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A history of Jo Tankers is given and their maintenance philosophy and objectives are outlined - maintenance management maintenance engineering maintenance execution and reporting performance monitoring maintenance analysis and continuous improvement. Additional pages with copies of OHP slides are included with the paper.

Contents are divided in two parts. Part 1 deals with Maintenance and covers the following chapters: Introduction; Preventive Maintenance and Management of Maintenance; The layout and composition of a maintenance workshop; Maintenance of Electrical Equipment; Breakdown forms; Key Machines; Trouble-shooting; Gear and Bearing Failures; Machine tool lubrication; Oil Stores Practice; A computerised preventive maintenance scheme; Cost control; Acceptance tests and testing equipment; Installation of machines. Part 2 deals with Rebuilding and is comprised of the following chapters: Introduction; Procedures for replacement and/or Repairs of components parts; Realigning machine tools after machining slideways; Hydraulics; Electric Motors and Control Gear; Testing; Fitting shop; Machine Shop; Cleaning and painting; Converting to the Metric System; Costing; Personnel.

Second Intl conf held in London 19-20 Feb 1986 Papers are The challenge of port maintenance in developing countries Technical and economic value of the expertise in maintenance gained from North Sea structures A history of corrosion protection of a North Sea platform Subsea structural strengthening and repair for offshore steel structures Inspection and maintenance of North Sea concrete platforms Maintenance of ports overseas-East Africa Protective structural systems Port maintenance today Low-maintenance concrete specification versus practice? Effective use of divers and remotely operated vehicles offshore Underwater weld and tensioning repair to a North Sea platform Major repairs to a loading quay and approach bridge Repair of marine structures Design of the Thames Barrier for maintenance Operational weight engineering-a unified approach to the complete structure Maintenance of submarine pipelines

To overcome problems in the present maintenance management system for marine machines a selective maintenance strategy is proposed. The strategy considers the advantages of diagnostic maintenance scheduled maintenance and breakdown maintenance and attempts to optimise the requirements of different equipment and different situations.

Conference held in Bristol on the 20-21 May 1987 Papers are Maintenance dredging and spoil disposal at UK ports Field measurement and predicting channel sedimentation The economics of port maintenance dredging by contract or direct labour Forms of contract and methods of payment Methods of measurement for payment purposes Marina dredging The selection of plant for maintenance dredging The effective deployment of trailing suction hopper dredgers in the Port of Rotterdam The use of ploughs or bed-levellers in maintenance The effective deployment of bucket type dredgers Current and future developments in dredging plant for maintenance dredging Overview of dredged material disposal options or alternatives The future for disposal of dredged material in the UK

The cost of maintaining the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) can be reduced while still meeting operational requirements. The RAN now ensures that vessel maintenance is now directly linked to operational need. Trials with HMAS Tobruk validate the new policy and show that maintenance costs can be reduced by 15% while sustaining current Chief of Defence Force Readiness Requirements. This paper reviews the RAN's maintenance development and implementation project which uses a systems analysis approach to determining maintenance requirements.

CBM (condition-based maintenance) strategy for asset management is becoming more cost-effective than routine scheduled maintenance. Optimal maintenance scheduling is an important issue for CBM since it can further reduce the operating cost while retaining satisfactory reliability. A 3-phase stochastic model for investigating different failure patterns of industrial equipment is proposed and optimising their maintenance frequencies based on sensitivity analysis of major parameters. Effects of certain critical cost ratios on the cost-optimal maintenance rates under resource constraints are also discussed. Based on simulations some guidelines to select the optimal maintenance frequencies in different periods during the equipment lifetime are presented. Conclusions are drawn and future work is identified.

It is the aim of this guide to explain the key issues of hatch cover security and to steer mariners towards active maintenance of hatch covers. It is less expensive to keep hatch covers weathertight by regular maintenance and attention to detail, than to pay claims for wet-damaged cargo. It is crucial for safety at sea and protection of the environment to maintain hatch cover weathertightness and strength. This guide concerns steel hatch covers fitted with cleats, compression bars and gaskets.

The review presented covers present problems including the economics of maintenance growth of automation engine room manning and sensing and data logging techniques. Planned maintenance comprising information gathering and regular inspection and overhauling and condition monitoring using sophisticated sensing facilities to measure performance deterioration are discussed. The new approach considered involves the design for maintenance condition monitoring data extraction and comparison integration of new procedures into the classification requirements and education of ship's personnel.

Provides a description of operation and maintenance of Foster Wheeler marine boilers 'D' Type, the most complete installation of which includes a superheater and economiser with, in most cases, an air heater also. Part 3 covers Boiler operation, Part 4 covers Maintenance. There is also a section showing tools and spare parts and their quantities, which are suitable for ships fitted with one or two boilers. The back of the booklet provides illustrations.

