2003 World Maritime
Technology Conference
Optimization - Horses
For Courses
Dogs For Ducks?
uDo Synthesis Studies
uDo Point Designs
•Validate Specs
•Validate System
Design
uAvoid “Off the Shelf”
•Rarely Optimum
•Source Of Risk
•“Just A Few Minor Changes”
•No Real Advantage
•No “Ferries ‘R Us”
•Design Small Fraction
Of Cost (CAE / CAM)
“The many breeds of domestic dogs are certainly Man’s
oldest, if not Man’s best, example of optimized design for task and
environment”