Floor2Plan 2023 Q1 Released
Posted onThe 2023 Q1 release of Floor2Plan brings several enhancements, bug fixes, and technical improvements. Here's a summary of the key points for readers who are not currently using Floor2Plan... more
Jorge Marijuán Castro Named Commercial Agent for Floorganise Spain
Posted onJorge Marijuán Castro Named Commercial Agent for Floorganise, Boosting Digital Innovation in Spanish Shipyards... more
Floor2Plan upgrades to .NET Core
Posted onWe are excited to announce the upgrade of our complete core base to the new .net core framework. This upgrade is an important step in our mission to provide the most innovative and reliable... more
Floorganise passed ATO cloud assessment
Posted onThe Floor2Plan shipyard-MES solution vendor, Floorganise, is proud to announce that it has recently passed an Authority to Operate (ATO) cloud assessment by one of its clients. This assessment is a... more
Presenting at Summit REAIM '23: "Predicting Military Asset Availability on Sustainment Efforts using A.I."
Posted onDiscussing the key opportunities, challenges and risks associated with military applications of AI that is influencing and changing our world fundamentally.... more
Floorganise travelling the world to implement our digital tools
Posted onOur staff recently had the opportunity to travel to the USA, Vietnam and Europe to deliver our shipyard message and develop customer relations.... more
Webinar Recording: How to Boost Control in Ship Repair dec 1 2022
Posted onUnderstand the main drivers of operational control and learn how your yard can improve its competitive performance. Delivering vessels on-time, on-spec and within budget.... more
New: internal transport module
Posted onTo accommodate client requests Floorganise develops the internal transport planning module. This is an add-on similar to Floorspace planning.... more
Floor2Plan Q3 Released
Posted onASAP and ALAP in one planning, AI for finish date prediction, a renewed user interface, updated security and control frameworks and many more capabilities are available for our clients in the latest... more
US Naval Shipyards start innovating with F2P
Posted onNational Shipbuilding Research Program Awards $6.5 million for R&D Project Portfolio. September 26, 2022-- The Executive Control Board of the National Shipbuilding Research Program (NSRP) has selected... more
F2P Workshops at World Shipbuilding Conference
Posted onFloorganise has participated in the World Shipbuilding Conference 2022 in Mobile on October 4 to 6. For the first time since 2018 this biennial conference focused on the latest innovations in digital... more
Opening our doors in Australia
Posted onFloorganise International B.V., a leading developer of the Floor2Plan Shipyard-MES (manufacturing execution system), project controls and process optimization software in the marine and shipbuilding... more
Webinar video available: 5 Keys to Enhancing Shipyard Productivity
Posted onUnderstand the four main causes of why productivity (lead-time and cost-price) within shipyards is being improved so slowly and five main ideas to address these causes.... more
New video series of use cases for automated planning
Posted onA top 10 of detail planning use cases are being recorded over the next weeks. You want to add yours too?... more
Welcome to William: shipbuilder of 30 years experience
Posted onWilliam joins our team with 30 years of applied knowledge crossing the bridge between daily practice, best practice and practical results.... more
Referral yard visit within the USA
Posted onOperational excellence is a topic with growing interest throughout the shipbuilding industry in the USA. For Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul yards, new build shipyards as well as for the public... more
Visiting Detyens Shipyard USA for on site support
Posted onSince 2021 Detyens Shipyards, Inc., located in the historic city of Charleston, South Carolina is using Shipyard-MES Floor2Plan. Through close interaction and on site support the Floorganise team is... more
Floorganise participates in shared fabrication facility
Posted onThis project investigates how robotization can be applied in the northern shipbuilding industry to improve the productivity of the entire chain. The future of the northern shipbuilding industry is... more
Welcome to the team Niels!
