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List of Processes Used in Marine Workshop of Ships

Workshop technology is essential for planning, constructing, and operating ships and machinery. Some key processes used in marine workshops include welding, brazing, gas cutting, annealing, riveting, lathe practice, drilling, grinding, buffing, tapping, and thread extraction. Welding is used for fabrication and maintenance and involves heating metals and adding a filler material to form a strong joint. Other processes like brazing, gas cutting, and annealing involve heating metals to join, cut, or induce ductility. Machining operations such as lathe practice, drilling, grinding, and buffing are also important for manufacturing, cutting, shaping, and finishing parts.

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List of Processes Used in Marine Workshop of Ships

Workshop technology is essential for planning, constructing, and operating ships and machinery. Some key processes used in marine workshops include welding, brazing, gas cutting, annealing, riveting, lathe practice, drilling, grinding, buffing, tapping, and thread extraction. Welding is used for fabrication and maintenance and involves heating metals and adding a filler material to form a strong joint. Other processes like brazing, gas cutting, and annealing involve heating metals to join, cut, or induce ductility. Machining operations such as lathe practice, drilling, grinding, and buffing are also important for manufacturing, cutting, shaping, and finishing parts.

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List of Processes Used in Marine

Workshop of Ships
Workshop technology is the backbone of any engineering industry and when it comes to
shipping, it becomes the most important aspect which is responsible for planning,
construction and operation of a ship and its machinery. In this article, we will discuss the
most common work shop technology elements which are widely used in shipping
industry, both in ship and on shore.

Any construction and operation of shipping structure or machinery is not possible


without the following workshop practices:

Welding
It is the process by which metals are joined by heating and melting the metals and
simultaneously adding filler material. This forms a weld pool and makes a strong joint
when cooled down. It functions on the principle of coalescence. Welding is widely used
for fabrication and maintenance operations. Different types of welding are electric arc,
laser, electronic beam etc but the most famous out of these is electric arc welding.
Brazing
It is the process of joining metals by heating base metals at a temperature of 800°F
after which a nonferrous filler metal with a melting point well below the base metal is
added to form a strong joint by capillary action. When brazing is done, flux is used as it
prevents the oxide formation while the metal is heated

Gas Cutting
Gas cutting is the process of cutting metals by application of high temperature flame or
torch produced by combination of two gases-oxygen and acetylene. It is the most
common method used on board ship. Other metals cutting procedures are carbon air
cutting, plasma arc cutting etc.

Annealing
It is a heat treatment process done to induce ductility in the metal. Material is heated
above its recrystallization temperature and then it is cooled down which relieves its
internal stresses and refines the structure.

Riveting
It is a process of fastening a metal in another metal by the use of riveting machine and
small cylindrical shaft with head in one end. It is not as strong as annealing and welding
but still comes handy in different parts of the ship.

Lathe Practice
A lathe machine is one of the most important parts of the ship’s workshop as it is used
for various purposes such as manufacturing, cutting, shaping and checking different
spares and parts of the ship.

With number of tools different operation can be performed on lathe like, machining,
surface finishing, thread making, gear making, knurling etc.

Drilling
It is a process of cutting or enlarging a cylindrical hole in a solid material. This is done
by applying a rotational pressure on top of the metal through a strong drill bit.

Drill bit is a drilling tool made up of a higher strength metal like high speed steel or
cobalt steel alloy.

Grinding
This process is used to smoothly cut the metal and to remove edges from the metal. In
this process a grinding machine is used which rotates a highly abrasive grinding wheel
acting as a cutting tool. The grains on the wheel cuts off a piece of metal by shear
deformation.

Buffing
It is the process of cleaning and removing debris and hard deposits like carbon and
sludge from the surface of the metals. A buffing wheel or buffing tool, which is a metal
wire wheel, is attached to a portable hand driven buffing machine or an installed buffing
wheel.

Tapping
It is a process of making threads in a hole of metal. Worn out threads are restructured
by using taps and drills. Tapping tools are used in series to get a perfect thread. The
tools are plug tap, intermediate tap and taper tap.

Thread extraction
It is the process of removing or extracting a broken part of bolt or metal which is
threaded in a hole. Extracting tool is fitted after drilling a hole in the metal or bolt to be
removed. It is a reverse tap and turns the thread in the direction of the drawn pitch.
This is just a brief overview of the main activities that takes place in marine workshop.
The workshop practices used on board ship does not end here. Please add more by
putting in your comments.

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