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4th Optimising Ship Maintenance25th, 26th & 27th January
2011
Hotel Rotterdam Blijdorp, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
IHC Merwede is more than a shipyard, building complex custom
build Dredging, Mining andOffshore ships and equipment. Life cycle
engineering and accompanying life cycle supporting
programs are integrated in products of IHC Merwede to ensure
that the total costs ofownership of our products are minimized and
optimal performance can be realized. As suchIHC Merwede considers
condition monitoring surveys as a key instrument in line with
the
corporate IHC Life Cycle Support strategy. On many ships IHC
Merwede provides off line andonline condition monitoring programs.
Depending on the customer requirements IHCMerwede can be involved
complete until a small part of the program and analyzing
theresults. Customers can use this tool to optimize their
maintenance and make the operation
more predictable. IHC Merwede integrates the worldwide feedback
into its continuousimprovement of the design of ships and
systems.
The main techniques used for monitoring by IHC Merwede are:
vibration measurements,
thermography, oil analysis and electrical measurements. In order
to submit a completeprogram for the entire vessel, IHC Merwede
realized partnerships with worldwide expert
partners as Pruftechnic for vibration measurements and Bakker
Sliedrecht for electricalmeasurements. The expert knowledge of
these partners, in combination with the design
knowlegde, building knowhow, worldwide operational feedback and
global presence of IHCMerwede, yields to an unique combination
which can assist customers in identifying problems
on board and take care of repairs and possible modifications on
board. In this way it isensured that a customer can be assisted
from begin till end in continuous improvement of his
equipment.
Since many suppliers are nowadays offering products with
integrated condition measurementsystems, there is a need that these
systems will be integrated in the right way in the final
design of ships. IHC Merwede as a shipbuilder can play an
important role in helping in themaritime industry to optimise the
integration of Condition Monitoring systems and discuss
this kind of topics with its suppliers. By taking much imitative
regarding the use of conditionmonitoring systems, IHC Merwede can
actively help that certain sensors will be installed inthe earliest
stage of the ship building, which will remarkably safe costs
compared toinstallation of these systems in a later stage.
By analyzing condition measurement data for a long time now, IHC
Merwede is building on asignificant experience. There are many
situations where good analyzing is found to be
difficult. One of the bottle necks can be the organization
around condition monitoringprograms. Examples will be given about
problems which can occur. Also analyzing is notalways the same as
the theories prescribe. In practice there can be a lot of factors
which caninfluence the behavior in an unexpected way, and sometimes
the reason of a different
behavior can be hardly be found or not found at all, for which
some examples will be shown.
Cases from practice learns that for the complex equipment on
board, it is much morevaluable to use only the best quality of
monitoring systems, it is easy in almost all cases toearn the
(mostly accompanying) higher costs of this equipment back.
In the future IHC Merwede is continuously looking for optimizing
integration of all shipssystems where integration of the relative
new condition monitoring systems plays an
important role. For IHC Merwede condition monitoring is a major
instrument to assist itscustomers to reduce the Total Costs of
Ownership and optimize the performance of thevessel.
