In German Shipbuilding not any experience in total organization of a compact shipyard and about its processes with involvement of group-teamwork, know-how of single staff members, respective performance stimulating system, relationship between run of events and co-operation was available. So in frame of a pilot-project the basic approach of the Peene-Werft consisted in starting the group-teamwork and the continuous improvement process (KVP) with self-controlling effect to the run of production process in selected fields having relatively clear interfaces. By way of the new task, to demand a group result from the staff members, the work became more comprehensive and at the same time lead to an increase of productivity and efficiency. In the field where the pilot-project was effective a reduction of production hours by 7 to 8% could be achieved, beside of economizing overhead costs. The speedy involvement of other fields into group-teamwork and KVP is foreseen. (orig.)SIGLEAvailable from TIB Hannover: F98B2018+a / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekBundesministerium fuer Bildung, Wissenschaft, Forschung und Technologie, Bonn (Germany)DEGerman