Development of shipowners' inspection and acceptance methods during the shipbuilding process
Raiko, Ville (2019)
2019
Konetekniikan DI-tutkinto-ohjelma
Tekniikan ja luonnontieteiden tiedekunta - Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
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2019-10-17
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tuni-201910153882
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tuni-201910153882
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This master’s thesis was made for SHg Consutling Oy about the development of inspection and acceptance methods during shipbuilding. SHg Consuting Oy is a one-person consulting company for project business in the maritime industry. The company’s knowledge is born through long term and comprehensive yard experience, specially in cruise ship building. The general manager has written her doctoral thesis about the ship-building process and production efficiency. The consulting company’s clients are shipyards, shipowners, design offices and maritime turnkey contractors.
The problem of this thesis can be summarized in one research question: What are the best practices to verify shipowner’s requirements concerning the systems specified in the ship contract? The objective was to research what acceptance and inspection methods are being used now in the shipbuilding industry and what theoretical methods are available. There was a theoretical research about the methods available and three main methods are listed in this master’s thesis. Then the methods were compared with product-driven development table.
After the theoretical part, there were some interviews made for the Finnish navy purchasing organization. I visited Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines to learn about their acceptance methods at the Meyer shipyard in Turku, Finland. There was a newbuild that was delivered a few weeks after my visit to the shipyard. This visit provided ample information about how things are done in practice. Also, it was good to see how acceptance methods vary between a commercial shipowner which has several similar boats and the navy that has special purpose vessels of many different kinds and with special demands.
The result of the comparison between methods was to research more the V-model which was then chosen to be used in a sample case to make it more understandable. The V-model can be described as a way of thinking. Further research could be related on how timeline or deadlines could be integrated into the V-model and how the system could be combined with a document database software.
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The problem of this thesis can be summarized in one research question: What are the best practices to verify shipowner’s requirements concerning the systems specified in the ship contract? The objective was to research what acceptance and inspection methods are being used now in the shipbuilding industry and what theoretical methods are available. There was a theoretical research about the methods available and three main methods are listed in this master’s thesis. Then the methods were compared with product-driven development table.
After the theoretical part, there were some interviews made for the Finnish navy purchasing organization. I visited Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines to learn about their acceptance methods at the Meyer shipyard in Turku, Finland. There was a newbuild that was delivered a few weeks after my visit to the shipyard. This visit provided ample information about how things are done in practice. Also, it was good to see how acceptance methods vary between a commercial shipowner which has several similar boats and the navy that has special purpose vessels of many different kinds and with special demands.
The result of the comparison between methods was to research more the V-model which was then chosen to be used in a sample case to make it more understandable. The V-model can be described as a way of thinking. Further research could be related on how timeline or deadlines could be integrated into the V-model and how the system could be combined with a document database software.
The originality of this thesis has been checked using the Turnitin OriginalityCheck service.