Shipyard APS

Advanced Planning & Scheduling You Can Trust

Create realistic, feasible and optimized production plans even in highly dynamic environments. Optimize work sequences, resource allocation, and project timelines with Floor2Plan’s APS engine for shipyards.

What is an APS (Advanced Planning & Scheduling)?

APS (Advanced Planning & Scheduling) refers to systems designed to optimize production planning based on constraints such as capacity, labor skills, materials, space, and inter‑project dependencies.

Rather than assuming ideal conditions, APS helps organizations build plans that reflect how work can actually be executed, providing a more reliable foundation for decision‑making in complex production environments.

Why shipyards need APS

APS systems optimize production plans based on real constraints such as capacity, labor skills, materials, space, and inter-project dependencies. Traditional planning assumes stability. Shipyards never have it.

Without an advanced, constraint-aware planning layer, bottlenecks are detected too late, schedules drift away from reality, and planners are forced into constant manual re-planning. APS provides the structure needed to anticipate constraints, evaluate alternatives, and maintain control despite continuous change.

How Floor2Plan APS works

Floor2Plan APS includes an advanced, constraint-aware scheduling engine specifically designed for highly dynamic environments like shipyards. It supports both long-term project planning and short-term operational adjustments, ensuring that plans remain achievable as conditions change.

Floor2Plan APS capabilities include:

Constraint‑based scheduling that accounts for capacity, labor skills, space, and material availability when building production plans.

What‑if scenario simulation to explore alternatives and understand the impact of changes before committing to a schedule.

Execution‑based forecasting that continuously updates plans based on real progress from the shop floor.

Automatic sequence optimization to improve flow and reduce conflicts between activities.

Material and readiness dependencies embedded directly into the planning logic to avoid unrealistic task releases.

Cross‑project scheduling to balance priorities and shared resources across multiple vessels or programs.

Visual planning boards that make complex schedules easier to understand, communicate, and adjust.

Together, these capabilities provide a single, constraint‑aware planning layer that helps shipyards build realistic schedules, adapt faster to change, and maintain predictability across projects.

Floor2Plan APS enables planners to create achievable schedules that reflect real-world conditions, supporting both forecast planning and continuous re-planning as execution unfold.

Advanced planning is crucial in shipbuilding, but without a direct link to execution and operations management, it quickly loses effectiveness.
Floor2Plan integrates APS, MES, and MOM, ensuring that planning is always aligned with the reality of the shipyard and day‑to‑day operational processes.

Ready to bring structure and predictability to shipyard planning?
Request a personalized demo and see how Floor2Plan APS adapts to real-world constraints.

"Floor2Plan reduces errors, but we also have much deeper insights into costs and workloads, which empowers us to make better decisions and proactively manage resources."

Michel Boeckx Chief Technology Officer Hanwha Philly Shipyard

"Floor2Plan is production control on steroids. It enables us with process control whilst managing our project schedules, budgets and production constraints.”

William LeeuwesteinProduction Coordinator, Royal IHC