five years supplier award ”partner des jahres“

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Five Years Supplier Award ”Partner des Jahres“
On 10 February this year we will be celebrating a small anniversary - it is already the fifth time that we will be awarding our ”Partner des Jahres“ in the
city hall in Papenburg.
The determination of the prize winners was carried out based on our supplier
ratings for our delivered newbuildings in 2010. This year our newbuildings
S.680, AIDAblu as well as S.677, Celebrity Eclipse were the basis for the rating.
The results of the supplier rating for the Disney Dream delivered in December
2010 will be considered in the determination of next year‘s prize winners.
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Five Years Supplier Award ”Partner des Jahres“
MEYER WERFT‘s supplier award ”Partner des Jahres“
has developed into a constant in international shipbuilding. The appreciation of the companies awarded by us is reflected in press releases, by respective
messages on homepages and last but not least by
using the specially designed logo ”Partner des Jahres“ on the official business papers of the partner
companies.
Of course we are very happy that our award has
established itself as a renowned seal of quality, and
that it presents an excellent reference to our „Partner des Jahres“ also for new business relations.
Our anniversary five years of ”Partner des Jahres“ is
at the same time an incentive for an essential further intensification of our cooperation in terms of
a continuous improvement process - we are looking
forward to it.
The previous award winners:
Partner des Jahres 2006:
Rolf Janssen GmbH, Aurich (Mechanical Engineering), G. Theodor Freese GmbH, Bremen (Shipbuilding ), VHB
Vereinigte Holzbaubetriebe, Memmingen (Interiors/Accommodation), marinze glazing Brombach & Gess
GmbH & Co. KG, Balingen (Outfitting ), Caritas-Werkstätten, Papenburg (Special award)
Partner des Jahres 2007:
Imtech Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG, Hamburg (Mechanical Engineering), Karat International Ltd./Marine
Projects, Gdansk (Shipbuilding), BSS Metallbau-Schiffsausbau, Lemgo (Interiors/Accommodation), Bolidt
Kunststofftoepassing b.v., Henrik-Ido-Ambacht (Outfitting), Rudolf Gauglitz, Moormerland (Special award)
Partner des Jahres 2008
Dipl.-Ing. H. Sitte GmbH & Co.KG, Bramstedt (Mechanical Engineering), International Farbenwerke GmbH,
Börnsen (Shipbuilding), baumeister programm KG, Lüneburg (Interiors/Accommodation), IMS A/S, Akland
(Outfitting), Ingrid Fiebak Fotografie, Leer (Special award), Klöckner Stahl- und Metallhandel, Bremen (Innovation award)
Partner des Jahres 2009
Industriemontagen Peter Kowalski, Steinhagen (Mechanical Engineering), International Farbenwerke GmbH,
Börnsen (Shipbuilding), DFI Dauerflora International GmbH, Hamburg (Outfitting), Antti-Teollisuus Oy, Kanunki (Interiors/Accommodation), Wagener Gastronomie Engineering (Interiors/Accommodation), Diskowski
Marine Electronics AG, Barsbüttel (Electrotechnics), Lotsenbrüderschaft Emden (Special award)
Who will be Partner des Jahres 2010?
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K158
Gate 2
EDL
Staff car
park (east)
Timekeeping office
Harbour
Steel
cutting
centre
Administration
Laser centre
Training
Crane rails 1
Building dock 1
Block building
Movable
bridge
Hall 1-4
Section outfitting
MEYER WERFT
Laserzentrum GmbH
Hall 5
Works
council
Administration building
Warehouse
MEYER WERFT
Rohrzentrum GmbH
Order picking
facility
MEYER WERFT
Rohrzentrum GmbH
MEYER WERFT
Akademie GmbH
Administration
Hall 1-4
Site
offices
Lab/Site office
MEYER WERFT
Rohrzentrum GmbH
Site
offices
Building dock 3
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External storage area
Section storage area
Staff car
park
(south)
600-t crane
Waste
sorting facility
External storage area
Visitors
centre
Gate 3
Gate 1
Crane rails 2
Building dock 2
Block building
800-t crane
Occupational safety
training centre
Pap
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Hall 6
Occupational physician
Plant fire brigade
Ambulance
nbu
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Entrance
Industrial
harbour
Trucks
Movable
bridge
To motorway A31
K158
Rheiderlandstraße
Construction Measures in 2011
This year we are again investing into the shipyard
to maintain and further expand our market position. Both construction and conversion measures are
planned for 2011.
The probably most important measure in 2011 for
the shipyard is the planned flow production in the
section outfitting. We are working intensively to
decide, whether to effect it in hall 4 or alternatively
in a new hall 11. This helps to extend the laser centre significantly. This step bundles the complete section production from the first steel cutting and the
panel construction to outfitting at MEYER WERFT
Laserzentrum GmbH.
