March 2021 MTTO Newsletter
Technology & Innovation – Planned Maintenance Systems by Ashok Patra Dear Reader, The core objective of Planned Maintenance as a function lies in ensuring our maintenance platform is compliant to OEM recommendations, statutory & regulatory requirements, and MT procedures to drive our repair and maintenance strategy. With Maersk Tankers transformation from a traditional tanker company to a service provider, there will be requirements from new Owners that we may have to additionally comply with going forward. However, in our long history of creating maintenance plans from external sources for our new vessels or migrating them from previous owner’s data for secondhand tonnages, the data quality and compliance have not strictly been adhered to. Another significant perspective worth mentioning here is regarding our application Shipnet that many of us tend to miss out. It is designed on a fleet-ship model, so changes made to any machinery maintenance plans or spare
parts also require attention to where that machinery is applicable in our entire fleet. Combining the two perspectives holistically, it certainly complicates the challenges. We can relate it to “The Butterfly Effect” – the idea that small things can have non-linear impact on a complex system. The concept is imagined with a butterfly flapping its wings and causing a typhoon. Nevertheless, Maersk Tankers is known to solve problems. And hence, a new in-house team based out of Mumbai was finalised in late 2020. The team has a mixed skillset of colleagues from Marine, Mechanical & IT engineering and brings together rich experience of creating PMS for various sectors of Shipping industry. A detailed PMS Org structure can be seen below.
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