Populating maintenance systems for newbuilds automatically at Mastermind Shipmanagement

The webinar, dedicated to “populating maintenance systems for newbuilds”, was a success, attracting a significant and qualified number of shipowners, manufacturers and IT companies. The high level of interest and active discussion among participants confirmed the relevance of the topic and the value of the initiative.

Summary of the Webinar content:

Marco Vatteroni, secretary general of Shipdex, did a quick recap of the scope of Shipdex and presented the latest version of Shipdex Viewer 4.1 to navigate and use technical data in Shipdex format. This has two new features: the ability to combine maintenance task data with maintenance data feedback, and the ability to automatically assign functional codes to every physical component before importing it into a Maintenance System or ERP.

The Shipdex Viewer 4.1 will be available for free download within February on www.shipdex.org.

 Capt. Eugen-Henning Adami, managing director of Mastermind Shipmanagement of Cyprus reported that they are building a 43,000 dwt multipurpose bulk carrier and a 1,300 TEU geared (crane) container vessel. To make it easier to put together the maintenance management system for the new vessels, Mastermind required the shipyard and vendors to provide all maintenance related data in Shipdex format.

Shipdex is an open standard based on the aviation and defence industry S1000D, an XML standard for publishing technical information about a product.

Capt. Adami presented the story of how it went and their expectations. Mastermind Shipmanagement develops new ship designs with yards in Japan and China.

 Henrik Dan Kaspersen, Shipdex executive member and Everllence Shipdex Competence Center, talked about the benefits of a closer collaboration among providers, customers and IT companies, facilitated by Shipdex as an open, maritime industry standard, seen from maker’s side.

Henrik also informed that

  • Shipowners are entitled to free-of-charge Shipdex datasets for Everllence 2-stroke engine
  • IT companies may receive free-of-charge Everllence Shipdex data sets for feasibility study of their electronic data interface to their Maintenance Systems or ERPs. Contact shipdex@everllence.com to initiate such study.

The webinar recording here: