在建造船舶时，供应商能够有效地提供零部件和设备对后续的生产效率至关重要。为了优化这一过程，Boskalis、Van Oord、皇家IHC和DAMEN船厂集团着手合作，项目称为“统一海事数据标准”。正如达门战略和业务转型总监Koen Burgers所说，该项目对海事供应链带来的优化将不仅限于生产，还贯穿船舶的整个生命周期。
造船业实际上在数据的使用上相对落后，目前数据处理还是一个非常人工的过程，这导致我们的供应链中有很多所谓的交易成本。
“现在我们必须联系供应商来获取我们需要的信息，然后手动将这些信息输入到我们的系统中。然而，通过适当地管理这个数据流，通过使用行业标准数据库，我们可以摆脱许多无效的管理过程。”在2017年Europort期间，达门和其他合作伙伴开始了试点项目，从15家大批量供货的常规供应商开始，包括过去三年订购的产品数据。有关信息由供应商放在数据库中，我们从数据库中提取这些信息，已包含了数百万种不同产品的数据。
在改进数据处理后，我们还可以追踪客户船上的每个单独的部件或组件。这意味着在船舶的整个生命周期中，服务和部件供应将更加有效。
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When building a ship, the efficient supply of parts and equipment from suppliers is paramount to the subsequent efficiency of production. With the aim to optimise this part of theprocess, Boskalis, Van Oord, Royal IHC and Damen Shipyards Group have set up a cooperative initiative called the One Maritime Data Standard. As Koen Burgers, Damen Director Strategy and Business Transformation, and Paul Reekers, Damen Manager Standards and Documentation, explain, the impact of this project on the maritime supply chain will optimise not only production, but also the whole life cycle of a ship.
UNDERSTANDING THE STATUS QUO
The motivation forsetting up this initiative lies in the fact that businesses are becoming more and more data-driven. “The use of data in companies’ processes is increasing,” begins Koen.
However, compared to the rest of the world, the shipbuilding industry is actually lagging behind. Data processing is currently very much a manual process.
“This causes a lot of so-called transaction costs within our supply chain. Damen experiences this as well as the other partners of this initiative: Royal IHC, Van Oord and Boskalis. And, of course, this involves the hundreds of equipment suppliers within the maritime sector.”
Focusing initially on the supply chain – the purchase and supply of parts and equipment – Koen highlights the goals of theinitiative. “What happens now is that we would have to contact a supplier to get the information that we need and then manually enter that information intoour system. However, by proper management of this data stream, by using an industry standard database, we can get rid of many of the administrative processes that are inefficient.”
THE PILOT PROJECT
Faced with the multitude of suppliers involved in the maritime industry, the pilot project setup during the 2017 edition of Europort by Damen, Royal IHC, Van Oord and Boskalis took a more realistic approach. Paul explains: “We started off with the suppliers that deliver relatively large quantities of products on a regular basis. This produced a list of 15 companies.”
“The pilot project includes article data of products that we have ordered from suppliers in the last three years,” he adds.
Here, notes Paul, it is important to differentiate between product information and article information. “If you are talking about a light bulb, the product information describes details such as dimensions, the wattage and weight. The article information includes details about the supplier, delivery time and price. For the supply chain optimisation, article information is where benefits of using the external database arequickly seen, therefore we focus on that in the pilot.”
GLOBAL EFFECTS
How will the findings of the pilot project affect the process management of the maritime industry? “Collaboration drives performance,” says Koen. “Systems like this have existed for a long time in the automotive industry, where it’s simply not possible to supply something without having data coupling. For us in the shipbuilding industry, we are workingtogether with our suppliers to deliver a better product, the quality of which depends on the strength of this relationship. By having a shared ambition to reduce the costs and increase performance within the supply chain, we can increase value for our clients. In this case administrative burden will decrease, we have information readily available and we can increase our responsiveness.”
A notable point about the One Maritime Data Standard initiative is that it stems solely from the Dutch maritime sector. “At the moment there is no worldwide standard,” says Paul. “This is why we are embracing it in order to expand the concept to the wider maritime industry.This will influence the worldwide position of all four participants as well as the whole maritime sector.”
THE NEXT STEP
In closing, Koen is keen to demonstrate the greater potential of improved data handling. “This starts off with the correctand efficient functioning of our supply chain, but it goes much wider than that. Look at the implications for our clients. By improving the integrationwith our suppliers, we can track and trace every individual part or component that a client has on-board a vessel. This means that the service provision and parts supply during the entire lifecycle of the ship will be much more efficient.
The One Maritime Data Standard project uses 2BA and ETIM as independent database providers.These use European standards for classification and are also well established.The 2BA database, for example, was originally set up for the installation and electro-technical sector and now contains data of millions of different products.
