AVEVA Shipyard Process

AVEVA Integrated Shipbuilding Anticipating and addressing the challenges of the shipbuilding industry

Product Strategy AVEVA Solutions Limited Published December 2010

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Contents Page 1. Executive Summary 1.1 AVEVA Integrated Shipbuilding 1.2 Business Areas within the Shipbuilding Process

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2. Executive Management Information

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3. Business Capture and Sales

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Planning and Control

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5. Engineering and Design

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6. Procurement and Supply Chain

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7. Stock and Logistics

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8. Production

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9. Commissioning and Delivery

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10. The Extended Shipyard

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11. Summary

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1. Executive Summary Marine projects demand sophisticated design capabilities staggering amounts of data and documents, complex schedules, and huge quantities of materials and resources. To make matters worse, these resources are evolving and changing throughout the shipbuilding process as part of a dynamic workflow that demands tight coordination between internal and external parties. In order to succeed under these conditions, shipyards must have highly developed capabilities for generating, coordinating and managing this complex equation of information, materials allocation and resource availability within the contractually agreed time schedules and costs. The ideal marine design and management solution must include a business support system that fully integrates and maintains consistency between all the dimensions of the operation and throughout the shipbuilding process. With the acquisition of the MARS process management software in 2010, AVEVA extended its shipbuilding portfolio to include all key design and management capabilities essential for the creation of a comprehensive marine solution. Designed specifically for the shipbuilding industry, AVEVA MARS optimises project control, logistics and materials management, as well as resource and production planning. The timely availability of accurate material and production information has been shown to dramatically improve productivity and profitability, reducing overall production cost and project build time.

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The addition of the AVEVA MARS products into the AVEVA Marine portfolio creates an unmatched, world-class engineering and information management offering specifically for the marine industry, with integrated planning for design and production, materials control and project management.

1.1 AVEVA Integrated Shipbuilding AVEVA dominates the shipbuilding industry, with 43 of the top 50 global shipyards relying on its design and management software solutions. The acquisition of the market-leading Tribon Software in 2004 provides AVEVA with decades of expertise in the creation of design and production information for the shipbuilding process. The addition of the MARS process management technology in 2010 rounds out the portfolio and reinforces AVEVA’s firm commitment to providing industry-leading solutions for the shipbuilding industry. AVEVA Integrated Shipbuilding supports design development at all stages of the production process and across all technical disciplines. Design data is transformed into production for parts manufacture and assembly with automated tools that ensure production information is accurate, and tuned to the specific needs of each shipyard. Carefully managed and accurate information has been proven to create huge savings in shipbuilding production costs and project schedules. AVEVA NET is the information management infrastructure upon which AVEVA’s integrated environment is built. AVEVA NET supports the access and management of information across an organisation and throughout the entire lifecycle of a ship. It provides a secure environment for vendors, owners, classification societies and partners to share and collaborate on project information. AVEVA NET’s open interfaces meet the latest ISO standards and provide a vehicle to dynamically interact with existing shipyard design, production and enterprise resource applications for efficient knowledge management and design reuse. Uniquely in the marine industry, AVEVA is able to offer a fully integrated business system for efficient shipbuilding, covering all dimensions of the design and construction process. With AVEVA, design and production follow a well defined and managed process that gives shipyards the right information at the right time, so they can make the right decisions.

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1.2 Business Areas within the Shipbuilding Process A successful shipyard understands the needs of different business operations and their evolving responsibilities, which begin with an initial proposal and continue through vessel commissioning. One way to ensure that the often competing needs and interests of different groups are fully addressed is to analyse the complexities of each strategic business area. This document divides the ship construction process into nine key business operations, and examines the unique operational requirements of each, and their impact on the overall process. T T T T T T T T T

Executive Management Information Business Capture and Sales Planning and Control Engineering and Design Procurement and Supply Chain Stock and Logistics Production Commission and Delivery Extended Shipyard

‘A successful shipyard understands the needs of different business operations and their evolving responsibilities, which begin with an initial proposal and continue through vessel commissioning...’

