Shipyard AI®

Unrivaled Shipyard Production Planning and Execution

Shipyards are massive and complex operations with limited flexibility, requiring extreme accuracy and perfect timing. Unforeseen disruptions and resource constraints can lead to missed deadlines, excess costs and smaller margins. BigBear.ai’s Shipyard AI® provides an accurate, flexible, and multi-user technology to optimize capacity planning, while streamlining production flows.

Anticipate and address disruptions proactively, while maximizing labor, resources and schedules to optimize delivery timelines. All on a unified AI-powered platform.

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Challenges for
Shipyards Today

  • Multiple ships under construction simultaneously
  • Limited space with large form factors
  • Limited labor resources
  • Difficulty tracking unit progress
  • Tedious schedule changes and plan modifications
  • No single source of truth

Planning for building ships is an ongoing process that rolls across days, weeks, months, and years. Using BigBear.ai’s shipyard laydown optimization, ensure better space utilization and improved workflows.

With Shipyard AI®, days can become minutes, and scheduling and capacity challenges are more easily solved. Shipyard AI® is built to meet the unique needs of both government and commercial shipyards, ensuring maximum efficiency and operational readiness.

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Automated and Flexible Shipyard Planning

With Shipyard AI®, you can:

  • Publish laydown maps and schedules
  • See where items will be located over time
  • Proactively plan capacity
  • Develop options for early or late unit completion
  • Keep operations efficient and on time
  • Provide visibility to key stakeholders
  • Visualize multiple production scenarios and potential results

From Weeks to Minutes

With Shipyard AI®, it only takes a few days to analyze the impact of new ships, designs, and yard changes–and hours to develop alternative plans and predict the impact across the yard.

And while capturing, analyzing, and communicating capacity changes used to take a week or more, they can now be done instantaneously.

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Maximize Shipbuilding at Every Stage

Integrate disparate data sources for a single view of production activities.

Forecast outcomes to facilitate continuous planning.

Develop detailed reports and capacity information on-demand.

Explore alternative plans to achieve the optimal payoff.

Lay out yard activities for essential planning.

Generate plans for scheduling raw materials and short, medium, and long-term capacity, and more.

Demonstrate impact on future production efforts.

Provide visibility to all stakeholders.

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See Shipyard AI® in action

View a full demonstration to see how BigBear.ai’s Shipyard AI® platform tackles capacity planning, anticipates and addresses disruptions proactively, maximizes labor, resources and schedules, and optimizes delivery timelines for shipbuilding.

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Real World Results

Integrated four facilities into a single production system.

Reduced a planning process timeframe by 400%.

Saved a major US shipyard $975K in scheduling alone during the first year of deployment.

Ready to maximize your build?

Talk to an expert to learn how BigBear.ai’s Shipyard AI® can help your yard make
the most out of your next build, in record time.

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