MARINE SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Financial tools or ERP-systems in shipyards 

A variety of systems like Enterprise Resource Planning tools with vendors like SAP, Sage, Deltek, Costpoint, IFS, JD Edwards and more locally ECI Software with Inventiv ERP, Trimergo ERP and Ridder ERP are used. Or even Microsoft Dynamics Navision ERP or AMS ERP. These systems are oftentimes the financial backbone of the shipyard making it a sound decision to accommodate all financial yard planning available from these systems. Also by connecting the ERP with the project plans to recognize financial impacts from the key milestones and consumption of materials and hours. It’s obviously crucial to have periodical pre- and post-calculation comparisons. 

Project control framework IT-tools or IT-systems in shipbuilding

To accommodate the project planning needs we come across Open Plan, Microsoft Projects, Microsoft Excel, Oracle Primavera P5, Oracle Primavera P6 and obviously Floorganise with Floor2Plan. Setting up the project plan is obviously a crucial task as it has the potential to mitigate many of the risks that are recognized on the project level. Such as the critical chain for the project and the parts or components to buy early in time. But many of the challenges in shipbuilding are only materialized on the project level as they originate from operations. 

Production or operational planning for shipyards  

Issues, challenges and deviations are oftentimes only recognized when they are brought to production. The wrong specifications, drawings, materials or other difficulties. As the shipbuilding project is heavily dependent on the consumption of many hours of skilled craftsmen, the logistical chain of activities and other interdependencies from internal and external parties it is crucial to also control the process level of the yard. Detail planning activities are put in place to assure that the processes are streamlined and aligned with the project plan. Through the early recognition of deviations in the process (for scarce resources, insufficient progress or shifting timelines) the financial impact for the project can be limited greatly. Tools that are often used for this purpose are Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Projects or Floorganise with Floor2Plan. 

Resource and time tracking tools for shipbuilding  

To control the resources for the yard it is crucial to have insights in the availability of individuals (shifts, holidays, hours per week) their skills (i.e. certifications,licenses, trades), their department allocation and obviously the time they spent on the yard (shop time, clock times) as well as time spent on jobs (job time). A variety of tools are used for this purpose and since no other system than Floorganise with Floor2Plan can accommodate all these needs in one system a variety of systems are used on conjunction with each other. Examples are Kronos Autotime, Kronos Workforce Timekeeper, GPS Timetracking, Integritime, EpicFlow and B4ICT or Modest. 

Tracking progress within your yard and subcontractors 

Since the number of departments and teams involved in your shipbuilding project is manifold it is crucial to receive periodical or ideally weekly feedback from them. On where they stand with their level of progress, tasks completed, hours to go, issues and so forth. In daily practice shipyards are oftentimes using Microsoft Excel, paper processes or Oracle Primavera Team member tools to accommodate these needs. To really integrate the planning with the control cycle Floorganise’ Floor2Plan is capable of providing the users with one platform accommodating all the various progress needs.