Process improvement of Damen Shipyards Galati pre-processing

Merging two pre-processing facilities by implementing Lean Manufacturing

Master thesis (2018)

Authors

C.T. van Ekeren Mechanical Engineering

Contributors

J.F.J. Pruyn (supervisor 1)
C.F.D. Hoogendoorn (supervisor 1)
J.J. Hopman (supervisor 2)
R. Binnekamp (supervisor 2)
H. Polinder (supervisor 2)
Faculty
Mechanical Engineering
Copyright: © 2018 Kees van Ekeren
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Published Date

23-08-2018

Language

English

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Faculty

Mechanical Engineering

Abstract

An improvement study to the pre-processing process of Damen Shipyards Galati (DSGa) is performed since benchmark analysis shows that the current pre-processing process underperforms, compared to industry peers. The objective is to increase DSGa’s throughput and decrease space utilisation, such that pre-processing facilities S1 and S1a can be merged into S1a and DSGa meets the industry ‘standard’. Lean Manufacturing shows the potential to enable improvement and is adopted to initiate process redesign. The Lean principles drive the approach of this study, which studies the ‘current state’, defines improvement strategies and implements the strategies in ‘future states’. Finally quantitative analysis shows that the objective is met.