How to improve the availability of ships - a life cycle management guidance system

A manageable over-all solution for a ship's life cycle management as well as an organizational and a software integration of life cycle management systems is a lack in maritime industry today. A so called life cycle management system which combines and analyses the appropriate data results in a reduction of costs for the ship's operation, servicing, maintenance and repair. By using the guidance system, servicing cycles can be adapted tailored to the ship's needs and maintenance activities can be executed quick and targeted. Damages will be prevented because of an in time replacement of component parts, too. Further more, repairs are executed quicker and cheaper and the costs for the ship's recycling will be reduced finally.