Single Point of Truth for Capacity Planning

Irving Shipbuilding recently completed construction on a world-class fabrication facility in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The modernized Halifax Shipyard, one of the largest single undercover shipbuilding facilities in the world, ensures production efforts are no longer affected by the adverse weather Atlantic Canada can experience.

Halifax Shipyard’s previous planning system presented several shortcomings that did not allow the facility to reach its full potential, including:

• Large amounts of manual effort were needed to maintain plans and conduct analyses
• A “single source of truth” did not exist for capacity planning and shop floor foot-printing
• System was “Static” and could not facilitate the desired real-time “Dynamic” capabilities
• Original floorplan and capacity planning used a combination of several tools with each system acting as an “island of information” with no interconnectivity

Irving Shipbuilding engaged with BigBear.ai to help visualize and analyze multiple production scenarios and optimize the shipyard footprint, schedules, and throughput to improve its bottom line. Download the case study to learn how.