Shipbuilding is a long and highly complex process, presenting shipyards with multiple challenges including:
To help shipyards with these challenges ProModel offers three products, Shipyard AI, ProModel Optimization Suite, and Process Simulator, along with our professional services. Check them out in the product use cases tab below.
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Shipyard AI is a multi-user, “web” enabled application (limited by roles and rights) that uses an optimization-based automated capacity planner to create and publish laydown maps and a schedule indicating where items are to be located over time.
Shipyard AI provides shipyards with unrivaled flexibility and planning capability, enabling management and key stakeholders to visualize multiple production scenarios, analyze potential results and optimize decision making. Benefits and features include:
ProModel Optimization Suite software provides an extremely powerful simulation environment that provides ship builders the ability to optimize their existing processes to meet increases in demand or improve their bottom line performance. ProModel’s advanced technology allows for the construction of a virtual yard that captures the behaviors of production equipment, cells, welding lines or actual vessel assembly. The virtual model then enable the organization to run multiple “what if “scenarios, optimizing their operations and production capabilities.
Typical applications include:
Process Simulator Professional is an application that allows you to quickly transform static flowcharts, VSMs and workflow diagrams into dynamic simulation models that address your organizations analysis and analytic needs. This powerful DES tool is a direct bolt on to existing Visio installations and does not require extensive training and programing expertise. PCS Pro allows you to seamlessly create and run simulation models inside a Visio environment with little to no additional effort and capture work content already created by your organization. It is a simple, predictive, productivity improvement tool that has the potential to increase the results achieved by your shipyard.
Typical applications include:
View
dynamic model output metrics and run "What-Ifs"
in Visio.
Our Shipyard tools can assist in many of the challenges related to scheduling.
In particular Shipyard AI can help to minimize the impact of schedule slippage.
Additionally Shipyard AI contains a module to to allocate construction space over time
Schedule Slip Impact and Mitigation
The shop scheduling “level loading” algorithm seeks to load the shops at full capacity and decrease or eliminate overtime costs ensure unit construction schedule compliance.
ProModel Optimization Suite software provides an extremely powerful simulation environment that provides ship builders the ability to optimize their existing processes to meet increases in demand or improve their bottom line performance. ProModel’s advanced technology allows for the construction of a virtual yard that captures the behaviors of production equipment, cells, welding lines or actual vessel assembly. The virtual model then enable the organization to run multiple “what if “scenarios, optimizing their operations and production capabilities.
Typical applications include:
Continuous Improvement (CI) and Lean Six Sigma (LSS) programs at times do not produce the desired ROI. Our Visio Plug-In Process Simulator technology and LSS certified consultants can help remedy that.
Process Simulator Professional is an application that allows you to quickly transform static flowcharts, VSMs and workflow diagrams into dynamic simulation models that address your organizations analysis and analytic needs. This powerful DES tool is a direct bolt on to existing Visio installations and does not require extensive training and programing expertise. PCS Pro allows you to seamlessly create and run simulation models inside a Visio environment with little to no additional effort and capture work content already created by your organization. It is a simple, predictive, productivity improvement tool that has the potential to increase the results achieved by your shipyard.
Typical applications include:
View
dynamic model output metrics and run "What-Ifs"
in Visio.