Posted onAs of this week Niels joins our team as full stack software developer. And from his graduation project on artificial intelligence we are eager to see a big boost for our R&D roadmap coming in.... more
Artificial Intelligence for enhanced project control (Video)
Posted onReal time predictions of arising risks, duration or budget deviations within your complex projects.... more
Philly Shipyard reflects on Floor2Plan (video)
Posted onMichel Boeckx (CTO) and Ralf Neckien (project planning coordinator) from Philly Shipyard reflect on Floor2Plan.... more
Floorganise's AI-powered Floor2Plan tool aims to streamline ship building
Posted onFloorganise’s Floor2Plan uses AI to support the repair, overhaul and maintenance of cruise ships as well as the build of new ones by making predictions on end dates and budgets.... more
Elon Musk on manufacturing
Posted on''Manufacturing is underrated and design is overrated as setting up the production system takes up to 10.000% more work'' says Musk. If this is true for rocket building how about shipbuilding?... more
Welcome to Jón our new software engineer!
Posted onToday we welcome a new addition to our software engineering team. Welcome Jón!... more
Predictive planning (AI-enhanced) with Floor2Plan
Posted onOur first experiments with using AI-enhanced planning for ship production operations are proven to be very valuable. Highlighting future risks in (running) shipbuilding projects for duration of... more
Column in NMT Magazine: Hollands glorie en de toekomst
Posted onAbsolute wereldklasse. Dat is het gevoel dat overblijft nadat, met de expertise van Boskalis en de snijkopzuiger MASSHOUR (‘96!) van Royal IHC, de Ever Given werd losgetrokken. Juist toen het spannend... more
Floorganise in NMT Magazine on the potential of process optimization.
Posted onOptimizing processes is a topic that every shipyard should be working on. Daily practice shows that this is not yet done enough.... more
Welcome to our new project manager and shipbuilder!
Posted onWelcome to our new project manager and shipbuilder!... more
Cadmatic Floorganise | joint webinar video
Posted onIn this webinar, we will walk you through features such as integrated (detail) planning and control, enhanced shop floor control, instant earned value recognition and utilizing the 3D model for... more
Floorganise participates in Maritime Platform 2021
Posted onHet grootste online event van Nederland voor de maritieme sector. Met interviews, debat, reportages, spraakmakende sprekers en digitale ontmoetingen met branchegenoten.... more
Welcome at Floorganise to Alex our new AI engineer!
Posted onIn order to enhance ship production planning with more dependability, the potential of machine learning is unleashed by Floorganise. Equipped with ship building specific capabilities, granular norms... more
Royal IHC enhances planning and control with F2P upgrade
Posted onLaunching customer and client since 2010, Royal IHC has recently extended their long time cooperation with Floorganise by upgrading to the latest version of Floor2Plan.... more
National Shipbuilding Research Program (NSRP) awards Floorganise and SSI USA with R&D Project
Posted onFloorganise BV from the Netherlands, ShipConstructor Software USA, Inc. (SSI USA) and project partners Austal USA, Fincantieri Marinette Marine and Philly Shipyard PSI have been awarded funding for... more
Scheepswerf Geertman start digitalisering met Floor2Plan
Posted onZwartsluis – Met ingang van heden gaat bij Scheepswerf Geertman digitalisering hand in hand met ambacht en vakmanschap. Sinds kort wordt namelijk het schrijven van uren, boeken van materialen en het... more
Philly Shipyards expands cooperation with Floorganise
Posted onPhilly Shipyard is a leading U.S. commercial shipyard constructing vessels for operation in the U.S. Jones Act market, which requires all commercial vessels transporting merchandise between ports in... more
LEAN Shipbuilding starts easy -> involve the shop floor
Posted onLEAN Shipbuilding starts easy -> involve the shop floor... more
Cadmatic and Floorganise partner to enhance shipyard production planning and control
Posted onCADMATIC Ltd and Floorganise BV have entered into a strategic partnership to expand their product portfolios and enhance production planning and control at shipyards. The partnership includes joint... more
Philly Shipyard; at their ''Zwolle field office''
Posted onTechnical integrations and production improvement efforts require a thorough understanding of joint possibilities. With those points of interest we had a productive week at our office in Zwolle, the... more
NEW: Artificial Intelligence for enhanced planning and control in shipbuilding
