IN PLANT TRAINING

REPORT

COCHIN SHIPYARD LTD.

Submitted by,
Gautham Sarang (RSET)
Mathew Jose (RSET)

ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Firstly I wish to express my gratitude to all the
concerned personals without whose generous
cooperation and coordination, it would have been very
difficult for me to have a successful training experience
in the organization

I would like to thank Mr. Ramdas MP (deputy

manager training) for giving me a opportunity of
implant training, which would help me to enhance my
technical skills and helps me a lot besides technical
aspects

I am grateful to the management of Cochin

Shipyard Limited for giving me an opportunity. Finally I
would like to thank all the CSL personals who helped
me out in intensifying my technical knowledge and
provide satisfactory solutions to my questions.

SHIP BULIDING
Types of ships in Cochin shipyard

Tankers
Product Carriers
Bulk Carriers
Passenger Vessels
High Bollard Pull Tugs
Air Defence Ship

Types of ships under construction are

Fast patrol vessel
Air defence ships (ADS or IAC)
Platform supply vessel

Ship building department consists of 3

sections which are
Hull shop
HE and GA
Out fit
Hull shop

The Hull Shop is self-contained with infrastructure required for

fabrication of hull blocks up to 50 T. The shop is provided with
EOT cranes (50 T) for along the bay movements and gantry
crane (20 T) and trailers for across the bay transfer of
materials.
The four processes that take place in the hull shop are
Preparation
1. Plate preparation
: The mild steel sheets
are picked from steel yard and is fed into the hull
shop for further processes
2. Sectional preparation : different sections are
prepared such as I-section, T-section, brackets
etc
Sub-Assembly
In this stage the sheets are joint by welding etc
Assembly
This shop has telescopic sliding roof with gantry
cranes of 300 T and 150 T which spans over it and
building dock. Hull blocks up to 450 T can be
jumboized here and erected in the building dock
using the gantry crane. In addition, two 20 T capacity
EOT cranes are there in the shop.
Grand Assembly
Here parts more than 50 T are assembled

Hull Erection and Grand Assembly

After assembly, the blocks more than 50 T are welded
together in grand assembly shop or in dock. This parts are
joined together to form ships hull its called hull Erection. And
the reaming grand assembly is done after hull erection

Activities

Grand assembly
Erection of hull blocks
Reaming grand assembly works
Fit up of erected blocks
Welding and Grinding
Testing

Outfitting
After completing hull erection and grand assembly outer
frame is over. And we have to place other equipments, pipes
valves, engine, interior works controlling measures etc. This is
done through outfitting

Different outfitting are

Machinery outfitting
Electrical outfitting
Accommodation outfitting

UTILITIES AND MAINTENANCE

DEPARTMENT
For the processes of ship buildings and repairing to go
about smoothly, they require the U & M department. The main
objectives of the U &M department are
1. Upkeep of machinery in the various department of
CSL
2. Acting as liaison for CSL and conducting statutory
tests
3. Providing utilities like raw materials, electricity,
transport etc

U & M department
Mechanical shop
MM1 & MM2
Electrical shop
EM1 , EM2 & EM3
Electronic shop
Transport section

Activities taking place in U & M department

Maintenance
Supply of consumables
Power supply
Transportation
Communication
Office facilities
Statutory testing

 Building maintenance
Dock operations

Industrial set up of CSL

1. Marketing
2. Design
3. Planning
4. Production
5. Quality control

The sections that come under U & M are

Safety section
Fire section
Civil section
Planning section
Financial section
Marketing
QC

Transport section
This section is responsible for the testing of the vehicles,
crane and other transports and making the availability for use
This section also provide taxi services for officers

The vehicles under transport section

150/100 T transporter : this vehicle can be driven
from both sides , two corner wheels for driving and
other wheels for controlling and breaking , all wheels
can be controlled independently

 Forklifts: use fluid coupling and is front wheel is

driven and the rear wheels are for steering. Hydraulic
power is used to lift weight
Mobile cranes
Cranes
o Gantry cranes : both of its legs on the floor
o Semi gantry cranes : one leg on floor and other
on top side
o EOT :electric overhead traveling cranes
o Level-luffing cranes : this crane can move
material only in radial direction

Pump house
This section controls the movement of various liquids
The machinery in pump house are

Ballast pump
Main distributer pump
Gate winch
Water lines
Electric lines

Compressor house
Consist of 6 compressors of which 2 are screw compressors
and 4 are reciprocating compressors
1. Reciprocating compressor : uses reciprocating pistons for
compressing air
2. Screw / centrifugal compressor : use the opposite
principle as in turbines , it is 3 stage process

SHIP REPAIR
Ship repair section mainly concentrates on the repair
and maintenance of the ships. When a ship comes to
the dock for any repair purpose, SR department is
taking care of it. Any tests and repair needs to be done
by this section. There are various shops under ship
repair section which are

Engine shop
Machine shop
Electric shop
Quality shop
Survey shop
Rigging and painters shop

Engine and Machine shop

Works done in this shop are shaft polishing, rudder fitting
and maintenance, small plate manufacturing, inserting
sleeves onto the shafts, engine check up, lathe operations etc

Machines in engine shop

12 M lathe
Miller machine
Dynamic balancing machine
Universal tool and cutter grinder
Electric oven
Power saw

Electric shop
o Winding machine : wires are coiled using this
machine
o Scrapping and chipping machine : chalk fast ruing is
used preset moulds of good accuracy are made and
molten metal is poured into it
o Electric component assembly
o Fabrication area

Pipe shop
Mostly 2 types of pipes and tubes are used in this area
which are seam and seamless pipes
Seam pipes: electric resistance welding
Seamless pipes: billet and mandrel is used
Pipes are known by its nominal bore and then the outer
diameter. The wall thickness may vary.

Quality control
Major on tests done by ship repair are
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Leak proofing test for welded regions

Vacuum test
Air pressure test
Hose test
Ultrasonic test