Management of Ship Repair
Information for Project Control
Professor George Bruce
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Content
• The Nature of Shiprepair
• Contract Preparation
• Contract Control
• Information Systems
• MIS in Ship Repair
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Nature of Shiprepair
• Basic Initial Planning
• Subject to variation
• Emerging Work
• Cancellations
• May require Re-planning
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Ship Building & Ship Repair
New Construction Repair & Conversion
• design driven • existing condition
• known workload • unknown workload
• limited changes • emergent work
• standard tasks • few standards
• fixed price • variable price
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Contract Phase Outputs
• Marketing - good enquiries
• Tendering - realistic estimates
• Negotiation - contracts
• Planning - acceptable costs & schedules
• Purchasing - correct deliveries
• Production - control of operations
• Invoicing - agreed costs prior to sailing
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Contract Preparation
• Set Timescale and Delivery Date
• Estimate Man-hours
• Identify Sub-contract needs
• Use Tariffs where Feasible
• Identify Uncertain Areas
• Review Shipyard Forward Workload
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Contract Control
• Monitor Progress and Spending
• Identify New Resource Requirements
• Review New Contracts
• Review Cancellations
• Maintain the Delivery Date
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Management Information Systems
• Built on a Database
– Identify All Tasks
– Manage the Task Status at all times
• Not Accounting – History
• Not Planning – Variable
• Need is for a New Approach
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MIS in Shiprepair
• Uses a Database
• Manages Tasks within Contracts
• Flexible in Operation
• Follows Contract Life-cycle
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Shiprepair Requirements (1)
• Management of Client Base
• Management of Enquiries
• Estimating
• Production Planning
• Purchasing
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Dynamic Trading Community
Customer 1 Vessel 1
Person 1
Person 2
Vessel 2
Customer 2
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Shiprepair Requirements (2)
• Progress Monitoring
• Labour Cost Control
• Invoicing
• Keeping an up to date picture of a rapidly
changing contract situation
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The EPIC system
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The EPIC system
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Hierarchical Data Model
Customer 1 Customer 2
Person 1 Person …
Person 2 Person …
Person … Vessel …
Vessel 1 Vessel …
Vessel … Vessel …
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Poor Interfaces (1)
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Poor Interfaces (2)
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‘Waterfall’ Development
Requirement
Analysis
Design
Development
Testing
duration : N months
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‘Waterfall’ Problems
what the user
asked for how the
analysts saw it
how the system
was designed
as the programmer
wrote it
what the user
really wanted how it actually
works
with thanks to Dan Tasker
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Iterative Development
Development
Iteration
Acceptance
Testing
duration : 2-8 weeks
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Open Source
• a great enabler
• cheap, reliable software
• example:
– HSqlDb – portable database
– Hibernate – database access
– Avalon – server application
– Alt-Rmi – client / server communication
– Eclipse RCP – client application
– SWT – user interface
– POI – Microsoft document generation
– log4J, dom4j, apache…
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Q&A
George Bruce
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