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Planned hull Inspection and Maintenance System

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Purpose

Owner's tool for asset integrity management of a ship's hull.

Benefits

PIMS (Hull) will improve the hull asset management by close systematic monitoring of the ship's hull condition. It allows for the early detection of defects and a unified cross-fleet approach to the inspection, reporting and maintenance of a ship's hull. It will also improve the quality and efficiency of crew inspections.

Features

A ship-specific inspection manual, training of crew and audit of the system's performance.

  • A ship-specific hull inspection manual will specify intervals for hull inspections, how to report the inspection results, how to rate defects and acceptance criteria for defects and a guide to the critical areas for each separate ship based on a review of the design, as well as of the damage history when relevant

  • Hull competence - training is provided to the ship's crew by a combination of Computer- Based Training and classroom courses, with a focus on the main competence elements in order to carry out the safe and efficient inspection of and reporting on hull structures.

  • Annual audits of the system's performance are carried out with a focus on the implementing the inspection scheme, including the formal training and competence of the crew conducting the inspections. The audit may also be used as a benchmark for the description of the onboard conditons by the class surveyor and crew. This enables the office to obtain an independent verification of the performance of the system implementation on board, as well as of the commitment and attitude of the crew.

Testimonials

German container ship operator: "The implementation of this scheme has been a great success for us."

Process

PIMS (Hull) implementation will normally be carried out as follows:

  1. Development of the Hull Inspection Manual and a review by DNV (This will normally take 3-6 months)
  2. Training of personnel that are assigned to carry out PIMS (Hull) inspections
  3. Implementation of system on board/ashore
  4. Periodical annual audits of the system

The interval between the PIMS (Hull) inspection manual being ready and the training and implementation being carried out is normally about 6 months. The total time from the order request to implementation audit is 9 months to one year.