The story started in 2004, when raised the necessity of available engineering capacity within the DAMEN Group, so Schelde Naval Shipbuilding took the decision to set up a new engineering company in Galati, within the Damen Shipyard area, named MARINE ENGINEERING Galati, well known as MEGA.
The first team – six hull and piping engineers – started in April 2004 and was followed by other small teams at every five – six months. In the next four years MEGA has grown in size – up to 38 employees – at the beginning of 2008 – but also in performance.
Following the DAMEN Group Top Management decision, in July 2008 MEGA took over almost half of the engineers of the Engineering Department of DAMEN Galati Shipyard and reached up to 65 employees.
Till the summer of 2011, MEGA was growing up to 74 direct engineers and was necessary to arrange another office with abt. 46 working places.
Nowadays, MEGA is a modern engineering company specialized in engineering for shipbuilding, mainly providing detailed engineering packages for hull, piping, arrangements and outfitting, FEM, ILS and Data Engineering Support activities, performing also inclining tests, with almost 200 people, from which more than 90% are direct hull& steel outfitting or mechanical/ piping/ electrical/ HVAC engineers, Project Managers, Project Coordinators and Team Leaders, working in modern offices spaces, in 2 office buildings.
Engineering process is principally done using the shipbuilding specialized 3D software systems, 3DX CATIA, NUPAS/ CADMATIC, but also Rhinoceros, ANSYS, siemens nx.
The input data of the engineering design performed by MEGA is the basic design received from our partners Damen Naval, Damen Yachting or Damen Shipyards Gorinchem.
MEGA employees for each discipline (structural & steel outfitting, mechanical, arrangements, FEM, ILS) also participate at development of the basic design, when projects start, in our clients’ offices in Vlissingen, Gorinchem, Schiedam, Gdansk, Antalya, Alblasserdam.
Very young engineers, coming directly from the University, together with engineers having many years of shipbuilding experience (in engineering and/or in the building yards) were growing up together year by year, step by step and improved their interaction within the project teams.
The Management of the Company succeeded in improving the main project management and quality management procedures inside the Company, but also the cooperation with our engineering partners and main clients within the DAMEN Group.
An essential objective of MEGA is the concern for significant and continual improvement of the quality of all its processes and services. In this respect, quality objectives are established and monitored yearly, for each department, in order to reduce the amount of non-conformities.
All the employees of MEGA – shipbuilding and mechanical engineers, guided by the Top Management of the Company – succeeded by dedication, hardworking and joint efforts, especially during the last 5-6 years, to build a motivated, competitive and powerful Engineering Team, i.e. the MEGA Team!
The BI project started at MEGA in November 2012, with a workshop coordinated by professor Henk Akkermans from Tilburg University and the BI department from Damen Shipyards Gorinchem.
The idea was to set up some main targets from our management team point of view, targets to be reached in the near future. The awareness of the fact that we can be stronger inside DAMEN Group, by increasing efficiency and organising better, using BI tools, was obvious, thus we’ve started using BI tools to determine main KIPs in engineering, HR, of Finance.
Our BI is people centric : we need to be in the middle and get access to information anytime and anywhere!