This presupposes high investment in cost as well as time for doing research. It is also necessary to take into account that innovations are, in some cases, reasonable easy to copy. But these suggestions do not take into account the huge influence of planing in the whole process of building a ship. The potential of improving the planing and organizing process throughout the whole shipbuilding process using the existing facilities, such as cranes, docks and welding robots has to be used in the future. Therefore in the future a special interest in studies in ship production should be on methods, processes and facilities to handle the production of ships to achieve an optimal result to meet the requirements outlined above.
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