DEVELOPMENT OF FRAMEWORK USING GROUP TECHNOLOGY APPROACH IN ESTIMATING FABRICATION TIME OF SUBSEA MANIFOLD

The purpose of this study is to adopt Group Technology approach to establish a framework for estimating fabrication time of Subsea Manifold. The framework was developed using EXCEL spreadsheet consisting of two main components which were database and fabrication estimation model. The development of the database applied Group Technology principles which were to classify parts and components in the fabrication process of similar attributes. Apart from that, the calculation was also added into the template for production time estimation applications. The project is related to Greater Western Flank (GWF) project which is one of subsea development project by Woodside Petroleum Company.