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2. Executive Management Information Business Requirements In order to make informed business decisions on large projects and individual activities, corporate executives and senior management require a reliable and accurate information infrastructure. For their decisions to be fully informed, the information provided must meet the unique sensitivities of the marine industry, spanning a wide range of disciplines including overall planning, design, production and materials management, across multiple, concurrent projects. One of the key responsibilities of executive decision-makers is to reduce business risk throughout their organisation and this can only be achieved with complete, dynamic and cross-functional information. Operational Realities More often than not, the reality of the modern shipyard actually handicaps the executive decision process. Poorly informed decisions can lead to fundamental design errors and a major impact on downstream production. Project knowledge is locked inside isolated systems which cannot be easily shared, leading to incomplete and inaccurate pools of information, that are incapable of giving a complete overview across multiple projects. It can be impossible to dynamically synchronize data sets, making it difficult to capture an evolving view of the status of a project, something that is essential for informed decision making.

This lack of integration is often caused by the use of generic PLM software and other technology not designed to meet the needs of the shipbuilding industry. What may seem a cost-effective solution can demand extensive customisation, which ultimately provides a less than optimised system at a very high total cost of ownership. For the executive management team charged with making critical business decisions, the consequences of a poorly integrated information management system can have a direct impact on the bottom line. Business risk is dramatically increased when decisions are made using incomplete or inaccurate information. The competitiveness of a shipyard is seriously impaired and the overall agility of the organization is compromised. Poor decisions and systemic inefficiencies can cost a shipyard hundreds of thousands of dollars in rework and missed opportunities. The AVEVA Solution AVEVA provides the industry’s most complete and fully integrated shipbuilding solution. Designed specifically for the marine industry, and with decades of proven success, the AVEVA Marine portfolio offers an unmatched range of design, process control and information management capability. Ensuring that information is available and accessible underpins the entire architecture of the AVEVA solution. Using tools such as a user-definable management dashboard, executive decision makers not only have the access they need to monitor and measure project and information status, but can also be alerted to potential issues the moment they arise. This allows them to manage by exception, supporting early and informed decisions that reduce the operational risk to their shipyard, and ensure a rapid return on investment through major cost savings.

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3. Business Capture and Sales Business Requirements Before a shipyard can engage in any vessel construction project, it must compete with other yards to present the most attractive proposal to the contracting owner that balances cost, slots and marker lists. Having an integrated business system across all project disciplines is critical to delivering quick and accurate tender documentation. The ultimate profitability of the business demands that the tendering and business capture processes produce accurate and competitive proposals that can be efficiently delivered throughout the lifecycle of the project, which often extends three years or more into the future.

Operational Realities Within many shipyards the cost estimation and tendering process can be complex and time consuming. A lack of computerized and consistent information can make a company highly dependent on key individuals, and the absence of a well documented process obstructs the integration with planning, procurement and supply chain management. Those shipyards with a less systematic approach to tendering can suffer inefficiencies during each proposal, since they cannot easily draw on past estimates and experience for future projects. The consequence can be a rigid and manpower-intensive process that produces a less than optimised proposal. Changes are very time consuming and costly, restricting a shipyard’s ability to respond to project opportunities, and reducing its overall competitiveness. The AVEVA Solution Using a fully integrated shipbuilding model, the AVEVA solution directly addresses systemic weaknesses that so often compromise the tendering and business capture process. AVEVA delivers a consistent cost management solution that takes into account all relevant cost elements, from early estimation and pre-calculation through future projects and program cost management where actual costs are monitored and aggregated in a real-time environment. This is based not only on new information, but on the capture and intelligent reuse of historical information from past tenders, as well as current information from sister-ship projects. This reduces risk in both material estimation and business logistics for the shipyard by helping to ensure that tenders are accurate and repeatable, and draw on past project experience as part of a continual optimisation process. AVEVA allows the business capture and sales teams the flexibility they need to be more competitive by responding quickly with accurate and informed proposals. Executive management can also operate with a much greater degree of confidence in the quality of the tendering process, integration with project execution, and its impact on the overall business.

