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Develop a Condition Based Maintenance model for a vessel's main propulsion system and related subsystems
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Anantharaman, MP and Lawrence, N, Develop a Condition Based Maintenance model for a vessel's main propulsion system and related subsystems, Maritime Navigation and Safety of Sea Transportation, CRC Press/Balkema, A Weintrit & T Neumann (ed), The Netherlands, pp. 235-238. ISBN 978-1-138-00105-3 (2013) [Other Book Chapter]
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Abstract
Merchant shipping has undergone a great transformation over the past three decades. The
shipping market is highly competitive, which coupled with high crewing and fuel costs, leads to high
operational costs. One of the paramount factor involved in vessel operation is the Maintenance cost and there
is a dire need to keep this cost to a minimum. Fortunately the earlier policy of repair only maintenance in
commercial shipping has been done away with, and was replaced by the policy of preventive maintenance.
Planned Maintenance System was introduced by ship management companies in the early 90’s. Planned
Maintenance offered benefits over the repair only policy, but has its own demerits. Many a time machinery
equipment is opened up for routine maintenance after a specified time interval, irrespective of the need. This
could lead to potential failures, which is explained by the fact that preventive maintenance resulted in
meddling of a well set piece of machinery equipment, leading to its subsequent failure. This is where
Condition based maintenance or CBM steps into prominence. CBM monitors the health of the machinery
equipment, analyses the condition and helps you in decision making. Accordingly a ship’s engineer may
decide to stop the running machinery equipment, open and overhaul the same, else postpone the overhaul for
a later safe date.
Item Details
Item Type: | Other Book Chapter |
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Keywords: | Condition Based Maintenance, Merchant shipping, Planned Maintenance |
Research Division: | Engineering |
Research Group: | Maritime Engineering |
Research Field: | Marine Engineering |
Objective Division: | Transport |
Objective Group: | Water Transport |
Objective Field: | International Sea Freight Transport (excl. Live Animal Transport) |
UTAS Author: | Anantharaman, MP (Dr Mohan Anantharaman) |
UTAS Author: | Lawrence, N (Associate Professor Norman Lawrence) |
ID Code: | 85406 |
Year Published: | 2013 |
Deposited By: | NC Ports and Shipping |
Deposited On: | 2013-07-04 |
Last Modified: | 2014-08-25 |
Downloads: | 0 |
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