Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.21278/brod74402

A novel approach for planning of shipbuilding processes

Aytek Gungor orcid.org/0000-0002-9294-4679 ; Faculty of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Istanbul Technical University
Yalcin Unsan orcid.org/0000-0003-1539-376X ; Faculty of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Istanbul Technical University
Baris Barlas orcid.org/0000-0002-5846-2369 ; Faculty of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering, Istanbul Technical University

Abstract

Shipbuilding is acknowledged as an uncertain, complex, and unique industrial effort that yields massive products consisting of numerous parts and is vulnerable to unexpected events. The industry is also dominated by customer requirements through designs tailor-made for a specific ship. Planning in shipbuilding is therefore considered a formidable process. Consequently, many studies have been conducted to develop a planning framework for the industry to efficiently handle planning process. Yet none of these studies are deemed substantial enough to be regarded as holistic, straightforward, well-accepted, and compatible with the nature of shipbuilding. This study is therefore an important contribution by presenting a novel, hybrid, and integrated general-purpose planning framework applicable to all shipbuilding processes. The novel method exploits historical ship construction scheduling data, synthesizing hierarchical planning, dynamic scheduling, and discrete-event simulation, which is validated through an empirical study in this paper.

Keywords

shipbuilding; planning; scheduling; multi-agent systems; discrete-event simulation

Hrčak ID:

306883

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/306883

Publication date:

1.9.2023.

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