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COMPANY PROFILE

SUMMARY: Shipbuilding Business

www.asc.com.au

ASC SERVES THE FRONTLINE OF AUSTRALIA’S

NAVAL DEFENCE CAPABILITIES. As shipbuilder

for the Air Warfare Destroyer (AWD) project,

ASC is building the most advanced and complex

warships ever built in Australia at the country’s

most modern and capable shipbuilding

facilities.

ASC’s shipyard in Osborne, South Australia was

developed in 2009 to engineer, manufacture,

consolidate, outfit, and test the three Hobart

Class AWDs and has direct access to the

South Australian Government’s Common User

Facility(CUF). Designed in conjunction with the

Common User Facility, the facilities allow for

modern modular shipbuilding practices and

land level construction to maximise levels

of pre-outfitting prior to launch.

The first AWD, the future destroyer Hobart, was

launched in May 2015 and ASC is well advanced

in the consolidation of the future destroyers

Brisbane and Sydney. Applying the lessons

learned from construction of the first of class

in a new shipyard, we are achieving productivity

improvements of 30 percent between the first

and second ships, and in excess of 10 percent

between the second and third ships.

ASC manages a global supply chain for its

shipbuilding activities, including outsourced

module fabrication and outfit. Our project

management, production engineering,

configuration management, planning, and

production teams ensure an effective and

efficient construction process is followed before

progressive handover of the ships systems

to the test and activation teams. Our logistic

support team delivers the documentation and

spares required for in-service operation.

Our facilities are security accredited, and

managing export controlled or commercially

sensitive data is a way of life for us.

With more than 1,800 professionals and

tradespeople operating at our Osborne

site, ASC Shipbuilding is proud to be

at the forefront of naval shipbuilding,

and delivering capability to the Royal Australian

Navy. ASC Shipbuilding complies with Navy’s

Naval Technical Regulatory System, and

engages with classification societies as

required to fulfill customer requirements.

With capacity for ships up to 9,300 tonne, ASC

Shipbuilding has the facilities, personnel and

know-how to safely and effectively deliver

the required capability for the Navy.

OUR BUSINESS ACTIVITIES

In addition to our production capability, ASC

Shipbuilding has more than 400 project

management, engineering, planning, supply

chain, material control, configuration

management, integrated logistic support

staff supporting our projects including:

• 150+ professional engineers

and naval architects;

• 140+ qualified technician;

• 70+ construction planners estimators

and schedulers; and

• 40+ logistic support engineers

and technicians.

More than 1,000 skilled production workers

cover the full range of production trades

including, boilermakers, shipwrights, welders,

pipe welders and pipe fitters, fitters and

turners, electricians, electronic and control

technicians, refrigeration mechanics, riggers,

surveyors, sheet metal workers and operators.

ASC Shipbuilding manages an international

supply chain to support our programs. Bills

of material are generated from our integrated

enterprise resource planning system, along with

specifications and certification quality evidence

requirements. Using our global reach, and

Australian business network we prequalify,

source, procure, subcontract, quality assess,

manage, verify and accept systems, equipment,

components and services to support our

Program needs. Our expertise in ensuring

compliance with Australian safety and

environmental requirements, as well as meeting

technical and customer quality requirements

delivers an efficient and flexible supply chain.

Our global supply chain covers more than 1,100

suppliers from 16 countries including more than

900 Australian suppliers. ASC Shipbuilding

operates greater than 10,000 square meters

of secure warehousing for storage and care of

platform and combat system equipment prior

to installation, and consistently achieve material

fill and on time delivery to production of over

98 percent.

ASC has long standing collaborations with

specialist organisations and capability partners

to support and continuously improve our

shipbuilding expertise. Our technical support

network includes:

• Shipbuilding Capability Partner:

General Dynamics; Bath Iron Works;

• Defence Science and Technology

Organisation (DSTO);

• Universities, and laboratories;

• Government research organisations;

• Industry subject matter experts; and

• Classification societies.

OUR PEOPLE OUR SUPPLY CHAIN AND MATERIALS MANAGEMENT

OUR TECHNICAL SUPPORT NETWORK

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ASC Pty LtdMersey Road, OsborneSouth Australia 5017Telephone +61 8 8348 7000Facsimile +61 8 8348 7001www.asc.com.au

With the most modern shipyard in Australia, and direct access to the eight hectare South Australian Government operated Common User Facility,

the ASC shipyard provides:

OUR FACILITIES

FACILITY SPECIFICATIONS

Warehousing and storage • Offsite and onsite material receiving and warehousing• Plate and profile storage• 20,000sqm+ of hard stand (outdoor) outfit and block stowage

Workshop and outfitting facilities

• Three steel fabrication workshops of 5,700sqm with one 16 tonne, two 35 tonne and three 20 tonne overhead cranes• Plate rolling capability• 500sqm pipe fabrication workshop with five tonne crane• 720sqm electrical workshops• Combat system load out preparation and staging workshop• Machinery and shaft line workshops with 80 tonne and 16 tonne overhead crane • CNC machining room with five axis machining centre• Gas and electrical connections reticulated throughout the site, including to workshops and hardstand areas.• Two module outfit workshops with central outfit support towers (OST). Each workshop has a 100 tonne and 25 tonne

overhead crane with max hook height of >17m and door width of 33.4m. Total floor area is in excess of 6,200sqm.• Two five level OSTs adjacent to the consolidation dry berth providing production facilities, workshops, stores and direct

access to the ship

Reticulated services • Gas and electrical connections reticulated throughout the site, including to workshops and hardstand areas.• Three 1250 kVA Static Frequency Converters for 440V 60 Hz ship shore power supply plus one 1,000 kVA transformer

for supply of 415V power

Craneage and self-propelled modular transporters

• Manitowic Heavy Lift Crane of 350 tonne capacity at 30 meters with maximum lift of 900 tonne, and maximum hook height of approximately 80 meters.

• 32.5meter span gantry crane with 175 tonne capacity and 21.8 meter to underside of beam• Four 216 tonne capacity Self Propelled Modular Transports (8.4 meter load length each).

Max capacity 850 tonne when coupled together

Blast and paint facilities • Blast and Paint Facility plus two temporary facilities on Common User Facility with total area of 3,100sqm

Wharf support • Wharf support and activation team offices and workshops with more than 6,000sqm total floor space.

Technical and administrative facilities

• Technical and administration offices of 5,400sqm with capacity for 320 staff.• Foran computer aided engineering • Autodesk and DS Solidworks 3D Computer Aided Design• Strand 7 FEM/FEA• Material Catalog integrated with Control ERP system• ECQMS Documentation and Configuration Management tool• Electrical and Pipe Support Systems

Defence SA (State Government)Common User Facility (CUF)

• 315 meter long consolidation dry berth and Common User Facility runway fully serviced with high voltage electricity, potable water, seawater, fire services, communications, and compressed air.

• TTS Trolley and cradle system with a nominal capacity in excess of 10,000 tonnes servicing dry berth, runway and shiplift.• 156m x 34m CUF Shiplift of 9,300 tonnes capacity, and up to 9.5 meter draft with expansion capability.• Fully serviced CUF wharf -213 metres long and 25 metres wide, with a depth alongside of 10.5m.