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Defence
Safinah has worked on numerous Capital Ship Defence projects bringing its vast practical and academic experience, gained from commercial contracts and projects, to benefit the Defence marine market.
Safinah is able to ensure clients are kept abreast of the latest commercial developments, materials and innovations. Advising where, when and how best to implement such advances within the clients own build and maintenance programmes to ensure the greatest level of return on investment.
Over the last 20 years military organisations worldwide have acknowledged that smarter more cost effective ways of building and maintaining Naval vessels is required. The current focus of military programmes is to reduce whole life cost (including build and maintenance).
Such a change in mindset means coatings are no longer viewed as merely a commodity rather now as a critical element which must be considered for any new build and through-life maintenance strategy to be successful.
Case Study: Developing a coating approach for a complex build programme
The Client
A major defence contractor
The Project
To develop solutions for coating issues associated with the largest warships to be built in the UK for many years.
Safinah had to develop common standards, strategies and a cost reduction approach for this four site build programme to achieve both cost and quality requirements.
The Outcome
Safinah developed a common coating strategy to fit with the proposed build strategy and recommended a common set of standards for the work to be carried out.
At the same time, Safinah developed a cost model to show how cost reductions of 30% could be achieved against the base specification without compromising the integrity of the coating process and scheme.
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Safinah was audited by LRQA, in areas covering; "The provision of consultancy services for coating in the marine, protective, offshore and heavy duty markets" and gained accreditation to ISO9001:2000 in March