Marine Maintenance Technology International - April 2016

MARINE MAINTENANCE WORLD EXPO 2016 (^) ⠿
MARINE MAINTENANCE TECHNOLOGY INTERNATIONAL | MAY 2016 ⠿ 47
The innovations for the HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft
carrier are being undertaken within the Surface Ship
Support Alliance with BAE Systems and the MoD.
Therefore, answering questions on this would need to
be done collaboratively. However, suffice to say we are
working closely to ensure many of the common issues,
such as understanding platform materiel state and
shifting to predictive support planning, are key tenets
of improved through-life management for all classes.
What are the common naval maintenance issues?
As ships age, there is an increasing challenge to
determine the degradation of structural integrity.
Consequently, there is often an increase in growth
during upkeep due to unforeseen structural repairs,
often discovered through intrusive surveys. This adds
significant risk to certainty of delivery. The planned
maintenance only accounts for approximately 60% of
the total package (scheduled maintenance and
capability upgrades); the remainder is effectively
emergent or extra work. The drive is to reduce the
amount of unplanned work to around 15% through
improved demand and supply planning.
How does Babcock’s solution improve support
planning – can you give some key examples?
Babcock has introduced a through-life innovation
program under Project ATHENA to use state-of-
the-art innovation and technology to make better use
of our expertise and to make a step-change
improvement in the through-life management of our
complex assets. It focuses on a better understanding of
various materiel states through improved data capture
via a dynamic survey team, improved decision support
through data fusion, analytics and modeling, and
improved through-life demand and supply planning. \
Workload forecasting
Tero Marine // Stand: M6020
Tero Marine has created a forecasting module available
in version 2.655 and higher of TM Master V2. It performs
theoretical calculations of the true workload
for a specified time period in the future, as well as the
associated spares, costs and man hours required to
carry out that work.
All calculations are based on the component jobs
within the database, their current status (last done) and
the information attached to those jobs (required spares,
personnel and other costs).
In the long term, a customer can save substantial
operational costs as they can prepare in advance what
spare parts, consumables and time will be required to
perform required ‘due’ jobs.
To achieve the best results from the forecasting
module, a thorough review of all component jobs is
recommended. The standard minimum information
on each job should be supplemented with which spare
parts are required for each job, which personnel are
required and the estimated hours, as well as any other
costs that can be estimated.
The benefits of using this module within TM Master is
that the user can gain a foresight into which months are
going to be expensive and when a recruitment drive
may be needed to bring in extra labor.
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