to the builders for comments the Classes make on drawings submitted by the builder for approval.
5) But what is most important will be to have network and data base, to know instantaneously what is happening on each ship all over the world.
III. Conclusion
The author looked over the position of maritime transportation industries and pointed out that;
1) These industries are not very large industries compared with other mega industries. And also they do not grow so rapidly. Still leadership to unite effort to improve situation is lacked.
2) It is suggested that value of transportation is reviewed, through which something may be found as what we have to do.
Then the author tried to make suggestions on innovations.
1) He pointed out the targets will be Reliability/ Availability/ Maintainability, Life Time Cost and Safety/ Environment.
2) Action to achieve targets is pointed out to lie with System Approach and Information Technology.
3) Present Japanese R&D framework is reviewed and it is proposed to learn from aviation industries. The learnt results may also require improvement in the field of Classification Societies' activity.
The author regrets what he has reviewed and suggested is only a very broad outline and includes few achievable concrete countermeasures, and may be difficult to practically produce results. But he likes the audience to understand what he wished the most was to appeal necessity of OVER ALL and SYSTEM APPROACH.
The author referred to the figures from The Proceedings of CALS Expo International 1997 and The Committee Report of The Investigation on Maritime Future Technology, The Society of Naval Architects of Japan. He would express his gratitude for their cooperation.
