Common Parts Catalog

NSRP's Common Parts Catalog (CPC) initiative employs standard data definition protocols, interfaces and a robust search engine to share part information within and between multiple shipyards and computer systems in order to streamline design, production, life cycle maintenance and business processes. CPC will serve as a powerful tool in realizing the Navy vision of 'One Shipyard for the Nation' - a virtual enterprise operating across organizational boundaries to optimize the processes of ship design, construction and repair. Considering that a single warship today can have as many as a million parts, the potential total ownership savings from reducing the number and standardization of parts specified, purchased and maintained could have a tremendous impact on cost and readiness. 

The first four shipyards to put CPC into production (Electric Boat, Bath Iron Works and Northrop Grumman Ship Systems Avondale and Ingalls Operations) are currently engaged in final data load, full-scale testing and system refinement. Electric Boat and Bath Iron Works have implemented the initial capabilities in May 2004. NGSS has scheduled June 2004 for implementation. The intra- and inter-shipyard part equivalency links within CPC will be available in December 2004.

A project for the Product Design and Materials Technologies Panel was funded to provide vendors a direct interface into the CPC compliant standard for part descriptions. A summary of that project can be found on the Panel Projects page on this website.

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