Big ship on floating dry dock in shipyard . located at Port Klang , Malaysia
adopting new SBSR technologies ’. Currently , most of the vessel designs used for new builds in Malaysia are imported from other countries . This seriously impedes the development of technology locally and sidelines research and activities from the global mainstream technology and knowledge development .
Anchoring this technological capability is the ability to develop a product . This must be the fundamental target : the ability to design a specific ship for a particular purpose . Design capability must be acquired by doing . Only then the ability to create , evolve and innovate a myriad series of ship designs can be realised . The ability to build them would be an advantage and supporting this through developing local equipment would almost definitely create a sustainable marine industry .
Currently the designs are being monopolised by big international corporations that have garnered tremendous knowledge and have finetuned practices over years of development . Competing with these giants seems a gargantuan effort . The designs they bring into the country capture a huge amount of monetary benefits , depriving the local industry . The designs brought in usually package together a whole series of associated foreign equipment and technical services and , more detrimentally , the mental dependence and the waiving of the national drive to creativity and innovativeness . Henceforth , maintaining the current status quo of dependence on foreign design will ultimately unleash a situation of uncompromising misfortunes for the local players and for the economic prosperity of the nation .
DESIGN
Expounding on this , design within the general understanding would simply mean the ability to develop a product that will fulfill the requirements , whether it is a derived need or a projected need . In this simple understanding , design does not project a scheme of organised sequence of intellectual events . After all within this connotation the design of a shoe is no less difficult than designing a complete battleship . However , the reality of design , when projected over a variety of
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