New electronic crew boards developed by PSNS & IMF-led team now available at all shipyards
Summary
A team lead by Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility has completed the newest version of electronic crew boards. An application used across NAVSEA that includes job orders, shipyard priorities, work team members, issues, turnover notes, and goals for the shift was requested. “This also creates the foundation for future, enterprise-wide, software developments that will aim to improve the functionality for all production.” Over the course of two years, a diverse team with about 60 personnel from around NAVSEA worked on the project. “Whether being displayed on a large screen monitor in a muster site or on an individual tablet or laptop/desktop, the application provides the flexibility to support a diverse range of constraints or usage cases throughout each shipyard and project.” Zwiefelhofer credited feedback and suggestions from the shops and codes that assisted in the versatility of the current product. “The big enhancement to the crew boards software being in EP is that there is an ability to provide two-way communication that can receive and send information to other corporate applications.