Chantiers de l’Atlantique

Optimise cycles with traceability gains

Example of Chantiers de l’Atlantique

100-hectare site

The challenges:

Working in a situation presenting major risks in terms of:

• The size of the work site and constant evolution
• Products (dangerous, small, heavy, voluminous)
• Joint activity
• Handling vehicles (cranes, elevating platforms, forklift trucks, etc.)
• Crossover of activities and flows (horizontally and vertically)

Adapting resources to the load on a continuous flow basis to keep the production tool moving, managing authorisations, knowledge and application of site and workpost safety rules.

The resources:

Handling equipment tailored to the services: tower crane, crane on wheels, IS for traceability, planning of lifting operations, monitoring of action on a collaborative platform (anomalies, preventive and corrective action, document management, etc.).

Services:

• Taking over products before boarding
• Boarding up to the handling location anywhere on the site and in the ship
• Managing of boarding resources: freight elevators, lifts, cranes, telescopic trucks.

QHSE:

Quality assurance plan, procedures, prevention plan, safety inspection, HSE book, internal audits, information sheets, management of accident near-misses, etc.

File invariants:

• High co-activity, lack of forecasts.

Progress plan objectives:

• Reduce the risk of accidents
• Optimise cycles
• Gain in traceability

Methodology:

• Lean approach
• Shared timing
• Action plan shared with the customer

Action taken via the action plan:

• Setup of a safety approach: audits on lifting issues, specific zoning for manoeuvring, identification of manoeuvre supervisors, etc.
• Permanent optimisation of paths through the ship
• Scheduling of boarding
• Upgrade of transport vehicles

• Increase in operator safety
• Reduction of procedures