Ship Building

Under pre-nesting, the pursuit of utilisation drives up the number of purchased specifications and the volume of plate-turning work. Remnants lack ledgers for reuse, while parts and blocks accumulate between processes, tying up capital and space.

Equipment status, welding quality, energy use and physical progress rely on after-the-fact manual reporting, making data late and unreliable. Management cannot see actual capacity loads or bottleneck stations in time to adjust.

Design, manufacturing, material distribution and planning teams exchange information through email or meetings. Design changes arrive late, procurement falls out of step with shop-floor needs, communication costs stay high and rework is frequent.

Docks, slipways, gantry cranes and other critical resources remain fully loaded. Block sizes and weights vary widely, while erection order is tightly constrained by dock schedules and lifting capacity; a delay in one link extends the entire build cycle.

Shipyard conditions make skilled trades difficult to recruit and retain. Skills and experience are passed down informally from master to apprentice, so knowledge leaves with people and operating standards are hard to capture and reuse.