While shore based industries have benefited from Predictive Maintenance techniques and supporting hardware/software for many years the marine engineering industry has until recently felt this technology was unsuitable to their environment. The objections are listed. This is followed by a consideration of the solutions to these objections. Next the benefits of such systems are discussed and the future is touched upon.

It is argued that it is essential to have men with a broad knowledge of engineering processes and operations, in order to ensure that the engineering industry of Britain maintains its fine traditions. This set of books has been written as a repository of such knowledge for men to avail themselves of. The present work, Newnes Complete Engineer, has been divided into four volumes, Volume 1: Workshop Processes and Methods, Volume 2: Machine Tools and Production, Volume 3: Erection and Installation Work and Volume 4: Operation and Maintenance. Volume 4 includes chapters on cold-start oil engines, indicator tests on diesel-type engines, operation and maintenance of steam engines and boilers, gas producers (types, operation and maintenance), care and maintenance of turbines and condensing plant, injectors, ejectors and water heaters, simplified fuel and gas testing, feed-water regulators, oil fuel and oil-fuel burning, mechanical draught, reducing valves and desuperheaters, water treatment, the modern stationary steam boiler, pulverised-fuel firing, hydraulic machinery, the operation and maintenance of power hammers, testing of lubricating and fuel oils, operation of electric winders, pumps and pumping, electricity in engineering workshops, materials testing, hydraulic presses, hydraulic shearing machines, marine heavy oil engine, refrigerating machine, oxy-acetylene welding in the shipyard and De Laval centrifugal separators.

The book covers a wide range of classes and types of pumps, along with specific and exact operating and maintenance instructions. It is divided into 3 parts: the first deals with centrifugal pumps, with six chapters devoted to installation, operation, trouble shooting and maintenance of these pumps. The second and third parts of the book cover rotary and reciprocating pumps and again, instructions and illustrations are given for installation, operation and maintenance of a wide variety of these types of pumps. The last chapter looks at various phases of pump maintenance control.

The airline industry offshore industry and many other land-based industries recognised that the main function of maintenance was to provide the reliability in order to reduce the risk of system failures and the overall cost of operating a facility and that the process involved should be centred around this i.e. Reliability-Centred Maintenance (RCM). First attention is given to the background of RCM. This is followed by consideration of technological risk assessment - RCM concept.

Optimisation of maintenance and replacement actions has been one of the major problems in the marine industry. Traditional replacement and maintenance models usually assume unlimited capital. However ship operators are frequently restricted by limited maintenance and investment funds. Under budget constraints the replacement and maintenance decisions must be determined simultaneously. Interdependence of decisions significantly increases the computational difficulty. The authors describe an integer programming model and discuss a Langrangian-based methodology with an example. The model is applicable to the maintenance and replacement of a single ship as well as an entire ship fleet considering different options under budget constraints.

The book is comprised of the following papers: The care and maintenance of marine boilers The combustion of fuel in marine boilers The running and maintenance of steam reciprocating machinery The running and maintenance of marine steam turbines The running and maintenance of marine electrical machinery The running and maintenance of marine diesel engines The running and maintenance of marine refrigerating plant Pumping arrangement Steering gears Fire fighting equipment and its use in ships.

This book is intended to fulfil the need of a better training into the “how” and “why” of maintenance management. It is aimed primarily at the seafarer, and also at shore-based superintendents. Contents include: The importance of effective maintenance management; planned maintenance; spares control; system types; relevant management principles; shipboard management; requirements of regulatory bodies; conclusions for the future.

Traditionally maintenance on board ship has always been carried out empirically mainly based on the recommendations of the manufacturers and/or the requirements of the Classification Societies. This approach does not necessarily lead to the minimization of the life cycle costs of the ship. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the potential for optimizing the maintenance costs when the operating data already available in the onboard maintenance management software are correctly interpreted statistically and used in the appropriate models.

A series of articles on repair and maintenance includes: Why are cryogenic repairs still getting the cold shoulder? - a review of cryogenic pipe freezing for isolating a faulty valve or section of a pipeline whereby the section of the pipe to be isolated is sealed off by freezing the fluid on either side of the site by attaching a container or jacket filled with a cryogen such a liquid nitrogen; CD-ROM aids shipboard maintenance - a review of Eldoc (electronic documentation) a multimedia computer interface for engine maintenance documentation; Maintenance becomes more essential as computers increase in complexity - a review of the use of shipboard computers and the problems associated with them.

Conf held 16-17 February 1994 in Aberdeen UK. Papers are - Latest thinking on maintenance strategies and tactics - the major issues How when and why to use RCM - what's new and good How when and why to use TQM - going beyond the buzz word Cost- effective progress in the maintenance of generators Maintenance in hazardous zoned areas Pressure test acceptance criteria of well head equipment Safety considerations and maintenance practice