YOUR LOGISTIC PARTNER

Logistics support is a strategic matter considering its operational, financial and industrial impact. DCN (the major French Shipbuilder of military vessel for French Navy) which is in charge of the life cycle support of the French Navy vessels, can prevail an extensive competence in the related field as it constitutes around 30 % of its industrial activity.

DCN Log has been created by DCN in 1994, in order to organize and develop the long term logistic support of the ships built by the DCN and sold to foreign navies. Today, DCN Log supports more than 20 navies and tens of ships and combat systems all around the world. The turn over of DCN Log in 2003 is 48 millions euros for a staff of 270 persons entirely dedicated to logistic support.

DCN Log is involved in both initial logistics during the development and construction phase of the ships and in the in-service logistics after ship delivery and till her decommissioning. DCN Log objective is to maintain and manage the industrial network and the technical expertise to be capable to answer to our customer needs during this long period.

During the construction phase, DCN Log is responsible of the development and the production of the complete ILS package for the whole ship. For this purpose, DCN Log performs the following activities:

• ILS management
• Logistic Support Analysis including:
  • Definition of the maintenance policy and Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Reliability, Availability, Maintainability Analysis (FMECA, RCM)
  • Maintenance plan : Maintenance Task Analysis, Level Of Repair Analysis, integration of the logistic data and maintenance policy of the equipment sub-contractor
• Logistic Information System and Integrated Maintenance Management System
• Technical documentation and e.manuals
• Maintenance training and Computer Based Training
• Spare parts optimization and provisioning
• Packaging, handling, storage and transportation
• Support and test equipment definition, acquisition and installation
• Maintenance of the ships before delivery to the customer
• Guarantee

DCN Log permanently invests to develop new logistic concepts and services based on new technologies. In particular, DCN Log is right now developing a life cycle support based ILS concept. The aim of this concept is to produce an information system, a spare parts organization and maintenance planning fully and immediately adapted to the specific requirements, organization and procedures of each of our customers. This will drastically simplify:
 

• the preparation and the execution of the maintenance
• the modification implementation both on the equipment and on the support system
• the links between navies and industrial support in a long term logistic support view.

DCN Log is also in charge of in-service phase and its main activities in this business area are:

• Spare parts provisioning
• Repair of spares and systems
• Training, Technical assistance, on-call maintenance operation
• Maintenance capacities improvement
• Maintenance organization and execution
• Follow-On Logistics Support (FOLS) including configuration management, information system management, collection and analysis of operational feed-back, proposal of modification
• Logistic Overhaul including:
  • Logistic information system modernization and overhaul
  • Spare parts batch adjustments
  • Update of the logistic system due to modification implementation on the main system
  • Maintenance plan update based on the real executed tasks

The diversity of DCN Log’s customers is important. Indeed, it has been performing logistics support of more than twenty navies; including countries such as Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, Chile, Norway, Turkey, Pakistan, Malaysia, etc. Though it has been long working for the French Navy as a sub-contractor, DCN Log has recently been involved as prime contractor. For all the programs it’s been working on, DCN Log has performed either initial or in-service logistics or most of the time both.

DCN Log expertise covers all the ship and systems as it manages and performs the logistics support of:

• 10 classes of surface ships (ASW and AAW, frigates, corvettes mine-hunters, tankers…from 1200 tons to 5000 tons)
• 4 classes of submarines (Agosta 70 and 90 B, Daphné, Scorpène)
• Combat system: SENIT 2000

The logistic information system modernization and overhaul answers to lots of Navies concerns at that time. Indeed, most of the Navies are facing discrepancies between the status of their documentation configuration data and maintenance and the reality observed on-board. This service includes the collection, organization and if necessary up-dating of the existing technical data to make it consistent with the system configuration, the use profile and the maintenance plan. DCN Log uses compatible tools, notably:

• A technical data management system (including digitalized documentation)
• A scheduled maintenance tasks and associated resources management system
• A know-how spreading and capitalization system, allowing the user to detect within a few questions all kinds of breakdowns.

Since DCN Log works on initial and in-service logistic, it takes a great benefit of synergies between these two business areas.

From a technical point of view, the experience feed-back from in-service logistic is used to improve the initial logistics of new project. On the other hand, the involvement of DCN Log in the initial logistics is a source of innovation for in-service logistics in the fields of new maintenance concepts and high tech products.

From an organizational point of view, the continuous involvement of DCN Log from the construction phase to the decommissioning avoids a break up in the working teams and then maintain the working procedures and the confidence established during the construction phase.

Being fully involved in the ILS from the birth of a naval project till the decommissioning of the ships, DCN Log will remain your logistic partner … for a long time.

HEADQUARTERS

Btiment EUCLIDE
168 Chemin de la Capellane
83188 SIX FOURS LES PLAGES CEDEX
FRANCE

Tel : + 334 94 30 38 38
Fax : + 334 88 22 02 07
E-mail : dcn-log.toulon@dcn-log.fr

 

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