At present, the three big companies are all together, and the crisis of the shipbuilding industry is so severe that they are doing a good job retirement. Again, I have been receiving orders for the offshore platform. I have lost my engineering skills and lost a lot of money. Suddenly the shale oil blew up, and the oil prices became so bad that the shipowners refused delivery. Two things are the main cause of the crisis.
Are Korean shipyards lacking in engineering capacity?
In the press, reporters do not know well. They say 'lack of engineering competence', and outside the industry, 'Korea can not do this because it does not have technology! What did you do! ' I have a lot to say. From the bottom line, Korean engineers do not have any technical skills at all. Scientific skills are pretty good. But this is the same with China. It's been a long time since this field has been pioneered, and it's okay to say that most of the things in school are actually over. Nevertheless, there is a shortage of engineering competence, which has a problem of design philosophy and another one that does not know the system well.
Problems of Design Philosophy
The Korean shipyard has a remarkable skill in the field of shipbuilding, that is, the ship-making industry. The know-how to some extent, if there are about two to three agents, tanker and container ship "basic design" is enough to get enough. The detailed design is in fact a low level of technology required to outsource. In fact, Korean shipbuilders' marine engineering capacity is quite high. By the way, I think that the technical philosophy of the merchant who climbed up to the limit has somehow made more profits, and the design philosophy has been adjusted to cost reduction. And it's been a long time since. The problem is applying a three-dimensional design philosophy to projects such as plotters and jack-ups that you do not know well.
It is important to design the plotter project with enough margins in preparation for the design change in the initial design. Something keeps changing in the middle. Initially
'Oh, I'll put 40,000 tons on the deck, and the maximum allowable acceleration is about 0.15 g'.
'Hey, it's got a little problem and I have to add some extra equipment, and then the weight will increase to 50,000 tons and the allowable acceleration will be reduced to 0.12g' ... the same thing happens often.
However, it is incredibly difficult to go back and change the basic design. If you have already cut the iron plate, you may have to shave a certain level.
Here is a design philosophy that puts cost reduction first. In the shipyard, we had to buy too much valve in the piping system, so we changed it to a manifold (see below for a manifold) and changed the valve a little less so that it was replaced by a small design change. I have a word.
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We watched the recall of a Toyota vehicle as to what the extreme cost savings would bring. Nevertheless, domestic shipyards are repeating the same mistake.
Why is this happening?
The dockyards were pulling their manpower out of the boom in the shipbuilding market in 2006-2008. So I made a lot of money. At that time, when the marine project competition was in the pipeline, there were not many visible results in the marine project (I think it was since 2011), and I know that the deficits were enough to cover the merchant ships. However, as the shipbuilding boom began to slow down around 2010, and the large shipyards had somehow to spare the remaining equipment and manpower. So I do not wind up at the shipyard, I do not know how to do the ocean project to engineering, and I received an order for it. It's one or two times, but since competition is starting to take off, "Oh, we've done a couple of things. I guess that's why I've been ordering things with my mouth. It's a shale oil gun.
Where do you come from convincing yourself that you can lower your costs?
I think it is very likely that they benchmarked shipyards specialized in offshore projects in Singapore, South China, and Southeast Asia. They are mainly people who convert old merchant ships into marine energy-related vessels. There is an expectation that it will take a certain period of time and that it will be received for some time. 'What can not we do?' I brought it with me. I only saw other menus that develop menus every day, but they also listened to my menu as they are. The customer said, 'I do not like this, I do not like that.' If you do not know if you cook it, then you have to throw it all away (= after you have a design margin) and then you have to cook either soy sauce or salt, and I went with the perfect liver for your thoughts. It is similar to what came. I might be a little bit confused to hear a parable, but please understand this.
Problems that do not know the system well
In Korea, the marine project related structures are generally drilling (drill ship, semi-sub, jack-up, etc.) or production (semi-sub, TLP, FPSO) drilling holes in the floor. Relatively, I raised it. It's about a mud of fluid associated with drilling holes in the ground. Let's talk about the drilling mud, because the information article will come out as a series. The production facility is a facility that refines oil, water, sand and all kinds of impurities in the basement when it comes up with 'crude oil'. But there are not many people who know this properly in the shipyard and most of them know the know- People who know the characteristics of facilities are rare. I do not know if the cost-oriented design philosophy mentioned here is interrupted.
So you can not go to Chosun now?
I think that maybe the lunch buffets and the school carnivorous will be the most curious. My answer is 'If you want to go ... I will not starve to death'. About 2000 years ago, a venture boom started. At that time, those who went to Chosun and graduated graduated in 2006-7, including the army. They worked happily with the pouring volume and the high profit rate, and also managed to get the bonus. I would go to Chosun in 2000, and then I would say that I am going to the labor-intensive traditional industry for the whole world to return to IT. When you go into college, there is no guarantee that a good industry will work well when you graduate, and there is no guarantee that your industry will be open until graduation.
Industries that can not go to work are 'industries that do not look strange because they advertise that they will go well over 10 years'. For example, a medical device a few years ago, when you go to the department of medical equipment, people with "doctor's qualifications and physics / doctoral degrees at the same time" are being treated, and this also happens. It is almost impossible to learn about a MRI-complicated machine at a bachelor's degree or master's degree and to develop it against the current patent. It is a simple story to think about who will be better if you compare with those who have taught you to take a professor who may not have been able to say where it was proved to be people who have been researching and experimenting continuously in the related industry.
Shipbuilding is a long-established discipline, and it is still far from overtaking the world's trade volume by air. Because the production area of many goods needed for a person to live is far from the consumption area, the marine logistics which is a big ship for logistics, and the shipbuilding engineering that supports it will survive for a long time. No matter how the Japanese shipwreck is destroyed, engineers still live on the whole world, eating and living somehow. Instead, it will be difficult to reproduce the glory of 2007-2009, and it will not be a problem to just eat.
