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Production systems

We design and install Synchronized TACT Production: a single visible beat, back-calculated from the delivery date and built up from the working teams’ own procedures, with engineering, procurement and production all working to it.

One beat for the whole yard, from steel cutting to sea trial.

When to call us

You may recognize these.

  • Work waits on drawings or material that arrive late.
  • Trades collide in the same space, and crews remobilize every shift.
  • The dock swings between peak load and idleness.
  • Recutting and rework are passed from one stage to the next.

What we do

The work, step by step

  1. 01

    TACT line design

    Panel and curved-block lines, grand-module assembly and the dock set to one beat, each station sized to what it must deliver every day.

  2. 02

    Zone breakdown and team procedures

    Work divided into zones a single team can control, with Detailed Work Procedures written by the teams themselves.

  3. 03

    EPP integration and design for production

    Engineering and procurement subordinated to the production beat, so that the quantity of work itself shrinks.

  4. 04

    Accuracy control

    Dimensions held upstream so that blocks, even 400-tonne mega-blocks, are erected in a single setting.

  5. 05

    Grand modulization

    Dock work moved upstream into a grand-module factory, so the dock becomes a place of integration, not construction.

The method behind it
TACTDetailed Work Procedure (DWP)EPP IntegrationGrand modulizationOne-time settingThe approach →

Evidence

Where it has been done

12→8weeks of dock cycle per ship, dock man-hours halvedDaewoo Okpo, 1991−50%blocks per VLCC through design for production; scaffolding −60%Daewoo Okpo, early 1990sTACTsystem co-developed within an Odense-led production-logistics programmeBaltija Shipyard, Lithuania, 2005–2006

How we usually engage

Often a project recovery on one line or one ship, then a yard transformation.

Ways to work with us →
Other service areasShipyard turnaroundRecovering a yard that is late, losing money, or both, with the docks, cranes and people it already has.Naval shipbuilding and MRORefit, repair and newbuilding for navies: zone-based planning, parallel integration and the navy as a partner.People and organizationForemen who run their own teams, managers present on the floor, and a school that keeps the basics alive.

Tell us about your yard.

Where it is today, where it needs to be, and by when. We will say plainly whether we can help.

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