Ship Building

Shipbuilding — Case Study

(Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Co., Ltd.)

Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. was founded in 1999. A listed company under China State Shipbuilding Corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of CSSC Holdings Limited, it operates several subsidiaries and holds stakes in many more. Today it ranks among the industry's largest, most modern, most specialised and most influential shipbuilders.

Pain Points

Pain Points

01.

Line automation cannot keep up with production demand

Operating data from the workshop's intelligent control and welding equipment cannot be fed into the management platform; equipment maintenance, energy management and safety production lack digital monitoring, leaving smart manufacturing hardware disconnected from upper-level management software.

02.

Data silos across systems

Operating data from the workshop's intelligent control and welding equipment cannot be fed into the management platform; equipment maintenance, energy management and safety production lack digital monitoring, leaving smart manufacturing hardware disconnected from upper-level management software.

03.

High demand for digitalised production control

Operating data from the workshop's intelligent control and welding equipment cannot be fed into the management platform; equipment maintenance, energy management and safety production lack digital monitoring, leaving smart manufacturing hardware disconnected from upper-level management software.

04.

Workshop logistics is out of step with the production rhythm

Operating data from the workshop's intelligent control and welding equipment cannot be fed into the management platform; equipment maintenance, energy management and safety production lack digital monitoring, leaving smart manufacturing hardware disconnected from upper-level management software.

05.

On-site intelligent equipment is not integrated with management systems

Operating data from the workshop's intelligent control and welding equipment cannot be fed into the management platform; equipment maintenance, energy management and safety production lack digital monitoring, leaving smart manufacturing hardware disconnected from upper-level management software.

Solution

IoT-connected equipment and intelligent logistics link the production and logistics chain
IoT-connected equipment and intelligent logistics link the production and logistics chain
Process-driven layout redesign builds a flexible, coordinated planning system
Process-driven layout redesign builds a flexible, coordinated planning system
A digital control platform plus digital twin enables plant-wide coordinated optimisation
A digital control platform plus digital twin enables plant-wide coordinated optimisation

Solution Value

250 steel plates/day capacity target

Plan execution rate up by about

25 %

Material backlog down by about

20 %

Labour cost down by about

60 %