Spotlight on delivery in defence: Establishing continuous naval shipbuilding
The Challenge Our customer is building ships in the UK for a UK customer. With the award of the new contract, it has had to rapidly develop an export capability. This includes setting into operation an integrated team spanning two continents with a time zone difference giving minimal overlap of the working day. The technology and data were subject to legal, security and export controls, and had never previously been released outside the local operation. The first delivery was agreed to be a prototyping programme, to trial the new-build factory, to run all the processes and technology, and to create five blocks (around a third of a ship) before starting the full production ship build. The programme had committed to a First Cut Steel milestone for prototyping
Our Approach Project One was asked to structure the technology delivery programme for prototyping: a team of three engaged, with a lead to build the prototyping approach and plan, a project manager to deliver the core complex integrated systems, and a business analyst to manage the key requirements and design. Within six weeks, we had created an 18-month delivery roadmap, clarified and shaped a solution for a key constraint, the separation of the CAD/PLM systems and data from the reference ship, and had gained stakeholder agreement across the many business functions to a new approach. Subsequently, working with the leaders in engineering, the approach and plan for prototyping design separation was developed, and a firm delivery plan baselined. The team led the delivery, constituting the critical path of the entire ship build programme, which achieved the prototyping design separation milestone – on time to the plan that was set nine months earlier. This enabled platform engineering to take on the detail design, and ultimately for Cut Steel to take place when promised.
Our customer has a rich heritage building ships for the Royal Navy. Its most recent product has been developed into a global product and has been successfully sold to allied countries. These geographies have established the programmes charged with taking the shipbuilding capability, processes, technology and ship design from the UK and implementing this in-country. New shipyards are being established and prototyping production of the variants is well under-way.
“Project One has the ability to develop a plan for a complex project and deliver against the agreed long term schedule. They engage well and manage stakeholders with a focus on the outcome and time- frame constraints.” Customer Representative Global Defence Business
A Project One Partnership We were able to bring a small team of consultants with vast experience across the change lifecycle – we advised on the end-to-end implications of approaches and decisions as we built the understanding to inform on the full ship build process. Keeping a cool head, and working with the full range of stakeholders, our team shaped the change, coached stakeholders and built trust in the delivery. Even when the pandemic hit, we managed a seamless transition to remote working. Alongside our continued leadership, we have also handed over key roles to in-house resources to allow our customer to continue independently.
The Value Add and Outcomes Created the prototyping technology delivery plan, built alignment and delivered all key milestones to plan Built confidence and gained the respect of the overseas customers Identified the prototyping design separation challenge, shaped and implemented the solution approach and delivered to the timeline: delivering a federated PLM and separated CAD model for the first time. The prototyping milestones were achieved, and First Cut Steel took place, an important contractual, political and social milestone.
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