In order not to lose time we are already making
provisions for the construction of a hall 11 as well
as for the creation of alternative parking space. The
use of the hall areas 1-4 will then be revised. The
room made available in halls 1-3 by the move of
the section outfitting will be taken over by MEYER
WERFT Rohrzentrum, which hereby assumes here a
more central position at the shipyard and can supply the other operative sections and companies in a
better and more effective manner. The vacant areas
in the Rohrzentrum are then mostly taken over by
the central warehouse. These measures together
with the required reconstruction works should be
completed by mid to end of 2011.
MEYER WERFT at the ”Business Plus“ in Oldenburg
Beside several regional companies, MEYER WERFT
was present at the ”Business Plus“ on 9 and 10
December 2010.
The Weser-Ems halls in Oldenburg were hosting the
4th edition of this business platform. 180 exhibitors
presented their products to around 7,000 visitors on
5,000 m² exhibition space. The motto of the NorthWest Fair 2010 was ”Sustainability“.
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Deliveries 2010
Delivery of AIDAblu
On 5 February 2010 MEYER WERFT delivered the
71,300-gt club ship AIDAblu to AIDA Cruises (Rostock) in the port of Emden.
Following the delivery to the owners, the AIDAblu
was christened in Hamburg on 9 February 2010 by
the fashion designer Jette Joop.
The AIDAblu is the fourth ship out of a series of
six club ships MEYER WERFT is building for AIDA
Cruises. On this ship which is tailored to meet the
taste of German passengers comfortable interiors
are combined with state-of-the-art technical outfitting.
Both safety and entertainment meet the latest
technical standards ensured by the diesel-electric
propulsion system, interactive communication systems and sophisticated stage technology.
Delivery of Celebrity Eclipse
On 15 April 2010 MEYER WERFT delivered the
122,000-gt cruise ship Celebrity Eclipse to Celebrity Cruises (Miami, USA) in the Dutch port of Eemshaven. The Celebrity Eclipse is the third ship out of
a series of five Celebrity Cruises has ordered from us.
Considerable energy saving is ensured by highly
energy-efficient systems such as a photovoltaic system, optimised hull design (hydrodynamics), a very
effective underwater coating and an energy-saving
lighting system using LEDs.
The cruise ship was christened in Southampton on
24 April 2010.
Delivery of Disney Dream
On 9 December 2010 Disney Cruise Line took possession of its family cruise ship Disney Dream from
MEYER WERFT aboard the ship in Bremerhaven. Having a length of 340 m and a breadth of 37 m, she is
the biggest passenger ship hitherto built in Germany. She can accommodate up to 4,000 passengers.
Following an intense planning period, construction
of the ship began on 2 March 2009, and was now
successfully completed.
On 20 December the 130,000-gt ship departed for
her Atlanic crossing. The Disney Dream is scheduled
to sail three-, four- and five-night cruises to the Bahamas, from Port Canaveral, starting in January 2011.
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Heinrich Wagener, Wagener Gastronomie Engineering
In the same boat
Cooperation based on
partnership between
shipyard and supplier as
path to success
Robotic bending machine for production of wall and ceiling systems
For many years Wagener Gastronomie Engineering has been delivering stainless
steel components that are used in different sections of the cruise ships to MEYER
WERFT. Primarily these are exhaust air hoods for galleys and pantries, but also
other stainless steel components for galleys and laundries, like e.g. tables and
lint filters are part of our range of products.
MEYER WERFT has to face the challenge to save
cost and weight for every newbuilding. We also
have to face this challenge so that our products
can prevail in the market and that we can secure
a good number of orders in hand for our company. Meeting the continuously increasing pressure of
cost with prices at which we offer our products and
are still able to act in an economically responsible
manner at the same time is already a big task, but
it is not the only one. Furthermore, using innovative solutions, we need to continuously develop and
improve our products. The close cooperation with
MEYER WERFT that has grown over many years
helps us in this task, as many of these solutions are
developed together with their employees, so that
the special requirements of our customers become
part of our product development.
Such a cooperation works only based on mutual
trust and cooperative dialogue. Part of this is that
all persons who can contribute to the further development and improvement of our products form
part of this cooperation and that nobody is ignored.
We feel that there are possibilities here to improve
our cooperation, as at present there is no central
contact partner at the shipyard who ensures that
the right information is passed on to the appropriate persons.
An example of a product development arising from
the close cooperation between MEYER WERFT and
ourselves is our new stainless steel wall and ceiling
system for galleys. In close cooperation with the
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shipyard we could develop a solution reduced
in cost and weight with this system, and we are
convinced that this system will be used on future
newbuildings. The result of our common efforts is
a win-win situation for Wagener Gastronomie Engineering and MEYER WERFT. It helps us to continue
to expand our market position and to establish a
completely new product branch while the shipyard
benefits from a weight and cost-optimised system
for galleys on future newbuildings.
We think that the approach to tackle new challenges the market denotes to the end product together with our customer is right, as we as a supplier
are in the end in the same boat as the shipyard. We
do not ask ourselves if we can afford a new development, but if we can afford not to implement a
new development.
