A novel approach for planning of shipbuilding processes

Shipbuilding is acknowledged as an uncertain, complex, and unique industrial effort that yields massive products consisting of numerous parts vulnerable to unexpected events. The industry also dominated by customer requirements through designs tailor-made for a specific ship. Planning in shipbuilding therefore considered formidable process. Consequently, many studies have been conducted develop planning framework the efficiently handle Yet none these are deemed substantial enough be regarded holistic, straightforward, well-accepted, compatible with nature shipbuilding. This study important contribution presenting novel, hybrid, integrated general-purpose applicable all processes. novel method exploits historical ship construction scheduling data, synthesizing hierarchical planning, dynamic scheduling, discrete-event simulation, which validated empirical this paper.