A significant impact to economy and environment can be achieved if the ship production process, as the shipyards core business, is considered as designable, changeable and adoptable. This is why we need a project like ANTYARD that is strongly focused to development and application of the advanced methodologies for the ship production process design taking into account production cost effectiveness, energy efficiency and environmental friendliness. Production process design for cost effectiveness implies development and implementation of the process scheduling methodologies and bottom-up production cost models as critical tasks. The former approach requires development of analytical and numerical procedures, while the latter captures development of bottom-up and top-down production cost models. Furthermore, energy consumption model will be developed in order to arrive at the total production energy demand and share as well as to identify energy bottlenecks of the system. The developed models will be verified using shipyards floor data.
Based on that, an environmental friendliness and pollution effects of the ship production process will be analysed enabling carbon footprint evaluation, rational energy and production policy development and implementation of the green ship production concepts. Similar energy demand-supply approaches and research on green ship production concepts are completely absent in the present literature body, while other manufacturing industries strongly promote green production concepts. The research will be implemented at the Laboratory for the improvement of shipbuilding technology at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb. State of the art scientific tools and methodologies will be applied by a competitive, independent and propulsive project team.
Basic project goals:
- to research analytical models of the production system engineering,
- to develop efficient methods for the production system analysis and design,
- to develop and apply lean design,
- to develop production – energy consumption models,
- to develop production costs models,
- to validate developed models using numerical calculations,
- to validate developed models using the shipyard floor data.