New Approaches to Through-Life Asset Management in the Maritime Industry

Autor: Karl A. Hribernik, Christian Norden, Clemente Fuggini, Zied Ghrairi
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Through-life Engineering Services ISBN: 9783319121109
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-12111-6_24
Popis: European shipbuilders are facing a strong, worldwide competition. Innovation is often discussed as the key to increase the competitiveness of the European maritime industry. However, the market penetration of innovative technologies is difficult due to higher investment costs and uncertainty regarding functionality, reliability and reparability of the new technology resulting in an overall higher risk. Consequently, new approaches for through-life asset management have to be established to achieve a successful market introduction of innovative technologies. Therefore the European funded research project ThroughLife pursues the development of promising and innovative new technologies on the one hand and the identification and elaboration of new approaches for through-life asset management with the overall goal to optimise the lifecycle performance of vessels on the other hand. One of the most promising ThroughLife asset management approaches is to transfer the concept of comprehensive after sales services, like a “worry free” service package established in the automotive and the aeronautic industry, to the maritime industry. It is expected that the implementation of this business model would lead to significant lifecycle cost savings for the ship operator and arises the opportunity to enhance the business area of repair or new building yards. Moreover the holistic lifecycle services would also foster the market introduction of new technologies by reducing the uncertainty about proper maintenance and repair of innovations. As a result, the business model implementation could end up in a win-win situation for all involved stakeholders. However, in the assessment of the full service business model implementation barriers like difficult cost calculation and the dependency of the lifecycle cost from the vessel treatment have been identified. The application of comprehensive condition monitoring offers the opportunity to control the vessel treatment and to gather relevant information about the vessel to optimise the expected lifecycle costs and the corresponding service fee. Moreover applying condition monitoring enables additional benefits like the potential to optimise the maintenance and repair scheduling based on the actual and predicted condition of the component/system on the vessel. The chapter introduces the mythology of how the combination of the full service business model with comprehensive condition monitoring adds value for all involved parties and leads to an overall improved lifecycle performance of vessels to strengthen the European maritime industry.
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