Brobygging, samhandling og deling av kunnskap mellom partnere

1. Tema: Prosessforbedring: Hvordan identifisere og sikre de forretningsmessige gevinstene av nye samhandlingsformer? Brobygging, samhandling og deling av kunnskap mellom partnere Fremtidig samarbeid mellom aktørene i maritime sektor Software 2000 08.01.2000 Oslo Peter Wieland Det Norske Veritas peter.wieland@dnv.com

2. Contents • Current situation • Levels of IT-induced business reconfiguration • Redesign of external business processes • Redesign example: Virtual enterprises • VE project: MARVIN • ICT-based information exchange • Example: Model based approval

3. Globalisation of services & access to knowledge Geographical distance disappear Traditional organisational membership becomes obsolete Increasing number of competitors New ways of exposing own services and competence areas Increasing number of service providers, customers, collaborators, etc. New ways of working together Redefine processes (internal and external) Identify business partners Exchange information Current Situation

4. Five levels of IT-induced business reconfiguration

5. Level 4: Business network redesign (external business processes) • Altering the way that the business interacts with its suppliers/customers. • Done by exploiting ICT. • Type of interaction can itself involve different levels of structuredness in the information that is exchanged. • Less structured exchanges are possible when a business is able to log into its suppliers database management system. • Highly structured exchanges occur when businesses are linked through electronic data interchange (EDI). Example: Virtual Enterprise, cartel, joint venture, etc.

6. A (temporary) partnership of independent companies and/or individuals Dynamically configured Partners linked through modern telecommunication infrastructure Exploit and profit from rapidly changing business opportunities Composed of partners of core competence (best-of-everything-company) Neither central office nor hierarchy or vertical integration Partnerships will be less permanent, less formal, and based more on special opportunities. Partners are free to end their partnership after completion of the venture. Internal, stable or dynamic Corporate identity replaced by product identity Virtual enterprise characteristics

7. Requirements Trust, culture for openness Fit (strategically, cultural, organisational) Flexible IT systems (new products, processes and heterogeneous systems) Mature standards Threats “Not-Invented-Here” Conflicts after completion Missing standards Missing identification with participants of the VE Requirements and threats

8. European research project 1999 - 2001 10 international partners Ship managers Class society / ERS Ship yard Software vendor University / Research 4 Countries Co-ordinator: DNV http://research.dnv.com/marvin Example: Objectives: • To reduce the out-of-service time for ships in operation. • To provide guidance on legal issues of running a virtual operation on the internet. • To define a standard-based infrastructure for the management of maritime processes that integrates state-of-the-art ICT. • To develop a tool kit that models, facilitates and co-ordinates the interaction between companies forming a virtual organisation in the maritime industry • To validate the proposed infrastructure and tools within two separate scenarios

9. Virtual enterprise core architecture in MARVIN

10. Many standards in use Many digital systems do not communicate Need to invest in translators and viewers Need to develop interface/communication standards such as STEP Legal challenges f.ex. with use of electronic signatures and stamps Legal implications w.r.t. ownership of information Obvious gains in transmittal time Tendencies to information over flow Version control as important as ever Gains may be consumed by lower prices Costs may be moved from one actor to another, f.ex. printing Digital information requires new work processes Digital information enables new work processes ICT-based information exchange

11. MITV: Model based hull design approval project • NFR research project • Duration: July 1999 - December 2000 • Project manager: DNV Objective: By means of ICT and new work processes to reduce time and costs related to hull design approval. The project is a collaboration between Norwegian ship building industry, Marintek and Det Norske Veritas

12. Project objectives • Establish neutral electronic communication between distributed actors • Develop STEP - Nauticus translators • Trigger development of STEP - CAD/CAM translators • Test exchange of 2D electronic drawings • Test exchange of 3D models • Develop new work processes through modelling, simulation and optimisation of • Organisation (project and enterprise) • Work processes

13. Example of neutral electronic communication • STEP (STandard for Exchange of Product data) application protocols defines neutral product models for ships: • AP 215 Ship Arrangement • AP 216 Ship Moulded Forms • AP 217 Ship Piping Systems • AP 218 Ship Structures • AP 226 Ship Mechanical Systems • DXF (Drawing Exchange Format) Enables communication between Nauticus and the CAD/CAM systems of the yards/consultants

14. Electronic communication architecture in MITV