Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY) co-hosted its first Expertise Showcase for contractors and civilians from Could 10-11 with the Nationwide Heart for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS).
The 2-day occasion hosted greater than 60 distributors and supplied a possibility for waterfront staff to see probably 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 services, and cutting-edge expertise and tools that may be well leveraged into our day-to-day work,” mentioned Shipyard Commander Captain Dianna Wolfson on the occasion’s kickoff. “The following two days provide an thrilling glimpse into our future, with prospects of utilizing extra superior expertise to fulfill 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 said, “The Innovation Program management was targeted on figuring out and transitioning confirmed applied sciences into the shipyard that might 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; vitality, environmental, well being and security; enterprise expertise and analytics; superior additive manufacturing; coaching, and enhanced inspection programs.
“This interplay is vital for these doing the work to speak their present challenges and stress the options supplied by the distributors towards their actual world experiences,” said Thomas Staskin, Shipyard Enterprise Course of Guide Lead. “We really feel these dialogues will information the distributors to focus their efforts in areas that may actually 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 fact is that this offers us the prospect to shut the hole between what the federal government has accessible for us versus what the skin business can provide,” 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 crew and plan to go to future Expertise Showcases at NNSY.
“It’s good to be on the Expertise Showcase and interact with distributors which can be very a lot on the entrance fringe of shipbuilding expertise,” mentioned Buie. “It’s refreshing to see the varied views on the services which can be accessible to our business.”
The distributors loved participating with NNSY staff 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,” said 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 may assist our workforce to do their jobs safer and sooner.”
Herrin additional said, “General, I imagine there was worth added to this expertise showcase and as with all the things we should always do as NNSY, it’s going to repeatedly enhance.”
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