Shipdex can now send maintenance data back to manufacturers
Shipdex, a standard for transferring maintenance data and instructions between equipment manufacturers and shipping companies, is now able to transfer data back to manufacturers.
Until now, it was a one-way system, for manufacturers to provide shipping companies with maintenance instructions and data in a structured format, which would be easier to work with than paper or pdf technical manuals.
The ‘back channel’ standard, called Shipdex-F, where F is for feedback, enables maintenance-related data to be sent by shipping companies back to manufacturers.
Manufacturers might want this data so they can know about any failures of their equipment in use. They might, in this case, want to know whether maintenance was done according to their instructions, or if the correct spare parts were added.
This data could be used by manufacturers to continually improve the quality of their products, and their maintenance plans, and better improve their estimation of mean time between failure (MTBF) and MTTR (mean time to resolve).
Manufacturers can use the data to do an analysis of the operation and maintenance performance of all of their equipment and improve their support.
Manufacturers already developing systems to accept data in the standard include MAN and Win-GD.
How Shipdex works
Shipdex is an independent and non-proprietary standard protocol, open to all maritime stakeholders. It was created by the non-profit Shipdex organisation. The web page is Shipdex.org.
Shipdex data is shared in a structured format (xml), rather than in Word or pdf, which are normally used for documents.
By sending data in a structured format, the receiving software can more easily work out what information the user needs, without needing to understand the specific structure of the document (chapters and paragraphs).
The data can be automatically loaded into maintenance and enterprise resource planning systems, and only needs to be loaded in once.
The maintenance instructions and data can include instructions on how to do the maintenance, how to do specific jobs, and what spare parts need to be used.
Easier to manage
The structured data format makes maintenance instructions and related data easier to manage, compared to sending it as part of lengthy documents.
If there is any update to the data, only the relevant data needs to be updated.
There can also be systems for translating text and approving individual sections of content, rather than having to deal with an entire manual at once.
The final manual or instructions can be assembled within the shipping company’s software, based on whatever layout is most useful to them, without affecting the data.
The standard for the transfer of documentation and spare parts data from the manufacturer to the shipping company is called Shipdex-D, where D stands for documentation. It is based on the S1000D system used in the aviation industry.
The standard for data feedback from the shipping company to the manufacturer is called Shipdex-F. It is also based on an aviation industry standard, called S5000F.
(source: The Digital Ship magazine)
MV Chiapas Star – Delivery
We are happy to announce that on the 26th of October at 13:13 lt Piraeus, Greece, the delivery of MV Chiapas Star (ex. Mohawk) was successfully concluded and the vessel has entered into MSM management.
Beginning of November she will enter into a one-year time charter with Messrs. CMA CGM, trading in East Africa.
Thank you to all who was involved in this successful take-over.
MSM Ltd. and DESMI Ocean Guard signs an Agreement for 13 BWMS
Mastermind Shipmanagement Ltd., Navkratis Ltd., and DESMI Ocean Guard A/S are pleased to announce that MSM has selected the CompactClean Ballast Water Management System (BWMS) for installation on its owned fleet consisting of dry-bulk, break-bulk, multipurpose vessels, and cement carriers.
The agreement is to provide 13 CompactClean BWMS and engineering services to the modern fleet of MSM. Most of the ships will be retrofitted with the new CompactClean Bulker that is optimized for operation of bulk carriers and other vessel types that can benefit from increased flowrate when discharging ballast water. The bulker solutions also enable optimized performance when the BWMS is operating in IMO waters.
Click on below link for full press release.
Mastermind Shipmanagement Ltd and DESMI Ocean Guard signed a Frame Agreement
MSM JOINS AAL FLEET WITH TWO ‘G-CLASS’ HL MPVS
AAL Shipping (AAL) is taking delivery of two additional ‘G-Class’ multipurpose heavy lift vessels, expanding its core fleet to 720,200 total deadweight (DWT). The Pacific Action and AAL Gladstone have both served in the AAL fleet in the past and re-join later this month – the former renamed this week, ‘AAL Gibraltar’. These versatile and relatively young vessels feature a total cargo intake of 35,705 cubic meters, four large cargo holds, three tweendecks and a maximum lift capacity of 240 tonnes – ideal for trading all manner of project heavy lift, breakbulk, steel and dry bulk commodities. They join one of the sector’s largest and youngest fleets that already consists of two sister vessels, AAL Genoa and Pacific Alert (TBN AAL Galveston) and will operate worldwide in support of AAL’s well established monthly liner services, regular trade routes and tailormade tramp chartering solutions.
