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Worldwide Shipbuilding Productivity Status and Trends
Worldwide Shipbuilding Productivity Status and Trends
Worldwide Shipbuilding Productivity Status and Trends
WORLDWIDE SHIPBUILDING
PRODUCTIVITY STATUS AND
TRENDS
Thomas Lamb
Emeritus Research Scientist and Adjunct Professor
Innovative Marine Product Development, LLC
425 742 2348
nalamb@umich.edu
SHIPBUILDING RESEARCH
• Different countries use different approaches.
• In Japan there is considerable cooperation between
all shipyards to develop basic research and then
groups of shipyards work together to implement it –
for example CIM.
• Korean shipbuilders are so large that they do not
cooperate.
• European shipbuilders work together through joint
EU funded programs.
• I will focus on shipbuilding productivity research.
PRODUCTIVITY
• It can be seen that shipbuilding productivity
varies from company to company and country
to country.
PRODUCTIVITY (Continued)
• What is PRODUCTIVITY?
• How is it measured?
• How can it be compared across industries and
countries?
• If we can not answer any of these questions we
cannot measure or compare our performance with
others at a specific time or ourself over time.
• Therefore there has been research into productivity
in most industries for many years
PRODUCTIVITY (Continued)
• Productivity is the amount of output achieved for a
given amount of input.
• The definition is easy, measuring it is not.
• Input could be materials, manpower and energy.
• Problem is that it is desirable to have a
dimensionless measure.
• This can be achieved by converting all output and
input to dollars.
• However, there are useful Productivity Metrics that
are not dimensionless
PRODUCTIVITY (Continued)
• The continuing challenge that most businesses face for the
foreseeable future is improving productivity.
• It is a broad strategic issue. As such it must be of concern
to government, management, and workers.
• However, it is management’s responsibility to set and take
the necessary action to accomplish productivity goals.
• In the 1940s and 1950s, the measurement of productivity
focused on output, or the production of as much as possible
for a given input.
• In the 1960s and 1970s, quantity was no longer as
important as efficiency, or production at lowest cost.
• Today, productivity is effectiveness, which is a combination
of right product, right time, quality, and efficiency.
PRODUCTIVITY (Continued)
• Productivity focus is usually on direct labor, but
management, engineering and indirect labor
productivity has biggest leverage for improvement.
• Must develop ways of measuring management,
engineering and indirect productivity.
• Labor productivity is a combination of labor
performance, labor utilization, process efficiency,
and planning effectiveness.
• Of the four, only the first one is directly controlled
by the worker.
• The other three offer the greatest potential for
productivity improvement and are solely dependent
on management.
October 22-26, 2007 XX COPINAVAL RESEARCH INTO SHIBUILDING PRODUCTIVITY 8
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
DEPARTMENT OF NAVAL ARCHITECTURE AND MARINE ENGINEERING
SHIPBUILDING PRODUCTIVITY
• Research has shown that the main reason for
shipbuilding low productivity was inadequate work
organization.
PRODUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT
• A metric that could be called Overall Productivity is:
Annual Sales ($)/Cost of Doing Business ($)
where cost of doing business includes labor, fringe
benefits, overhead, material, utilities, facility and
capital.
• Prefer to call this Business Transformation Efficiency
• Both of these measures can be obtained from a
company’s annual financial report
• However, as it includes many factors it is difficult to
uses as a apple to apple comparison metric
PRODUCTIVITY METRICS
• Before performing any research into productivity it is
necessary to develop an acceptable Productivity Metric.
• There is no universally accepted productivity metric.
• A metric should be based on a readily available parameter.
• Potential candidates for shipbuilding are Steel Weight,
Lightship Weight, Displacement, and Gross Tonnage.
• The first four are all weights and would give similar results.
The final candidate is a volume.
• Research and Experience has shown that weights are not a
good parameter on which to base a productivity metric and
volume fairs little better.
GROSS TONNAGE
GT = K1 x V
Cgt = A x GTB
WHAT IS TECHNOLOGY
• Technology is the knowledge and processes used to
provide products for human use.
• Technology is thinkware, software and hardware as well
as their application processes.
• In shipbuilding it is the practices used to design and build
ships and other marine products.
• Advanced technology shipbuilding is associated with
production oriented design, block construction, very short
berth erection times and ships that are virtually complete
at launch.
• Advanced technology alone does not assure the
production of internationally competitive ships.
A. Steelwork Production
B. Outfit Production
C. Other Pre-erection
D. Ship Construction & Outfit Installation
E. Layout & Environment
F. Facilities
G. Design, Drafting, Production Engineering &
Lofting
H. Organization & Operating Systems
TECHNOLOGY BENCHMARK
Element Typical Component Values
Europe Japan Korea China
A. Steelwork Production 2.91 3.9 3.4 2.8
B. Outfit Production 3.30 4.2 4.0 3.5
C. Other Pre-Erection 3.83 4.3 4.0 3.2
D. Ship construction 3.18 4.5 3.98 3.1
E. Layout & environment 2.94 4.0 3.31 2.5
G. Design, Drafting, etc. 3.45 5.0 4.33 3.5
H. Organization/ Operating 4.04 5.0 4.67 2.5
PRODUCTIVITY PREDICTIONS
A shipbuilding productivity predictor based on readily
available shipyard characteristics was developed and has
been modified to suit new CCGT and the shipyards visited
for this project as follows:
as naval ships.
ST = Ships delivered/Ship types, is a parameter that takes into account the
number of total ships built compared to number of “series” ships built
over
a given time, such as three years.
200
PRODUCTIVITY MH/SCGT
EUROPE
JAPAN
150 KOREA
CHINA
CRUISE SHIPS
100 FMI ORIG CC
FMI NEW SCGT
TL MOD FMI
50
0
0 1 2 3 4 5 6
TECHNOLOGY (BEST PRACTICE) LEVEL
DISECONOMIES OF SCALE
ECONOMY
DISECONOMY OF SCALE
OF SCALE
CCGTMH
PTI
The production profile indicated as 1,2,3 means the first three vessel of a
series of similar ships and CCGT correction factor for this situation is
equivalent to 0,91.
The production profile 1,1,1 means that the shipyard is building different
ships, or on other words, that series production is not being considered.
For this situation there is no corre
ction to be made and the CCGT factor equals 1.
The production profile 11,12,13 means that the shipyard is building the
11th, 12th and 13th vessels of a series of similar ships and the CCGT is
equivalent to 0,64.
CCGTMH
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Transportation, April 1987
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