Marine Maintenance Technology International - April 2016

MARINE MAINTENANCE WORLD EXPO CONFERENCE 2016 (^) ⠿
http://www.MarineMaintenanceWorldExpo.com
MARINE MAINTENANCE TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL | APRIL 2016 ⠿ 55
availability and lifecycle costs of the assets are
then optimized in the results.
2:50pm – Continuous maintenance
using smart technologies
David Knukkel, CEO, RIMS BV, Netherlands
In addition to traditional maintenance strategies
like corrective and preventive maintenance
based on time, hour or condition, new
technology facilitates a new strategy, known as
continuous maintenance. Much technology is
already available in the market, but fragmented
and not specified for the specific application. The
challenges and possible solutions to make it
happen are very interesting.
3:15pm – Warships: innovative through-
life support
Ian Cowper, warships head of platform
engineering, Babcock International Group, UK
There are many challenges in delivering
warship support against the backdrop of
increasing resource constraints and the high
operational tempo of the fleet. The Royal Navy
requires more agility from industry to support
the vessels both at home and deployed, yet we
have the problem of balancing capability and
capacity against efficiency measures. This
drives the need to better understand ship
material state and shift to a predictive support
model for determining system and equipment
failures. The paper explores the innovations
Babcock is introducing to transform material
state data into decision information to reduce
risk and improve support planning.
3:40-4:10pm – Break
4:10pm – Reliable and valuable vibration
monitoring in the marine industry
Wim Boertjes, manager, offshore and marine,
Pruftechnik NV, Belgium
The presentation will discuss reliable and
valuable vibration monitoring on critical
machinery in the marine industry, with a
practical case study of a CBM implementation
on board an offshore vessel.
4:35pm – Fleet operations/management
systems
John Straughan, managing director, Tero
Marine UK Ltd, UK
The presentation will discuss how an efficient
and well-managed fleet management system
can significantly reduce operational costs,
including unification of maintenance, inventory,
cost control and procurement processes. We
will look at how Tero Marine has taken steps to
allow current users and potential users to utilize
a robust and transparent system that reaches
far beyond the management of a vessel and has
significant benefits throughout an organization.
What is the subject of your presentation?
I will be discussing the latest advanced ship inspection technologies,
and how DNV GL is stepping forward in using advanced technologies
to facilitate smart ship inspections. Among them are robotic in-water
surveys, drone-supported tank inspections, camera-based inspection
recordings, and targeting inspections with fatigue analysis-based data.
All these steps are aimed at making surveys more effective and more
efficient, while also making the survey and inspection work safer.
What are the key advantages of using drones rather than humans, when
inspecting tanks?
At DNV GL we currently see drones as an extension of the surveyor’s
ability to see, in particular in remote places that are difficult to access
without staging or rafting. In the future, robotic sensor platforms offer
two principal additional advantages compared with a surveyor: they are
not affected by hazardous atmospheres, and can use other parts of the
spectrum, such as infrared, to possibly enhance the observations.
Do you foresee a future where robots and drones could eventually
replace human labor in marine inspection?
Robots will complement human surveyors for the foreseeable future.
At DNV GL we see that both surveyors and robotic sensor platforms
will do different parts of the job. Today, a surveyor with his accumulated
experience can easily assess the overall condition of a tank while a robot
is good at systematically recording tank condition details. Robots will
start to replace surveyors for inspections in hazardous environments
and for remote installations.
Will physical inspection be required in a future where machines and
computers self-report and share information via the Internet of Things?
In the future, the condition of systems will be monitored by two principal
and complementary approaches: continuous monitoring using sensors,
and period inspection using surveyors or robotic sensor platforms. \
Speaker spotlight
Dr Pierre C Sames, group technology and research director,
DNV GL, Germany
Tuesday, June 21, 2:00pm
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