Nakilat, a worldwide leader in power transport, Classification Society DNV, and also a team of leading backyards and also system providers have actually collaborated on a joint advancement job (JDP) to raise software application dependability and also upkeep throughout procedures. The JDP, which was started in 2020 by Nakilat, has actually caused the launch of a brand-new DNV Recommended Practice (DNV-RP-0582), released in June 2021.

Today, crucial vessel features depend greatly on electronic software-based systems that are coming to be extra complicated, automatic and also incorporated. Software failings or dependability concerns can currently lead to substantial safety and security threats, along with shed profits as a result of off-hire days.

To aid attend to these threats, DNV and also Nakilat united shipyards– DSME, Hudong, HHI and also SHI, with system providers– ABB, Honeywell, Kongsberg and also Wartsila, to add to the advancement of the RP.

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Nakilat Chief Executive Officer Eng Abdullah Al-Sulaiti stated: “With one of the largest LNG shipping fleets in the world, we are intimately aware of the importance of Information Technology (IT) integrity in ensuring safe, sustainable and reliable vessel operations. With the experience gained from completing our own fleet-wide digitalization exercise, we are pleased to be partnering with key players in the industry to share our insights and contribute towards the improvement of vessel IT and computerization reliability and quality. The newly published RP will act as a key enabler for the safe implementation of new digital technologies onboard, helping other vessel managers and owners to mitigate the risks of digitalisation while improving the safety of the crew, environment, vessel and cargo.”

“Our recent white paper highlighted an emerging safety gap in shipping rooted in the rapid digitalization of the industry and the increasingly complex on-board systems of modern vessels,” stated Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER of DNVMaritime “Addressing these emerging risks is essential to our mission as a classification society, but it requires a collective effort. This is why we are very pleased that there is such a strong industry participation in this project, as it further underlines the growing importance of this topic. The RP is designed to help owners and operators deal with software in the same way they would machinery or other physical systems onboard and with the RP now available, we hope to see this implemented soon in both newbuildings and the existing fleet.”

The Recommended Practice (RP) supplies assistance on the handling of facility software application and also computer-based systems throughout a vessel’s life process (style, building, appointing, and also procedure). By concentrating on system assimilation and also software application modification handling, the RP functions to boost software application dependability and also high quality.

Furthermore, the RP might be utilized as a legal element/requirement in newbuilding or conversion jobs, and/or as standards for providers, system integrators and also owners/operators to examine conformity and also the recurring standing of systems. The RP can likewise help in developing upkeep strategies, solution degree arrangements and also life process guarantees for software application, supplies a procedure to examine job timelines and also threats, consisting of placement throughout sis vessels, and also supplies suggestions to boost the interoperability and also integrability of vessel software application and also systems to vessels at both the newbuilding and also functional stages.

WEB LINK to RP:DNV Recommended practice, DNV-RP-0582