Improved Shipyard Control With ToMaS (Total Management System)

Abstract

Abstract : In common with any business enterprise, the tasks of management in a shipyard may be specified within three levels: 1. The strategic level - to establish objectives for the shipyard. 2. The tactical level - to translate the shipyard's objectives into plans, schedules and budgets. 3. The operational level - to coordinate and control the shipyard's operations against plans, schedules and budgets. For objective management to be of benefit to the shipyard, there must be continual and critical review and modification of the shipyard's strategy and tactics, the questions which need to be answered being: 1. Knowing the external environment and the shipyard's past performances, what are the realistic alternative strategies? 2. Which of these alternative strategies provides the best achievable goal for the shipyard? 3. What is the most cost effective application of the shipyard's resources to achieve this goal? 4. How can we organize the work content at the operational level within this application of the shipyard's resources? This concept of objective management with its three levels in general dictates the transverse levels in a shipyard's organizational structure and since we have concluded that continual and critical review and modification of strategy and tactic is essential. We further conclude that the organizational structure must be fluid, that is a cost effective shipyard at any time will be organized to achieve its current objectives.