Joint Project Performs Cost Management in Dutch Shipbuilding

Joint Project Performs Cost Management in Dutch Shipbuilding

The section of Ship Design, Production and Operations of the Technical University of Delft, and the consulting company “costfact systems” will perform a project on cost management in ship- and superyachtbuilding.

The project’s aim is to set up a database with standard cost rates for the main cost drivers in shipbuilding. Additionally, the influence of a shipyard’s individual parameters like company size or production location (in- or outside the Netherlands etc.) on the cost rates should be identified. The gained information will be stored and administrated in a suitable tool that shall enable the attending researchers to set up a “digital cost mock-up” by selecting the relevant groups of the calculation group system and entering the quantity structures within these groups. Based on this quantity structures and the standard cost values of the database, the prospective costs are calculated. By this procedure, the first cost estimation will be available within a split of time and effort, compared to the usual. As soon as more information is available, the standard “default” values can be overwritten by the actual rates in order to precise the calculation. In addition to methodological support, costfact systems will provide the instrument for using the gained data by a shareware part of its cost management software.

The kick-off is planned to take place in the first quarter of 2013. To ensure confidentiality, the subsequent data collection will be bound to the strict and accepted rules of benchmarking procedure.

The section of Ship Design, Production and Operations of the Technical University of Delft, consists of the three research groups Ship Design, Marine Engineering and Ship Production. Within these groups research is mainly performed through PhD projects and commercial projects performed in cooperation with the industry.

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Press Release, December 03, 2012