Owners do not digitalise maintenance because it is modern, but because ship-by-ship tracking has stopped holding together. This guide covers the decision at fleet level: what the bridge and the office each expect from it, how to keep one data standard across different ship types, how to phase the rollout, and how to measure the result.
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On a long voyage there is no resupply and no express freight: whatever is not in the store room when you let go the lines will not exist for the whole trip. This article works through the loadout list — criticality, lead times, space and weight, tools, shelf life, stowage — and shows how the post-voyage debrief writes the next list.
Lire l'articleOil analysis reveals internal engine wear hundreds of running hours before a failure. It only works if the sample is drawn properly, if wear metals and TBN are read in context, and if every result is tied to the equipment and the hour counter at the time of sampling. The full method, from bottle to work order.
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ISM stands for International Safety Management. This complete guide covers the Code end to end: its definition, its origin, the ships it applies to, the Safety Management System, the Designated Person Ashore, the difference between DOC and SMC, and how to handle chapters 9, 10 and 11 — the ones behind most audit findings.
Lire l'articleThe annual haul-out, point by point: preparation, lift-out, anodes, shaft line, antifouling, relaunch. The full checklist is set out in the article as tables, giving the acceptance criterion for each check and the data to record in the CMMS work order.
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