Document management tool for the maintenance of vessels

Abstract

Due to the own activity of the vessels, these are forced to carry out very demanding maintenance policies and surveys. The success of the maintenance process is interesting for all agents of the maritime transport chain; from the loader, interested in the goodness of the transport conditions, to the authorities watching over the safety and prevention at sea. The maintenance policy in the vessels is mainly determined by the mentioned authorities through rules and codes. Therefore, in order to accomplish with the minimum standard legally demanded, those responsible for maintenance must be currently informed of the application of these rules (and their consequences) to the vessels and to the vessel equipment. However, due to the heterogeneity of the sources of maintenance re-quirements and the different scope of them, this task is highly complex. Thereby, the aim of this paper is to develop a tool able management document to intrinsically relate maintenance information with the operating and dimensional characteristics of the vessel. The results pro-vided by the tool will be particularized to the user’s searched objective. The user will be able to easily ac-cess, analyse and detect the necessary documentation for the design of a maintenance scheduling.