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New orders fROM AIDA Cruises and NCL
After more than two years without orders for newbuildings, the order from AIDA Cruises for another
ship of the running series as well as the order for
two cruise liners for NCL offered great relief to the
team of MEYER WERFT. Surely there is no one in our
company or in our many partner companies who
is not relieved and happy about the fact that these exciting and innovative ships are built by us and
give us at least a partial workload until 2014.
Beside the ”sporting“ challenge to realise the
short construction time for the first NCL ship, the
contractual prices for all three ships represent an
enormous challenge. There is fierce competition
for all newbuilding projects on the market, and presently they are at the
price level of 2003 and 2004.
Unfortunately the prices for
the required raw materials like for example oil,
copper, steel etc. partly
have seen explosive
increases in the past
years so that the
challenges for us to
build the ships in a
cost-covering manner have risen considerably.
As
previously
reported several times,
in the past years we
have laid the technical
basis to maintain our successful market position thanks
to investments of several hundred
million Euros in modern production
facilities. With our programme ”lean shipbuilding“, which is based on the principle known from
the automotive industry of ”pull - cycle - flow - zero
defects“ (”fließen – takten – ziehen – Null-Fehler“)
and the simultaneous creation of a CIP organisation
(CIP = continuous improvement process), that are
continually found in all areas of the shipyard, we
have created the basis to increase our productivity
by 50% in less than three years.
This increase in productivity in a relatively short
period of time is of elementary importance, as the
prices for the said newbuilding orders are already
based on this considerable increase in our productivity. The results so far from different production
areas give us a clear indication that we have chosen
the right path - however we still have a long way
to go. In order to reach the objectives connected
with the orders we depend to a great extent on
you, our partner companies. Our internal measures
alone are far from sufficient to process the orders
for AIDA and NCL with commercial success. More
than 75% of the cost of a cruise liner is third party
costs i.e. the part that we purchase from you. Not
only the technical, but also the commercial success
or failure of our orders depends particularly on you,
we depend on your support!
Whilst keeping at least constant quality, we must
jointly find ways to drastically reduce the prices for
installations/systems, goods and services to be delivered by you. To be clear: It is principally not important to become cheaper, but it is important in
terms of ”total cost“ to cost!
The ”lean shipbuilding principle“, however, works only
when all companies involved in the construction of
the ships are integrated
into the systematics of
”lean construction“.
Part of our partner
companies, mainly
from the interiors/
accommodation
sector, was already
integrated into the
training courses. During our newbuilding
S.677, Celebrity Eclipse,
these companies could
already assure themselves
with success of the advantages not only for the shipyard,
but also for their own companies.
Further training courses will follow.
We will consequently develop further this system in
order to for example significantly reduce the cost
both on our as also on your side via improving the
planning in prefabrication, shorter processing/dismantling times etc. We trust that in your own interest you will actively support us in all measures for
the successful processing of our newbuilding orders.
The challenges linked to the new orders are surely huge, but in the usual cooperation as partners
we will master even these challenges with flying
colours.
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A New Concept for the ”Regional Day 2011“
On 27 August 2011 the ”Regional Day“ of MEYER
WERFT will take place for the fourth time in a row.
Once again companies headquartered in the German postal code areas 26, 27, 28, 48 and 49, as well
as in the Dutch provinces of Friesland, Groningen
and Drenthe will be invited to attend.
This year the fourth meeting of companies at the
shipyard will follow a different concept compared
to the years before. While at the previous events
the focus was on establishing contacts between regional companies and the purchasing and technical
departments of MEYER WERFT, this year emphasis
will be put on bringing together representatives
of regional companies with each other and with
the shipyard‘s national and international suppliers.
Some of these companies will also be represented
at the event. In this manner MEYER WERFT will
make allowance for the concept of its ”Regional
Network“ as part of the MEYER NEPTUN PORTAL.
This network is open to companies headquartered
in a fore-mentioned regions. It offers its members
the possibility to present their products and services
to each other and to MEYER WERFT‘s national and
international suppliers that seek regional assistance
for execution of their work at the yard.
Companies will be invited to attend the ”Regional
Day 2011“ through regional media, economic associations and the chambers of industry and commerce. Companies interested to join this event can
get registered online on www.meyerwerft.com in
due course.
New Orders for Neptun Werft
On 23 November 2010 Viking River Cruises celebrated at NEPTUN WERFT in Rostock in presence of
Rüdiger Möller, State Secretary in the Ministry for
Economy and Tourism of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania the keel-laying of the Rhine-Main-Danube
cruise ship Viking Prestige. This was the Swiss shipping company‘s symbolic foundation stone for its
extensive newbuilding programme. The Viking Prestige will be the first ship to enter into service in the
season of 2011.
On the occasion of the official ceremony at NEPTUN
WERFT, Viking River Cruises announced also four
newbuildings for the season of 2012.
Manfred Müller-Fahrenholz, General Manager of
NEPTUN WERFT, is happy about the cooperation
with the Swiss shipping company as the orders contribute to maintain employment until spring 2012.
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Editor:
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Industriegebiet Süd
26871 Papenburg
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Photos:
MEYER WERFT, Ingrid Fiebak Fotografie,
Wagener Gastronomie Engineering
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