Kyriacos Panayides, Managing Director of AAL, commented, ‘We are delighted to have secured these vessels. Large heavy lift multipurpose ships of this calibre and lifting capability represent a small fraction of the global MPP fleet and AAL is uniquely well experienced in optimising their operations and harnessing their strengths in order to generate value for our customers’ global trading demands. They will add much needed capacity to a portfolio of multipurpose shipping services that have grown exponentially over the past 12 months.’
‘Since February 2020, we have built a scheduled monthly liner service between Europe, Middle East and Asia, a regular monthly tramp service between Asia and the Americas and frequent sailings from Asia to Europe – all this in addition to our Asia- Australia Liner Services and global Tramp Chartering operations. It has been an extremely busy and sustained period of growth for AAL and these new ladies will help to drive that momentum forward.’
Marc Willim, General Manager of AAL’s Chartering Team, added, ‘The G-Class are large 25,800 dwt MPVs, that complement our fleet profile. Global trading is only now emerging from the negative impact of COVID and also important multipurpose cargo sectors like oil and gas are still pressured. However, there is growing optimism and the recent surges in the container and commodity markets have demonstrated the importance of being flexible and ready to serve cargo demand and from wherever it may come.
‘We are seeing market economies begin to strengthen and rebuild in confidence across Europe, Middle East, Asia and the Americas and trade war machinations of 2020 resolve. Energy, steel, infrastructure, bulk and general cargoes are all trading worldwide. Carriers like AAL, that have the expertise, trade route infrastructure and fleet capability to parcel these big and small cargoes on the same sailings and deliver worldwide will be in a position to offer shippers timely solutions and highly competitive economies of scale.’
www.aalshipping.com
Mastermind Shipmanagement navigates with SAP Solutions!
How Mastermind has achieved Clarity & Scalability across multi-country operations with SAP
The Mastermind Group (MSM) was founded principally as a ship-owning company that later expanded into ship-management. MSM technically manages a fleet of more than 20+ vessels, which consist of dry bulk, break-bulk and multipurpose vessels.
MSM prides itself in being very innovative and instrumental in developing its new ship designs with shipyards in Japan and China. The yards have eventually succeeded, delivering more than 50 vessels to various ship-owners worldwide. The company is dedicated to safety and quality, always minding the protection of the environment. MSM is determined to safely “Navigate Ahead” to the fullest satisfaction of its customers.
Mastermind Shipmanagement was looking for a comprehensive solution to power their businesses
However, existing software was neither flexible nor scalable enough to adapt to the changing operating environment and company growth. There was also lack of integration across all business units, leading to inefficiencies and silos of information in bespoke systems. Furthermore, proprietary financial system was difficult to maintain and upgrade, along with lacked insights to the financial information of its network.
Why choosing SAP and Supernova Consulting?
Supernova Consulting managed to successfully establish a management of MSM processes and information systems in one platform. That included: solution scalability, enterprise-wide and real-time operational visibility along with multi-company support with cross-company processes.
Captain Eugen Adami, Managing Director of Mastermind Group said: “We needed world-class software to support the changes in our operating environment and support our company’s growth. We knew about SAP but did not have the resources for a long implementation project. With the support and commitment from our Partner, Supernova Consulting, we managed to implement SAP® ERP Central Component (ECC) in 8 weeks with minimum resources.”
The fixed budget, combined with the minimum resources, made the fast implementation in 8-weeks possible. There was integration with AMOS® ship management and procurement software. Additionally, senior executives were on-board with their commitment and support.
A comprehensive, integrated industry solution
With SAP® ERP Central Component (ECC) solution, Mastermind Group gained operational efficiency with an affordable, right-sized solution that help them manage information flow and harmonize business processes.
MSM managed to improve financial management, maintain operational excellence, enhance agility, streamline and complete a process from end to end, by driving adoption and improving productivity.
Benefits:
- Maintain operational excellence
- Streamlined day-to-day operations
- Able to extract up-to-date information
- Increased productivity and data accuracy
- Reduced duplication of data
Objectives and Challenges
Mastermind Shipmanagement has a desire to build a future-proof system that will enable the company to grow. They also wish to improve information flow by integrating all business units on a centralized business platform.
Lastly, their main goal regarding their information, has been focused in real-time and in-depth presentation, in order for the executives to make accurate and beneficial decisions.
www.cyprusshippingnews.com