‘Using a fully integrated shipbuilding model, the AVEVA solution directly addresses systemic weaknesses that so often compromise the tendering and business capture process...’

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4. Planning and Control Business Requirements Planning and schedule control lie at the heart of any well executed project. Planning and project directors, together with their staff, are responsible for the coordination of all tasks for both design and production in a multi-project environment. This critical responsibility touches on virtually every aspect of a project and plays a pivotal role in build strategy, productivity, quality, optimisation and cost-effective execution. The multi-disciplinary nature of this management process demands a comprehensive view of the overall project as it constantly evolves. The ability of a shipyard to tightly manage security, planning and project control can make the difference between business success and failure. Operational Realities The use of different tools for different planning tasks is the norm for many shipyards. This situation makes it very difficult to ensure any degree of planning integrity and strategic coordination. Disconnected security strategies mean that engineers can incorporate non-validated information into project designs, with major downstream consequences. Without automated integration between the different planning levels, the only way to coordinate activity is through manual synchronization which can be time consuming and prone to error. The overall lack of project traceability actually promotes poor quality information, causing unnecessary additional design loops. The result can have a major impact on productivity and cost. To provide just three examples: a lack of integration between production planning and design planning leads to late availability of drawings for production, assembly and outfitting. A lack of integration between planning and material management results in materials not being in the right place at the right time. And a lack of integration within the design processes themselves can necessitate expensive rework later in the production phase. Without an integrated approach to the planning and control process, schedules will be unrealistic and the actual status of project activities will not be fed back into the process, adversely impacting later activities, and making it difficult to measure and improve performance. Poor logistics ultimately lead to project delays and reduced quality.

‘AVEVA provides seamless integration with design information, materials, and resource management to ensure reliable planning that is efficient, cost effective and maintains build quality...’ The AVEVA Solution The AVEVA solution for shipyards supports planning and control from high-level strategic coordination to individual shop floor operations and across multiple projects. It measures project performance based on an EVMS (Earned Value Management System) methodology, providing seamless integration with design information, materials, and resource management to ensure reliable planning that is efficient and cost-effective, and maintains build quality. Initial major milestones can be established together with rough-cut plans using work breakdown structures (WBS) to define primary scheduling targets. The WBS elements are linked and scheduled with the major milestones for strategic planning, and task work packages are defined down to the lowest level within a WBS. In combination with strict permission controls and a customisable workflow for the validation of information, an AVEVA solution manages information status throughout the project lifecycle. This fully integrated and highly granular planning and control process allows planners to create accurate scheduling that reflects current project conditions, and use it as a tool to monitor project status, identifying and mitigating conflicts. Simulations can also be run to analyse potential scheduling impacts and a dispatch view can be created for foremen in the field to monitor and manage work group schedules. Formal processes can be established to manage the flow of information to external classification societies and interdepartmental stakeholders, to ensure consistency and compliance. AVEVA’s integrated planning capabilities provide the administrative control that is essential to project execution integrity and productivity for both current and future projects.

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5. Engineering and Design Business Requirements Most of the planning and execution of the shipbuilding process is highly dependent on the design of the vessel. While the design and management teams are tasked with engineering all aspects of the ship, they are also responsible for ensuring that relevant engineering, material and production information is optimised and available to support the manufacturing, assembly and commissioning processes. The engineering team must be able to make full reuse of past designs, and rapidly create and validate new designs to maximise the efficiency of the vessel and its production process. To achieve this, they require world-class applications that include instrumentation, electrical and piping schematics and all aspects of hull design and outfitting, which must be tightly integrated with the planning and production disciplines used throughout the project lifecycle. Operational Realities Unlike most construction projects, it is commonplace for shipyards to begin production well before the vessel design is complete. While this can compress schedules, it also creates opportunities for miscommunication, data inconsistencies, project delays and expensive rework. The multi-disciplinary nature of engineering and design means that most shipyards employ a wide range of 2D and 3D design applications, from a host of different software suppliers that provide little or no operational integration. The result is a collection of isolated databases that actually lock away the critical design information, making it difficult to share and control project design information. These ‘silos‘ of information demand a great deal of manual intervention to manage, negatively impacting project productivity, and a lack of permission control can result in designs based on incorrect or invalid information.

