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Porsche Consulting takes first place with shipbuilding project
“Best of Consulting 2014” award for competitive strategy
Stuttgart/Düsseldorf.
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Eberhard Weiblen, Chairman of the
The consultants were hired to shorten the time needed to build cruise ships and to raise productivity. To achieve these aims, a professional process management system and a lean order-processing system were introduced which follow examples set by the automobile industry. Individual sections and blocks now “flow” into the construction dock based on a fishbone principle and are assembled on a modular basis like Lego blocks. This makes the processes highly parallel and saves a considerable amount of time. The shipyard has now also integrated its many suppliers into the same tact in order for the construction components to arrive precisely when they are needed. This new construction process assumes that the development staff are finished with their design work considerably earlier than a sequential construction strategy would require. The development processes were therefore also streamlined, and described and synchronized anew to meet the production requirements.
Meyer Werft now runs its own professional continuous improvement process (CIP) that puts improvement projects into practice throughout the shipyard. The employees are trained and qualified at a newly established academy. As a result, Meyer Werft is now able to implement larger projects and new developments in shorter periods of time – despite higher levels of complexity. This can be measured on the throughput times at the construction dock. Despite larger dimensions, cruise ship construction times dropped from nine to six months in the period from 2009 to 2013.
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10/28/2014
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