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Lean Design Application in Early-Stage Ship Design
Presentation by Robert Keane, Senior Leader with forty three years of ship design experience
The author and the Bethlehem Fairfield Shipyard were both born in South Baltimore in 1941, a stone’s throw where the author’s father worked for forty three years. The Fairfield Yard was one of several emergency shipyards scattered along the nation’s coasts for World War Two, tasked with constructing the massive “Liberty Fleet”. This talk ties the Fairfield Shipyard story (documented by Joseph Abel’s article) with the author’s six decades plus career in naval ship design and construction, including Senior Executive positions at both Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, and Naval Sea Systems Command, the United States Navy’s engineering headquarters.
Available within 50 miles of Frederick, Maryland or by remote video teleconference. 45 minutes.
Your Speaker
Robert Keane
Robert Keane, principal of Ship Design USA, Inc., has over forty three years of ship design experience, thirty five years of which were in technical leadership positions at the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA).
During twenty one years as a member of the Federal Senior Executive Service (SES), he served in senior leadership positions as the U.S. Navy’s Chief Naval Architect, Chief of Ship Design, Director of Ship Survivability & Technical Authority for Total Ship System Engineering (TSSE).
In his last position at NAVSEA before retiring in 2002, he was the Executive Director for Surface Ship Design and Systems Engineering. In this position, he was responsible for the design of all Navy surface ships & craft from pre-acquisition concept design studies, through Analyses of Alternatives (AoA), preliminary & contract design, detail design & construction, & in-service support. His Navy-led design teams successfully completed over thirty five major naval ship contract designs.