‘AVEVA integrates engineering and design data into one product model, ensuring a “single source of truth” for all information...’

The AVEVA Solution Built specifically for the needs of the marine industry, AVEVA design solutions have been proven for decades in the world’s leading shipyards. However, it is no longer enough to have world-class design applications; they must also eliminate the information silos between the engineering, planning and control processes. AVEVA integrates engineering and design data into one product model, ensuring a ‘single source of truth’ for all information, whether engineering and design, functional design, detailed design, or production, planning and materials data. AVEVA's focus on interoperability enables huge flexibility in the choice of engineering authoring tools, but also guarantees a high level of integration across the other phases of the shipbuilding process. For example, the solution provides an interface to industry-standard mechanical CAD systems, as well as a common catalogue that shares material information between design and material management applications. Additionally, it enables information to be securely used across global deployments, via the Internet or an organisation's existing private networks. This ability is crucial in a shipbuilding industry that is increasingly reliant on subcontracting, outsourcing and other dispersed relationships. This is essential to drive greater efficiency into today’s highly competitive shipbuilding industry.

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6. Procurement and Supply Chain Business Requirements Procurement and materials management directors have one of the most difficult coordination tasks in the shipyard. They are responsible for the process of planning procurement of major equipment, internal requisitioning of all equipment, material and services, negotiation with vendors, and executing and expediting the actual purchase. These tasks are dependent on, and influenced by, a wide range of other activities so it is absolutely essential that the information they require is accessible and accurate. Since the shipbuilding process is in a constant state of flux, it is also critical that the procurement team be informed of changes in a timely way so they can take appropriate action to avoid unnecessary expense and delays. Operational Realities The greatest risk to creating an efficient procurement and supply chain process is poor quality information and a lack of coordination. It is all too common for procurement to be seen as a separate and independent activity when it should be an integral part of the much wider design and production process.

The AVEVA Solution The key to the AVEVA Marine procurement and supply chain strategy is the ability for shipyards to start the procurement process at the design stage and to maintain a collaborative exchange of information throughout the project lifecycle. The AVEVA solution provides this capability right from the earliest stages of the product, through a materials request system that serves as a focal point for all purchase orders and enquiries. Through this system, designers can propose potential suppliers and initial delivery dates. Using standard project component lists, part lists and material catalogues, plus the ability to link 3D objects directly to an item in those catalogues, designers can also select standard material items, with the correct standard and certificates, for purchase order generation. A controlled workflow process ensures that orders complete the appropriate review cycle before being marked ‘Ready‘ and that they are tracked throughout the delivery process until handover to supply and logistics. At the same time, the solution also enables detailed management of the project component catalogue, to ensure the orderly procurement of more complex, long-lead items, such as engines, HVAC systems, etc.

The tools provided can actually reduce access to the complete and accurate information set that is vital in the making of key project decisions. Lack of visibility of an elemental activity like budgeting, for example, can have serious cash flow consequences which, in turn, can threaten the entire material procurement process. Poor information quality has very direct project consequences, which can include compromising the ability to negotiate effectively with vendors, inability to identify long-lead items, incorrect and incomplete orders, and delivering at the wrong time or location. These weaknesses in the procurement process have a cascade effect across the entire project. Incorrect materials and delivery delays jeopardise work order and resource planning, which damages project schedules and impacts production efficiency, costing time and money.

