Two-Step Manufacturing Process Measurement Model Using Qualitative and Quantitative Data—A Case of Newbuilding Dry-Docking

Abstract

Newbuilding dry-docking is a part of the shipbuilding manufacturing process, common for vessels built on slipways. The subject of this research is steel-built vessels intended for non-restricted sea-going navigation. Based on former experience, the necessity of the dry-docking projects measurement has been noted as a managerial tool for performance estimation and project comparison. The dry-docking project is a complex task which includes the first self-propelled sea passage and the transfer of the manufacturing process to a remote place. The dry-docking result is a surveyed and coated vessel ready for sea trials and five-year service until the next dry-docking. This paper deals with a model which enables process measurement using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method for qualitative data related to the dry-docking places and data envelopment analysis (DEA) for quantitative data related to the vessels’ technical and cost data. The modelled data are collected from the completed dry-dockings, and the twenty-nine studied vessels represent the decision-making units (DMU) used in two-step process measurement calculations. The obtained results can distinguish the efficient DMUs, which create an efficient frontier as benchmarks or “the best practice units” in the given DMU set. For the non-efficient DMUs, the efficiency score and rate of improvements needed to reach the efficient frontier will be calculated, and the sources of inefficiency will be recognized.