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Ship yards & construction sites
Safinah provides authoritative, expert advice on the whole chain of activities that links ships, structures, coatings and the environment.
There is a need for a different approach to coating management from design through new build and into operation and maintenance.
Coating activities in shipbuilding, repair and other major construction activities are increasingly creating a bottleneck. Re-work and touch up can account for between 15 - 40% of the total coating budget in shipyards.
This level of re-work would not be tolerated in other production processes.
We are confident that these bottlenecks and re-working can be reduced if coating activities are considered early enough.
Our experience shows that a well planned strategy integrating the coating process into the design and fabrication process can reduce overall man-hours and improve productivity.
Case Study: Reducing cost and man-hours by improving coating process integration
The Client
North American Shipyard
The Project
To assess all aspects of its coating activities at both pre-production and production stages
The Outcome
Safinah carried out a Coating Activity Review and provided immediate feedback.
They developed short/medium and long-term action plans identifying priority areas. The yard was benchmarked against yards worldwide and local competitors in terms of productivity and cost for the overall parameters of performance.
The yard repeated the exercise three years later to check their progress in key areas and to identify a new set of priorities after significant investment in the facility.
The work identified areas of improvement such as major man-hour savings, improvements in the reporting systems using computerised systems and having coating input at the design stage for the development of a suitable coating strategy.
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