‘The key to the AVEVA Marine procurement and supply chain strategy is the ability for shipyards to start the procurement process at the design stage and maintain a collaborative exchange of information throughout the project lifecycle...’

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7. Stock and Logistics Business Requirements The primary interface between procurement and production is formed by the stock and logistics activities. The stock manager’s warehouse receives materials, tracks non-conformances and issues material for planned tasks and work packages according to the production schedule. The warehouse administration controls standard activities such as inventory counting, goods return, stock card controls, etc. Coordination and visibility of the different functional areas throughout the project play an important role in improving production efficiency and meeting project schedules. A clear view of upstream and downstream priorities is vital to enable the stock manager to synchronize activities with the project, and deliver the right materials at the right time. Operational Realities In reality, it is unusual for the stock manager to have a broad view of planning, procurement and production priorities. The warehouse is typically isolated from project planning, making it difficult to guarantee that the right material will be available at the right time for production work orders. With no structured interface between stock and planning, daily planning and re-planning activities are performed with no consideration of material availability. From a warehouse perspective, there is also a complete lack of visibility between issued material and production operations, greatly impairing overall project flexibility. While the warehouse can sometimes be seen as a bottleneck in project execution, it is the lack of coordination with other project areas that lies at the root of this problem. The ability of the warehouse to deliver the right materials at the right time depends entirely on well-established links to procurement and production processes. The consequences of this are significant. Failure of the warehouse to provide the materials to meet work order requirements results in a waste of resources, time and money.

The AVEVA Solution Stock administration within an AVEVA Marine environment means seamless integration with procurement and planning to ensure that material is directed to production in the right quantity at the right time, in accordance with the real-time plan and production schedule. All warehoused goods are tracked, non-conformance is identified, and material attributes are monitored and flagged. A strict stocking workflow registers quality and non-conformance status, identifies missing materials and enables automated material borrowing, as well as recording the physical stock location for all materials. Using a warehouse dispatch view, material requisitions are easily visualised, allowing the warehouse to plan schedules for gathering and issuing material against the active production plans. The seamless integration between stock and production planning enables a dispatch function that provides real-time visibility of material holdings, so that materials are only released to production if resources are available to complete the work order. Providing advanced warehouse management capabilities, integrated with the procurement, planning and production processes, delivers major project benefits.

‘Stock administration within an AVEVA Marine environment means seamless integration with procurement and planning to ensure that material is directed to production in the right quantity at the right time in accordance with the real-time plan and production schedule...’

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8. Production

Business Requirements Management, design, planning, procurement and stock management all culminate in the production process. It is here that the quality and coordination of the previous processes will determine the ultimate productivity of the production environment. A well-managed production infrastructure is characterised by the completion of a vessel that meets all defined quality standards and is delivered on time and within budget. This is the most complex phase of the project, and it is also the phase with the smallest margin of error. Changes, and rework resulting from poor upstream coordination, can have a massive impact on project schedules and can ultimately make the difference between a profitable project and one that makes a loss.

Operational Realities With most ship production taking place in parallel with design and procurement, the management of the production process is a moving target. The production and project directors, together with the shipyard foremen, struggle with the daily realities of the work orders, BOMs, stock allocation, personnel, resource management, and quality tracking. It is not uncommon to see mismatches between design and production planning cause inaccurate or incomplete information to be delivered at the wrong time. Changes forced by uncoordinated project management can impact all areas of the production process from parts manufacture to assembly and pre-outfitting, as well as onboard erection and final outfitting. Lack of integrated information results in delayed or incorrect executive decisions that will almost certainly exacerbate scheduling and resource conflicts. The consequences are schedule delays and unplanned rework at the most expensive and disruptive point of the project. The AVEVA Solution The benefits of AVEVA’s integrated shipbuilding solution are clearly demonstrated when faced with the complexities of the production process. AVEVA enables an efficient production environment by providing the right information at the right time through consistent coordination with design, quality control, logistics and production planning. Having the right information at all levels of management means that shipyards have the accurate BOMs and managed stock they need to meet assembly and outfitting requirements without delays, missing material, or expensive rework. Tight integration between design, material and production planning supports the most ambitious building strategies including palletising, pre-outfitting and block painting (with hotspot works control), etc. Easy online access to any ship documentation, from production locations anywhere in the world, reduces the time spent looking for information and the risk of out-of-date data. Modifications are tracked and analysed for design and material impact before being validated, mitigating disruption across the production stages. Object status and document versioning guarantee that the latest information is available throughout the shipyard, improving production quality. The measurable benefit of a marine solution that is integrated with all aspects of the shipbuilding process explains why hundreds of shipyards around the world rely on AVEVA to reduce production risk and improve business profitability.

