Preparation of a shipyard's production planning

Shipyards are the companies that have several workers in production period. The product of the shipyards is marine vehicles. During the construction period of a vessel, there are different kind of stages that are related with each other. The harmony between these stages is crucial for the completion of a vessel. Due to the increase in the quantity of the produced vessels, there is a necessity for production planning in shipyards. The production type in the shipyards is a project management and Gantt chart, CPM, and PERT methods are used for planning as a project management techniques. Shipyard management should direct the practices of all these plans, follow the production period and take all necessary precautions if required. In this thesis, this subject is dealt with a sample of platform supply vessel hull and production stages are defined. In the light of block production plan of the vessel, each activities are calculated as time and the delivery time of the vessel is defined by using CPM. In addition to CPM, the delivery time of the vessel is also shown by using Microsoft Project programme.