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Shipbuilding Industry Benefits Using ProModel's Shipyard AI Tool
Shipbuilding is a long and highly complex process, presenting shipyards with multiple challenges including:
- Multiple hull configurations / multiple vessels under construction simultaneously
- Limited space greatly impacted by changes in schedules and fabrication plans
- Labor intensive planning activities
- A constant drive to reduce operational expenses and increase “bottom line” results
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.
Ship Industry Customers
| Military • NAVAIR • Naval Special Warfare Command • NAVSEA |
Tier 1 • Irving Shipbuilding • Ingalls Shipbuilding • Newport News Shipbuilding • Bath Iron Works • GD NASSCO |
Tier 2 • Mercury Marine • Northrop Grumman Ship Systems • Rolls-Royce • Textron Marine and Land Systems |
- Maximize Throughput to Improve Bottom Line Results
- Automated Foot-Printing
- Built-In, Optimization-Based Decision Making
- Extensive Map Editor - Automated Data Updates
- Dynamic Continuous Capacity Planning
- Intuitive Multi-User Distributed Environment
- Direct Interactive Access Through Mobile Devices
- Welding line validation and optimization
- Pipe Shop Modeling and process improvement
- Unit construction and erection optimization
- Capital Equipment Justification and Validation
- Supply Chain design and testing
- Support and validation of Lean Six Sigma Initiatives
- Enablement of continuous process improvement programs
- Optimize shipyard work flows increasing throughput by eliminating bottle necks.
- Capture office processes and evaluate improvement ideas
- Rapidly create and support PI teams and achieve rapid ROIs on starter projects at minimal risk to the organization.
Product Use Cases
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.
- Allocate Construction Space over Time
Auto lay-down map over time and lift schedule. Saves time and cost associated with manual footprinting - Data from integrated systems or analysts provides information to the system when unit construction may be running late.
- The system will alert and visualize schedule slips and their downstream impact.
- Various mitigation options are available to the analyst (in coordination with operations) by:
- Hand-editing locations and timings, or
- Allowing system to suggest mitigations
Schedule
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
Shop Loading
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.
- Welding line validation and optimization
- Pipe Shop Modeling and process improvement
- Unit construction and erection optimization
- Capital Equipment Justification and Validation
- Supply Chain design and testing
Process Optimization
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:
- Support and validation of Lean Six Sigma Initiatives
- Enablement of continuous process improvement programs
- Optimize shipyard work flows increasing throughput by eliminating bottle necks.
- Capture office processes and evaluate improvement ideas
- Rapidly create and support PI teams and achieve rapid ROIs on starter projects at minimal risk to the organization.
CI LSS Enablement
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.
- ProModel Corporation Resume for the Shipbuilding Industry
- Ingalls Develops Automated Unit Lay-Down ‘Advisor’ with Capacity Planning Tool - theSignal Magazine
- Irving Shipbuilding Capacity Planning and Shop Floor Foot-Printing Application Success Story
- Shipyard AI Product Summary Brochure
- Shipyard AI Product Summary Video
- Mobile Yard Inspector Application
- ProModel Custom Development Capability
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