Posted onScheduling resources, assigning tasks, deciding on dates and lead times, changing the duration and providing budgets. Each shipbuilding plan consists of thousands of items and moving parts. Which all... more
Up close with the Zumwalt-class destroyer at Bath Iron Works
Posted onThe US Navy's top tier vessels are built here... more
Applying best practices in Dutch Shipbuilding
Posted onDamen, Royal IHC and De Hoop were all visited last week by a delegation of NMT (Dutch Maritime Association), Dassault Systeme and Floorganise.... more
On-site yard support in the US
Posted onContinuous improvements requires continuous involvement. With this mindset we were on site to apply our up close and personal approach to supporting the supervisors and planners at our clients yard.... more
Congratulations on new orders at NBBB
Posted onNichols Brothers Boat Builders (NBBB), is to provide two 43m-long fast ferries to join Kitsap Transit’s service between Pier 50 in Seattle and Kingston and Southworth over the Puget Sound.... more
NEW: a maturity approach to shop floor control
Posted onIn each specific phase of building a ship all distinctive roles have similar informational needs project to project. Making processes and projects more predictable requires delivery on these needs.... more
Air Carrier USS John F. Kennedy
Posted onMeeting up with the impressive air carrier USS John F Kennedy today..... more
Royal van Lent (Feadship) takes delivery of Floor2Plan (in Dutch)
Posted onRoyal van Lent has recently taken delivery of Floor2Plan for their Kaag based shipyard.... more
Welcome to our new service manager
Posted onA warm welcome to Rik Groenewoud our new service manager starting as of may 1st. To serve our clients shipyards with pro-active service in support off their daily operations.... more
Where do naval repair and conversion challenges resemble those of fighter jets?
Posted onWe'll soon find out, winning this nomination for the innovation challenge of the Royal Dutch Air Force... more
Nichols Brothers Boat Builders
Posted onCheck out: NBBB | Seattle USA | Lindblad Expeditions... more
An interesting read on MES and ERP from our partner Nestix OY
Posted onWritten by: Marcel Veldhuizen from Nestix OY. Reasons why ERP needs MES, a compilation of articles and personal experience notes..... more
Floorganise enters into new market territory
Posted onWith the contract signed just before Christmas 2018 Floorganise enters into new stage of its development. With the signing of a contract for delivering a pilot project at a Washington State based... more
Floorganise visits Seaspan / Victoria Shipyard in Vancouver
Posted onUp close and personal. That is how our visit to the vancouver based shipyard Seaspan Vancouver Drydocks is remembered. Meeting up with business contacts and even more impressive a huge Canadian... more
Visiting Vard / Fincantieri
Posted onMore impressive than we have seen before in Europe. Impressive size and impressive scale. That is how the operations of Vard / Fincantieri can be summarized. A great visit but even more inspiring.... more
In Depth: Dutch Shipyards Are Looking to the Future
Posted onShipyards are the backbone of the Dutch maritime cluster. For centuries, these shipyards have been a breeding ground for innovation. From the 18th-century cargo ships that sailed the seven seas, to... more
Floorganise congratulates Royal IHC on new order
Posted onRoyal IHC and Egyptian mod sign contract for 10 IHC Beaver... more
(Dutch) Interview in Maritime Nederland: Increase efficiency in shipbuilding with Floorganise
Posted onWe create IT-tooling based on a vision. An efficient yard floor integrates people and processes with the product that is being built. As our name also indicates, we focus on organizing the yard floor.... more
Floorganise congratulates Royal Niestern Sander with Shipping Award 2017
Posted onHet innovatieve karakter van onze klant Koninklijke Niestern Sander en de andere samenwerkingspartners komt tot uitdrukking in het winnen van deze mooie prijs.... more
''A different approach to shipbuilding is urgently needed'' (source: Financieel Dagblad 7 November 2017)
Posted onDutch shipbuilders have produced 3% less with 1% more staff in 2016. In order to keep shipbuilders in the Netherlands a different approach is needed. More efficient building practices regarding... more
Build ships more efficiently with Floor2Plan
Posted onHet bouwen van een schip is een complex proces. Essentieel is dat alle onderdelen op het juiste moment worden gemaakt en geleverd, zodat de bouw naadloos kan verlopen. Het Zwolse bedrijf Floorganise... more