Our expertise

Engineering

The engineers of Shipyard Slob contribute to the development of the ship design and then take care of the detail engineering or working drawings of the hull using 3D software.

Our engineering team is a nice mix of very experienced former production employees, who know how to build a hull and young and driven engineers, who are very skilled with our PLM system (Teamcenter) and our 3D software (Cadmatic/NUPAS, Siemens NX, Rhino and others). The engineering of Shipyard Slob works on its own projects, but also does work for shipbuilders and engineering parties inside and outside Feadship. When additional engineering capacity is needed, Shipyard Slob can rely on a number of cooperating engineering parties.

Work preparation

Based on this information, Work Preparation creates the work packages for both the steel hull and the aluminum superstructure of the hull, including the installation of outfit, large components and piping.

Because Shipyard Slob produces itself, our experienced work planners know seamlessly, what is needed for their colleagues in production. The work preparation uses 3D software and also carries out work for external parties in shipbuilding and yacht building.

Steel

In Papendrecht, we have a number of large production halls, where the ship sections (parts of the hull) are produced and built into a high-quality, high-quality and complete steel hull.

There is no hull builder in the world who can build steel hulls with this high level of quality. The tightness of ship’s hull, decks and bulkheads is unrivalled accuracy. Welding stresses in the ship’s hull are also limited in the hull to prevent deformations due to the influence of temperature changes on the yacht. The production has experience with numerous types of steel.

Shipyard Slob can build three hulls at the same time in Papendrecht up to 125 meters. If necessary, Shipyard Slob can rely on the construction capacity of co-makers within and outside the region.

Aluminium

In two large separate production halls, the aluminium sections are assembled into a complete, high-quality aluminium superstructure, which is then placed on the steel hull.

Our aluminum production has a lot of experience in building aluminum bodies but also in building complete aluminum hulls. The production builds with ‘green’ aluminium and also has the experience and certificates to process other aluminium materials.

Piping

Shipyard Slob has its own Piping assembly department, which assembles all the ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ piping in the ship hulls according to the highest quality standards. Shipyard Slob uses the expertise of STI (also a 100% subsidiary of De Vries Groep), which takes care of the routing and pipe sketches of the ‘pipespools’. Our work preparation provides work packages for piping assembly, which then installs the piping.

Built-in

The large components in the superyacht have to be placed during hull construction, because they are too large to place after delivery of the hull. These large components such as engines, gearboxes, generators, switchboards and others are built in by Shipyard Slob itself. The installation crew also places all ‘hot’ outfits in the hull. Consider, for example, penetrations, foundations, lighting points and railing pots.