federal government has out there for us versus what the surface business can supply,” mentioned Jason Wills, Code 926 Shipyard Group Superintendent. “This is step one in driving that to completion and we’re very enthusiastic about it.”
Nick Buie, Code 982 Shipyard Utilities Engineer attended with different members of his staff and plan to go to future Expertise Showcases at NNSY.
“It’s good to be on the Expertise Showcase and interact with distributors which might be very a lot on the entrance fringe of shipbuilding expertise,” mentioned Buie. “It’s refreshing to see the assorted views on the services and products which might be out there to our business.”
The distributors loved participating with NNSY workers and sharing the newest shipbuilding applied sciences.
“I spent the primary day going vendor to vendor listening and taking notes of all of the revolutionary applied sciences,” acknowledged Laura Herrin, Code 900, Shipyard Program Supervisor for Course of Enchancment. “For somebody who has been within the shipyard for over 35 years and has labored in a number of codes, I used to be excited to see all the brand new expertise that can assist our workforce to do their jobs safer and quicker.”
Herrin additional acknowledged, “Total, I consider there was worth added to this expertise showcase and as with every part we must always do as NNSY, it would constantly enhance.”
