A key objective in the Subsea Industry today is to reduce cost, and at the same time achieve quality and meet the agreed schedule in new build projects, i.e. balance cost, schedule and quality.
This is further emphasized as the industry is looking at more remote development prospects and the development of more marginal discoveries. The focus on more efficient, predictable and cost effective development processes, without sacrificing quality or safety, becomes ever more dominant.
While the verification of design and quality control processes today in large organizations are customized to single project specific basis, DNV GL believes the industry will benefit greatly from standardizing these activities.
While the subsea industry is still maturing, the shipping industry has already long traditions with distribution and globalized supply chains as well as standardized QA regimes. As these two industries are sharing the same supply chains, the logic in looking to the maritime industry seem attractive. This paper will aim at pinpointing this, as well as providing a solution on how to do this.
This paper describes a new method of working in the subsea industry. The key objective with this method to reduce cost, and at the same time achieve and document quality and meet schedule. In one sentence, it is to balance cost, schedule and quality.
The subsea industry is expected to grow significantly the next 5 years, but on order for that to happen the industry must control the cost challenge it has faced the last years. The effort is named ‘Re-shaping the Subsea Industry’, not so much because the intention is to change the physical appearance of the finished product, but to improve the processes leading up to the finished product.
DNV GL has used the experience from the Maritime industry and transferred it to the Subsea Industry.
