Thomas Lamb

nalambResearch Scientist Emeritus and Adjunct Professor

E-mail: nalamb@umich.edu

B.Sc.Hons. University of Durham, 1958; Naval Architecture
M.B.A. Tulane University, 1990
P.E. Wisconsin, & Washington; British Chartered Engineer; Registered European Engineer

  • Research Interests
  • Sponsored Research
  • Selected Publications
  • Courses Taught
  • Design / production integration;
  • design for production;
  • systems and concurrent engineering;
  • ship design and economic modeling;
  • ship costing modeling and application of modern management methods to shipbuilding

  • “Build Strategy Development,” National Shipbuilding Research Program.
  • “Requirements and Assessments for Global Shipbuilding Competitiveness,” National Shipbuilding Research Program.
  • “Concurrent Engineering Application and Implementation in U.S. Shipbuilding,” National Shipbuilding Research Program.
  • “Agile Competitiveness in Shipbuilding,” ARPA/Lehigh University Program.
  • “Stern Factory Design,” McDermott Shipbuilding, Inc. in support of ARPA’s Maritech Program.
  • “PODAC Cost Model Development,” NSWC, Carderock, Maryland.
  • “Generic Build Strategy,” NSWC, Carderock, Maryland.
  • “Product-Oriented Work Breakdown Structure,” NSWC, Carderock, Maryland.
  • “Productivity Metric for Shipbuilding,” NAVSEA. “Productivity Metric for Naval Ship,” NAVSEA.

Refereed Proceedings or Journals

  • “Organization Theory and Shipbuilding – A brief Overview.” Presented to Gulf Section of SNAME, April, 1991. (MARINE TECHNOLOGY, April, 1992)
  • “Shell Plate Development – Is there a problem or not?” Presented to the 1993 NSRP Symposium, Williamsburg, Virginia.
  • “Technology Survey of U.S. Shipyards – 1994.” Presented to the 1995 SHIP PRODUCTION SYMPOSIUM, Seattle, Washington. Co-authored with Dr. R. L. Storch and J. Clark
  • “Build Strategy Development.” Presented to the 1995 SHIP PRODUCTION SYMPOSIUM, Seattle, Washington. Co-authored with J. Clark.
  • “The Development and Implementation Technology in the Shipbuilding Industry.” Presented to the 1995 SNAME Annual Meeting, Washington DC. Co-authored with Andrew Alan.
  • “Concurrent Engineering: Application and Implementation for U.S. Shipbuilding.” Presented to the 1995 SHIP PRODUCTION SYMPOSIUM, Seattle, Washington. Co-authored with J. Bennett.
  • “CE or not CE. That is the Question.” Presented to the 1997, SHIP PRODUCTION SYMPOSIUM, New Orleans, La.
  • “Naval Ship Compensation Coefficients.” Presented at 1999 Ship Production Symposium, Arlington, VA., July 29, 1999.
  • “A Generic Shipbuilding Computer Model,” Co-authored with J.G. Shin and H. Chung, Journal of Ship Production, November, 2000.
  • “A Shipbuilding Productivity Predictor,” Co-authored with A. Hellesoy, To be presented at 2001 Ship Production Symposium, Ypsilanti, MI June 2001.
  • “Lean Shipbuilding,” Co-authored with Dr. J. Liker, To be presented at 2001 Ship Production Symposium, Ypsilanti, MI June 2001.
  • “World-class Shipbuilders: Their Productivity and and Use of Lean
  • Manufacturing,” SNAME Transactions, 2001.

Non-refereed Publications

  • “Design for Production in Basic Design.” Presented to the 1986 SNAME Spring Meeting, Portland, Oregan. Received Spring Meeting Best Paper Award.
  • “Engineering for Ship Production.” Presented to the 1986 NSRP Technical Syposium, Williamsburg, Virginia.
  • “A Productivity and Technology Metric for Shipbuilding.” Presented to the SNAME Great Lakes and Great Rivers Section Meeting, January 1998, Cleveland, Ohio.
  • “A Ship Design Economic Synthesis Program.” Presented to the SNAME Great lakes and Great Rivers Section Meeting, January 1998, Cleveland, Ohio. Co-authored with H. S. Choung and J. Singhal.
  • “Research Advances in Marine Design Concepts – System Design.” Opening lecture WEGEMT Association 27th School, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, September 7-12, 1998.
  • “A Trade-off Analysis Tool for Ship Designers.” Presented to the David Taylor Centennial Symposium, Arlington, VA., September 18, 1998.
  • “Computer Assisted Shipbuilding Policy Development.” Presented to the David Taylor Centennial Symposium, Arlington, VA., September 18, 1998.

Reports and Books

Book ENGINEERING FOR SHIP PRODUCTION, 1986
SP-4 Panel Project Report LIMITATIONS OF COMPUTERIZED LOFTING FOR SHELL PLATE DEVELOPMENT, 1994
SP-4 Panel Project Report BUILD STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT, 1994
SP-8 Panel Project A PRIMER ON CONCURRENT ENGINEERING, 1994
PODAC PWBS SELF TRAINING MANUAL, 1997
OBSERVATIONS ON EUROPEAN AND ASIAN SHIPBUILDING – BASED ON VISITS TO EUROPEAN AND ASIAN SHIPYARDS, July 1, 1998 to June 30, 1999
ONR VISIT TO JAPANESE AND KOREAN SHIPYARDS, May 24 to 28, 1999
SUMMARY OF SHIPYARD PRODUCTIVITY RECOMMENDATIONS AND IMPLEMENTATION RESULTS, March 6, 2000
  • NA 276 Introduction to Marine Manufacturing
  • NA 475 Marine Design Team Project
  • NA 562 Concurrent Marine Design Management
  • NA 579 Concurrent Marine Design Team Project