Recently, the third product oil tanker P110K-88 built by Dalian Shipbuilding’s Tianjin Base for VITOL company completed the emergency generator inspection and acceptance work on the general assembly platform, achieving a major breakthrough in the integrity of the ship’s general assembly stage. This is another successful practice of Tianjin Base’s deep cultivation of lean management and implementation of the “process forward” management concept.
The emergency generator is the core key equipment of the ship’s emergency power supply system, with strict acceptance standards. The conventional construction process usually waits until after the ship is docked and launched to carry out commissioning and acceptance. To break the bottleneck of the traditional construction model, the General Assembly Department of Tianjin Base took lean management as the core focus, coordinating various specialties to advance synergistically: precisely arranging the full-process construction plan, detailing the time nodes of each process, and implementing full-process quality control for key processes such as painting construction, insulation laying, and cable pulling. All specialties closely cooperated, closed out construction items one by one, completed all construction work in the emergency generator room and supporting areas ahead of schedule, enabling the equipment to reach a complete and deliverable standard at the general assembly stage, achieving early acceptance.
The implementation of acceptance for the emergency generator at the general assembly stage will bring multiple lean values: First, it compresses the overall underwater commissioning cycle after the ship is launched, effectively shortening the overall construction period; Second, it avoids cross-operation scenarios in high-altitude and narrow cabins after the ship is docked, reducing safety hazards caused by high-altitude operations and multi-trade cross operations from the source; Third, it reduces the occupation time of cranes during the launching stage, optimizes manpower allocation, and effectively controls construction costs.
The successful completion of this acceptance not only fully verifies that the general assembly construction technology and integrated construction management and control capabilities of Tianjin Base are becoming increasingly mature, but also accumulates valuable practical experience in standardized construction and pre-acceptance for the subsequent construction of ships in the same series. In the next step, Tianjin Base will continue to deepen the lean management system, continuously expand the coverage scope of process forward, iteratively optimize ship construction processes, steadily improve ship construction efficiency and product construction quality, continuously build high-quality ships, and fully ensure the on-time and high-quality delivery of various types of ships.