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9. Commissioning and Delivery Business Requirements As the last phase of the shipbuilding process, commissioning and delivery are important to successful and timely project completion. Comprising both physical inspection and the delivery of process, supplier and certification documentation, commissioning and delivery represent the final test of any shipyard’s information management system. An optimised delivery process is vital to the project, to ensure that required documentation is created and maintained throughout the lifecycle. A professional delivery can help to secure prompt final payment, while leaving a lasting and positive impression with the owner, laying the groundwork for future contract opportunities. Operational Realities With many deliverables at the end of the fabrication process, commissioning and delivery are complex and time consuming, and often suffer from late execution of production tasks as delivery deadlines rapidly approach. Missing, incomplete, inaccurate and inconsistent information all contribute to delays in the commissioning and delivery process. The more disconnected this phase is from the project process, the more time consuming and costly it can be. Ultimately, the result is two very expensive situations that shipbuilders should seek to avoid: extended sea trials and longer time at the outfitting quay.

The AVEVA Solution The integrated nature of the AVEVA shipbuilding solution provides the consistent management of production schedules, design specifications, vendor information and material control to allow smooth and efficient commissioning and delivery. All critical documentation and certifications are captured from the beginning of the project and managed throughout the entire lifecycle. This information-centric approach provides rapid access to critical information, the ability to check, early in the project, for incomplete or inconsistent data, and the flexibility to reformat and repurpose documentation as demanded by the delivery process.

Badly planned commissioning activities can also force yards to employ expensive specialists at short notice to assist with the execution of delivery requirements. Rather than preparing for the delivery of the vessel throughout the project, many shipyards find themselves under great pressure to compile the requisite documents against a backdrop of looming deadlines.

The strong technical dependencies between design, production and commissioning are fully retained, regardless of shipyard and supplier locations around the world. Commissioning and production planning are consistently managed to remove bottlenecks and accelerate the overall delivery process. All essential documentation is classified and managed, to ensure efficient vessel certification and complete handover to the shipowner.

‘AVEVA integrated shipbuilding enables efficient professional commissioning and maintenance of all ship systems...’

The integrated shipbuilding environment also provides dramatic improvements in the overall quality of the technical information delivered to owners and their maintenance teams. For example, relationships between schematic data, 3D routing, material and vendor specifications can be fully visualized and quickly understood, cutting the cost, time and disruption of on-board maintenance activities. AVEVA integrated shipbuilding enables the efficient professional commissioning and maintenance of all ship systems, by providing access to consistent, quality engineering information throughout the managed commissioning, production planning and material processes.

