Laurent Hentges, VP digital options & transformation at Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore: “This is a big step ahead in supporting ship house owners, operators and managers with their equipment upkeep necessities.
Working with Swedish tanker operator Furetank, classification society Bureau Veritas (BV) has made its first deployment of a brand new operator-to-class knowledge connection answer. The new functionality allows BV’s equipment upkeep software (MMA) to attach on to a vessel operator’s Kongsberg Digital K-Fleet maintenance management system.
This functionality permits the vessel operator to immediately switch equipment upkeep knowledge to Bureau Veritas. The first connection utilizing the brand new answer went reside on April 3, between a Furetank ship utilizing Okay-Fleet software program and BV. It made use of a brand new connector launched by Kongsberg Digital that allows ship operators to simply push their PMS (deliberate upkeep survey system) knowledge to BV’s MMA. Based on the information, Bureau Veritas can put together its periodical vessel audits with larger pace and effectivity.
HOW IT WORKS
Using the brand new connector, the vessel’s checklist of apparatus (LOE) is shipped with a click on and the upkeep report knowledge is pushed robotically from Kongsberg Okay-Fleet. When the equipment upkeep audit is requested by the vessel operator, a Bureau Veritas Surveyor will log into BV’s Machinery Maintenance Application and generate the upkeep report for the time interval in query with the most recent knowledge acquired, prepared for assessment. Okay-Fleet will then proceed to replace with new knowledge on an everyday time schedule till a brand new request for annual, occasional or renewal audit is acquired.
SIGNIFICANT STEP FORWARD
Laurent Hentges, VP digital options & transformation at Bureau Veritas Marine & Offshore, mentioned: “This is a big step ahead in supporting ship house owners, operators and managers with their equipment upkeep necessities. Jointly developed by Bureau Veritas and Kongsberg, it’s a nice instance of how two main digital options could be built-in to fulfill the wants of vessel operators.
“This collaboration with Kongsberg additionally highlights our ambition to reap the benefits of new know-how and knowledge change to advance digitalization to assist class surveys, in addition to assist our purchasers with their digital transformation.
“Our aim is to replicate this first connection done with Furetank with other ship owners and CMMS. Data acquired will also open the door for data analytics and optimized maintenance models in the future.”
Sanna Tovar, technical coordinator at Furetank, mentioned: “We continuously strive towards utilizing new technologies and developments which make our ship operation safer and more efficient. The possibility to share the information from the vessels’ PMS directly with Bureau Veritas class surveyors will improve our work towards safer shipping and optimise our onboard surveys as the surveyor can come onboard better prepared, thus allowing the survey to focus on items not already available through the system.”
BV MACHINERY MAINTENANCE APPLICATION
The new answer builds on BV’s Machinery Maintenance software (MMA) which was launched in 2022. This digital software connects on to ship operators’ Computer Machinery Maintenance System (CMMS) and helps them transition to optimised equipment upkeep schemes.
In order to sail safely, all vessels should bear common surveys of their equipment gear and techniques. However, most fashionable ships have greater than 300 separate items of equipment onboard, every with its personal particular upkeep necessities. This poses a problem for house owners, operators, and managers on easy methods to conduct equipment upkeep usually, but additionally effectively.
In a conventional equipment upkeep scheme, this course of is completed by means of an in-person survey of all equipment objects by a BV surveyor as soon as each 5 years, in the course of the renewal survey. But right this moment, a big a part of the world’s fleet is utilizing extra optimized survey schemes resembling Continuous Survey Machinery scheme (CSM) or a Planned Maintenance Survey System (PMS).
Bureau Veritas’ MMA connects the ship operators’ upkeep system with BV’s personal system, facilitating the event of a Planned Maintenance Survey System (PMS) plan with on-line guided reserving. It collects knowledge on the upkeep standing of all equipment objects, manages modifications to onboard gear, and gives entry to producer manuals. This allows ship operators and BV surveyors to get a transparent and complete overview of onboard equipment upkeep, effectively put together for surveys and assess the equipment upkeep situations.
