Abstract:
Considering the maritime importance, inland water transport requirements and
assistance to the industries in southern part, Khulna Shipyard Limited (KSY) was
established in 1954-57 by the then Pakistan government in Labanchara on the bank of
the river Qazi Bacha, Khulna. It is basically a jobshop production oriented industry for
Shipbuilding, Ship repair and other various engineering works. But, with the elapse of
time the plant machinery started getting older and older. Moreover due to many other
reasons KSY turned to a burden of the Government and at its age of 41 years, the
Government declared it as a sick industry. Finally it was decided to handover KSY to
Bangladesh Navy to run it commercially and was handed over to Bangladesh Navy on
09 May 1999. After taking over by Bangladesh Navy it undertook different
programmes to make KSY a profitable industry.
This project work is the outcome of an attempt to study Khulna Shipyard and reengineering
its processes. The main feature of Khulna Shipyard has been discussed in
brief. In order to ascertain the bottlenecks of KSY the existing management and their
policy, working facilities, capabilities & limitations of the workshops, employees and
their status, customers, cost, quality of products, invento'ry status and policy, causes of
idle man hour production etc. has been analysed.
In order to achieve dramatic improvements in quality, cost, capital, serVIce, speed.
perfonnance, productivity and customer satisfaction through Business Process
Reengineering few vulnerable areas has been selected and necessary recommendations
has been made accordingly.
