Engineering management

Provide a full range of detailed design service capabilities from concept through to disposal, enabling the delivery of safe, supportable and sustainable engineering solutions:

• Naval architecture, structural design and analysis
• Fluid, air and HVAC design
• System and equipment integration
• Technical oversight services
• Margins management

Demonstrable, and continuously improving, compliance with the customer's safety, environmental and security goals:

• Produce and maintain the safety artefacts
• All trade control and security activity required to operate the Class

Accurate Class configuration data that supports efficient design change, spares procurement, maintenance definition and Class safety case:

• Plan and deploy a Configuration Management System maintaining an approved dataset
• Manage the Platform Design Baseline and Design Intent 
• Track and forecast technical margins
• Integrate configuration management with design change process
• Control of the update and accreditation of software installed in the class

We work with clients throughout the entire design lifecycle, from concept through to disposal, not only facilitating large scale embodiment activities and the resolution of operational issues, but the reduction of technical and project risk through holistic analysis and specialist advice.

• Requirements definition and derivation
• Feasibility studies and Cost Benefit Analysis
• Root Cause Analysis
• Option studies and design definition
• OEM technical liaison and embodiment support
• Obsolescence management

Maintenance optimised for maximum whole-life value and availability with best use of condition monitoring techniques:

• Ownership of maintenance schedules
• Provision of software tools to schedule and generate maintenance
• Continuous improvement of maintenance regime through RCM and other methods (working with equipment suppliers)
• Management of maintenance concession
• Alteration of maintenance in preparation for design change

We ensure ship designs are supportable and the right support solution is developed – to deliver greater maintainability, reliability, availability and minimise through life costs:

• Design for support
• Maintenance design and optimisation
• Supportability design analysis, including supply support, human factors and operability analysis
• Technical information
• Configuration and data management