Shipbuilding project managementfrom contract to vessel delivery
Flowgres brings the engineering office, production, subcontractors and the shipowner together in one environment. The build schedule, shop-floor hours, documentation with certificates and the contract budget are up to date at any moment — without spreadsheets and email chains.
Where shipbuilding slips out of control
A shipbuilding project means hundreds of tasks, dozens of companies and thousands of documents handled in parallel over many months. The problem rarely lies with people — it lies with scattered tools.
From the shipowner's enquiry to vessel delivery
Each stage uses data created earlier. The contract becomes a project, the project becomes a schedule, and the schedule becomes shop-floor tasks — with no retyping.
Enquiry and contract
The shipowner's enquiry goes into the CRM. Costing, quotation versions and negotiation arrangements are in one place, and a signed contract automatically creates a project.
Build structure and schedule
The project is split into areas: hull, engine room, systems and outfitting. Each has milestones, an hour budget and responsible managers assigned.
Drawings and approvals
Documentation from the design office goes into a register with revisions. Approvals from the shipowner and the classification society are visible on every document.
Prefabrication and hull construction
Crews and subcontractors receive tasks assigned to blocks and sections. Working time is logged straight from the shop floor, so progress is visible in real time.
Systems and outfitting
Piping, electrical and outfitting work is coordinated in one schedule. Dependencies between tasks reveal bottlenecks straight away.
Trials and inspections
The trials list, reports and inspectors' remarks are handled as tickets with an owner and a deadline until they are closed.
Delivery and settlement
As-built documentation is complete, milestones are settled, and the profitability report shows how the contract performed against the plan.
Everyone involved in the build works on the same data
Every person and company sees what they need at their stage — without access to information that doesn't concern them.
Shipowner / client
Follows build progress and approves documentation without sending emails.
Project manager
Controls the schedule, budget and risks of the whole contract.
Engineering office
Keeps the drawing register and revisions, and responds to production's remarks.
Foremen and crews
Receive tasks for their sections and log working time in real time.
One source of contract data
Project, documents, working time and costs in one shared place.
Subcontractors
See only their own tasks, deadlines and documentation.
Classification society / inspector
Inspection remarks go into the system as tickets to be closed.
Procurement
Plans material deliveries around the actual work schedule.
Management board
Sees profitability and workload across all contracts at once.
Tools that replace spreadsheets, binders and mailboxes
Build schedule and progress
Milestones, dependencies and team workload in one view. A delay on one block immediately shows its impact on the following stages.
Tasks and projects →Shop-floor working time
Logging hours against the contract, section and task — without paper timesheets.
Time tracking →Documentation, revisions and certificates
A register of drawings and documents with successive revisions, owners and approval status. You always know which version applies on the shop floor.
All features →Remarks and tickets
Remarks from the shipowner and inspectors as tickets with deadlines — a list to close before acceptance.
Ticketing system →Communication on the task
Comments and notifications where the work happens — instead of email chains.
Team communication →Management reports
Progress, profitability and workload across all contracts in ready-made reports.
Reports and analysis →Integrations
Flowgres works with the systems you already use.
Implementing Flowgres in a dynamic shipyard environment let us smoothly move our existing workshop into a modern tool. The system's intuitiveness and its fit with engineering realities allowed us to quickly organize our task structure and schedules.
Shipyards' most common questions
Didn't find your answer? Talk to us — we'll show you the system using your contract as an example.
Can subcontractors work in the system?
Will Flowgres replace our ERP system?
Can you adapt the system to our processes?
What does implementation look like?
Where is our data stored?
See Flowgres using your shipyard as an example
We'll show you how to run a contract from the shipowner's enquiry to vessel delivery in one system.
