HE00625 - User Feedback in Ship Design

In the design, construction and management of ships, there appear to be few opportunities for communication between the designers, and the users.

Ships are often large, complex single entities, including hundreds of technical sub-systems and components from a variety of sources. The designers and providers of large ships do not usually have the advantages of volume production industries where considerable resources can be devoted to prototyping and testing the completed assembly before commitment is made to final production.