Naval Dockyard
Client Profile
The Naval Dockyard, Mumbai, is the premier repair yard of the Indian Navy & is over 270 years old. Spread over 130 acres of land, it has vast range of engineering facilities to meet every maintenance need of ships and submarines.

Yard spans over 100 workshops/centres and has strength of over 10000 employees, bulk of who are the industrial civilian workers

Primary functions of the yard include
- Refit of Ships and Submarines
- Repairs and maintenance support to operational ships.
- Berthing and movement of ships.
- Repairs to repairable inventory of Materials Organization, Mumbai
- Maintenance support to outlying units of Western Naval Command (WNC)

Key Challenges

Objectives of the solution were
Visibility of inventory held by various stores
Real-Time monitoring of transactions
Automatic & Real-Time Inventory updates
Complete life cycle starting from receipt @ NDMB to final issue to end-users
Single click reports across departments
Automatic & Real-Time personnel & asset tracking at weapons department

Solution offered
Tag (Bar Code, Passive & Active RFID) entire inventory
Time stamped & automatic updates to the inventory
Alerts to pre-defined people at non- arrival of a specific inventory from Zonal stores to user department
Validation of authorized personnel for pick-up of inventory


Results / Outcome

Multiple applications - inventory, personnel & asset tracking on a single platform.
Use of multiple technologies - Bar Code, Passive & Active RFID on the same platform.
Real-Time inventory status across all stores and user centres
Real-Time information on the arrival of items leading to efficient operations
Reduced pilferage of items
Automatic FIFO enforcement for perishable items
Real-Time alerts for unauthorized personnel & asset movement