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10.The Extended Shipyard Business Requirements One of the most significant changes in the shipbuilding industry over the last two decades has been the specialisation and globalisation of shipyards and suppliers. As these specialists improve product efficiencies and reduce costs, a growing number of major vessel projects rely on them for strategic components and assemblies. The result is the relentless rise of outsourcing and the increasing need to establish and maintain effective working relationships with suppliers around the globe. Likewise, on the design side, the use of subcontracting design companies or agencies has grown impressively. These organisations are not delivering physical product, so the logistics of the relationship are relatively straightforward, but their precious ‘cargo’ - data - can be massively devalued by failure to deliver it properly into the world of production and planning, and manage it in an integrated way thereafter. The shipyard is no longer isolated within a single site, but must now extend and integrate its supply and management activities across other companies in distributed locations. The ability to take full advantage of the benefits offered by today’s global shipbuilding industry can make the difference between success and failure. The modern shipyard needs new tools and resources to create an efficient and effective extended shipyard. Operational Realities Shipyards have been dealing with global suppliers for decades, but the services, technology and assemblies being provided now demand a much higher degree of integration throughout the design, construction and delivery process. Suppliers are no longer simply shipping raw materials, but complete subsystems which must be tightly coordinated with key project milestones and technical certifications. Unfortunately, many shipyards do not have the tools and resources they need to track, control and manage this increasingly complex process. The result can be delays, cost overruns, and technical incompatibilities that can cause disruptive rework that jeopardises compliance with delivery specifications.

The AVEVA Solution AVEVA’s integrated marine solution provides the industry’s most comprehensive set of tools for today’s extended shipyard. All activities, including those from global suppliers, are viewed and managed using the same resources. Supplier work orders are integrated into the design, procurement, production and delivery process. Service level agreements, technical specifications and certifications are managed and controlled independently of geographical considerations. Third-party suppliers are no longer a ‘black box’ on the schedule, but a fully integrated part of the total project plan. AVEVA provides the collaborative infrastructure necessary for all stakeholders to exchange key documents and information. Ship owners and classification societies can view plans and delivery schedules to monitor the process and submit comments. Suppliers can monitor project schedules and design information to ensure delivery timing and technical compatibility. Through AVEVA’s unique and powerful Global technology, 3D design and schematic information can be worked on and viewed from anywhere around the world. Status reports can be shared with the management and delivery teams to identify scheduling conflicts and technical exceptions early in the process. Linking procurement, electronic tendering and logistics, enables the support of ‘virtual supply‘, where critical documentation for delivered equipment can be submitted electronically and automatically associated with the vessel model. AVEVA Global also translates the sharing of information into hard economic benefit. Work can be allocated to the most cost-effective locations; work centres can be added or removed as the project progresses, to use capacity wherever it exists; the uploading and downloading of project files to FTP sites is eliminated, reducing project administration costs. This technology helps organisations manage onsite and extended activities in a single, shared system, in hundreds of projects across the world.

More often than not, contracts with global suppliers are treated as separate and external activities by project and senior management to the extent that these activities are seen as a ‘black box‘ on the overall project schedule. There is no ability to apply the same level of management and oversight to extended shipyard activities as is applied to onsite activities. The inability to create a fully integrated extended shipyard environment compromises the predictability, efficiency and quality of vessel projects.

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11. Summary The combination of AVEVA NET, AVEVA Marine and AVEVA MARS comprises a powerful suite of applications that create a unique opportunity for AVEVA customers to improve quality, mitigate risk and reduce production costs. The complex and competitive ship construction industry demands software solutions that span the entire range of business areas found throughout the shipyard and only AVEVA can deliver a comprehensive integrated shipyard offering. The AVEVA integrated shipyard delivers measurable benefits for executive management, sales, design and engineering, logistics and production. Each role has a very specific set of requirements that can only be met with solutions developed for the marine industry, by marine experts. The AVEVA solution electronically tracks and controls the global exchange of information, provides an unmatched collaborative environment, promotes knowledge management and the reuse of information, secures the availability and delivery of materials, improves logistics, and handles complex supply chains between different partners around the world. Fieldproven software, supported by experienced professionals with decades of marine expertise, explains why the world’s leading ship and offshore suppliers rely on AVEVA’s integrated shipyard solutions.

‘The AVEVA integrated shipyard delivers measurable benefits for executive management, sales, design and engineering, logistic and production. Each role has a very specific set of requirements that can only be met with solutions developed for the marine industry, by marine experts...’ Page 14

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