Port Machinery

Workshop plans rely heavily on experience and manual spreadsheets. They are coarse and change frequently, while design data and material arrivals often trigger stoppages, material shortages or resource conflicts.

Pre-nesting causes the number of steel plate specifications and plate-turning operations to balloon. Plate kitting still has room to improve, remnant reuse lacks data support, and high WIP inventories of parts and blocks tie up substantial capital and floor space.

Outsourced labour leaves information fragmented across cutting, machining, assembly, welding and other stations. Operators depend on paper drawings and verbal communication, making real-time tasks, process parameters and exception feedback hard to obtain and weakening coordination between processes.

Equipment status, energy use, quality and progress are reported manually, making data late and unreliable. Management cannot see actual workshop capacity or bottlenecks in real time.

Design, manufacturing, material distribution and planning teams exchange information through email or meetings. Changes are communicated late and coordination costs remain high.