MAN ES – Shipdex: Boosting digitalization in the maritime industry with free datasets.
MAN Energy Solutions offers a free ShipdexTM dataset to build-up the digital maintenance structure for newbuildings with MAN Energy Solutions’ two-stroke engines.
With ShipdexTM, you can transfer digital information directly from OEMs and into owners’ planned maintenance systems (PMS), see Fig. 1.
Thereby, a digital database can be generated without the need to re-engineer the product knowledge of the OEM. This cuts time and efforts, provides uniform data quality, and ensures the most precise product information.
As a founding member of www.shipdex.org, MAN Energy Solutions has keenly contributed to developing and implementing the non-proprietary standard ShipdexTM to support the comprehensive digitalisation of the maritime industry.
“Digitalisation impacts all industries, and the scale, rate, and speed of implementation depends to a large degree on the availability of standardisation,” says Bjarne Foldager, Head of Two-Stroke Business. “We are demonstrating our strong commitment to digitalisation by delivering large volumes of data according to the non-proprietary Shipdex standard – a core enabler of digitalisation in the maritime industry.”
The dataset will be available around the test bed date of the engine/first engine in a series, and enable a build-up of the PMS maintenance structure digitally, see Fig. 2.
Already ordered newbuildings which have not yet passed, or have only recently passed, the mentioned test bed are also entitled to a dataset.
Shipowners are encouraged to request the dataset free of charge at shipdex@man-es.com.
If you have any questions, or wish to receive further information, contact us at henrikd.kaspersen@man-es.com.
Fig. 1: Replacing traditional pages by a digital data flow from the OEM to the owners’ dynamic planned maintenance system
Fig. 2 shows the data structure in the free ‘Shipdex Viewer’, which is available with demo packages on https://ww2.shipdex.org/shipdex-viewer/
Fig. 2: Data structure in Shipdex Viewer
Reference: MAN Energy Solutions Service Letter SL2024-761/HDK
