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Measurement and improvement

Operational Excellence

The same things cost more every time when nobody measures why. We turn operational experience into indicators, procedures and repeatable decisions.

Vessel time accounting — 18-day campaign ALL 24 HOURS ALLOCATED BY CAUSE 0h 6h 12h 18h 24h D01 D02 D03 D04 D05 D06 D07 D08 D09 D10 D11 D12 D13 D14 D15 D16 D17 D18 PRODUCTION TARGET 17 h WEATHER WINDOW WINCH FAILURE CAMPAIGN TOTAL 63% 9% 5% 4% 14% 4% LINE PRODUCTION LINE TURNS TRANSIT CALIBRATIONS & SVP WEATHER STANDBY EQUIPMENT DOWNTIME

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Vessel time accounting: all 24 hours of every day allocated to a cause. Line production accounts for 63.4%, weather standby for 14.4%, equipment downtime for 4.1%. Only the last one can be reduced by working better, and it is the one nobody measures. Illustrative dataset.

What it covers

Work on how the work gets done: measurement, standardisation and continuous improvement of marine operations.

  • 01KPIs and performanceIndicators that actually describe operations: production, downtime by cause, re-runs, and the rate of findings raised at review.
  • 02Procedures and SOPsDrafting and revision of operating procedures, work instructions and checklists that can be used on board, not just filed in a document system.
  • 03Readiness reviewStructured verification of readiness before a critical phase: people, assets, documents, permits, contingencies.
  • 04OptimisationAnalysis of operational bottlenecks and redesign of the work sequence to recover vessel days and processing hours.
  • 05Lessons learnedStructured capture at the end of a campaign, fed back into the specifications and procedures of the next project. This is where the loop closes.

The point

Measuring only matters if something changes.

Plenty of organisations collect operational data nobody uses. We start from the decision that data is supposed to support — how many vessel days to book, which contractor to invite back, which procedure to rewrite — and work backwards to the minimum set of indicators needed.

The result isn't one more dashboard: it's a small number of indicators someone actually looks at, with a threshold beyond which it's clear what to do.