More on research and development and design establishments

Shipbuilding is one of the most important Russian industries. In Russia, its development as a knowledge-intensive industry directly depends on effort intensification and joining all the intellectual resources of the country (research and development and design establishments, engineering bureau, trade educational institutions, etc.).

War Shipbuilding

A number of organizations engaged in war shipbuilding research substantiate some tasks related to war and auxiliary ship design and construction from scientific point of view. Formulated principles and approaches to determination of prospective lines of development for various ship ensured elaboration of different methods and criteria. They are used to state requirements to promising ships and certain engineering solutions as well as determine lines of development for high-end technologies.

Current Situation and Prospects

In order to eliminate the lag between the Russian shipbuilding industry and its foreign competitors in the area of transport vessel operational performance and design periods, it is important to provide gaining knowledge, introducing innovations and new industrial engineering techniques with the use of new information technologies.

Various shipbuilders’ workshop conferences join intellectual assets of field research and development and design establishments and bureau with processing capabilities of industrial institutions.

Scientific and technological potential of research institutes help to solve the majority of shipbuilding problems related to research, design and construction of ships and other complex marine facilities as well as to determination prospective development options for the domestic shipbuilding.

State scientific centers and research institutes of our country take an active part in fulfillment of challenges set by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation as well as in implementation of federal target, international, presidential, field technological programs and large investment projects. They comprise a number of laboratories equipped with state-of-the-art equipment and tools. Some of them have their own experimental capabilities ensuring investigating in the majority of fields related to complex marine facility design (reservoirs, cavitation, hydrodynamic and aerodynamic tunnels, test beds, and so on).

Russian intelligent potential provides high-level and effective research and engineering efforts in various fields of the shipbuilding. The industry features with qualified specialists, unrivalled expertise of challenge solving. Innovative approach determines line of institute activities (experimentation – know-how – project – final product). Besides, in addition to design of ships and various marine constructions and facilities, design institutions can perform designer’s inspection of their construction.

Accumulated scientific potential ensures completion of custom-sized ship and vessel design orders and development of generic lines in the shipbuilding.