David Shipyard

Success Story: David Shipyard
Country: Canada, Quebec
Industry: Manufacturing

The client

David Shipyard is Canada’s largest and highest capacity shipbuilder.

Founded in 1825 by Captain Alison Davie, it was the beginning of a long and rich history. Since its inception, Davie has built over 700 vessels, from steamboats to diesel-electric oilfield services vessels with advanced dynamic positioning systems and naval vessels with complex combat systems.

Davie has built, converted, repaired and upgraded almost every form of vessel, rig and offshore platform including tankers, bulk carriers, containerships, fishing vessels, ferries, naval vessels and jack-up and semi-submersible drilling and production platforms.

With its strong engineering disciplines and fully integrated, self-sufficient fabrication facilities, Davie’s versatility has enabled it to leverage the best practices and transferable skills acquired from two centuries of shipbuilding to provide products and services for industries including natural resources, rail, hydro-electric and nuclear power, defense and more.

Davie has also been involved with numerous civil construction projects from port terminals to bridge building to the construction of sporting stadiums.

The Challenge

  • Handling documents with various version numbers was taking much time of David Shipyard staff. Managing this task required about 480 hours / month.

  • David Shipyard management wanted to achieve process compliancy with ISO certification.

  • David Shipyard wanted to improve the company’s process and performance by implementing Corrective Action & Preventive Action (CAPA)

  • David Shipyard wanted to improve the company’s process and performance by implementing Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).

The Solution

By customizing a solution utilizing M-files and Chronoscan, Toshiba was able to help David Shipyard increase document management productivity by 25% and achieve all the requirement.

The Result

David Shipyard was able to

  • Streamline document version management and enhance document workflow productivity.
  • Reduced the time required for document management to 75% by reducing the time spent on document management to (360 hours/month).
  • Achieve the required process compliance with ISO certification.
  • Achieve the implementation of Corrective Action & Preventive Action (CAPA).
  • Achieve the implementation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).