Machinery Planned Maintenance Scheme
Increased benefits through links to class
Maintenance requirements will vary considerably from ship to
ship. Some shipowners will operate basic planned maintenance
systems, others more sophisticated condition monitoring-based
systems. Lloyd's Register approaches machinery surveys on a
flexible basis, so that they can be planned to fit with your
existing schedules and business processes.
What is Machinery Planned Maintenance Scheme (MPMS)?
The Machinery Planned Maintenance Scheme (MPMS) is an
alternative means for ship operators to meet classification
requirements for their ship's machinery, through alignment and
integration with their existing machinery maintenance
programme.
Your chief engineers are able to undertake the examination of
selected machinery items as the ships staff follow their routine
maintenance. Our role becomes one of verification, taking the form
of a single annual machinery audit and general examination. In
addition, our PMS Interactive service enables satisfactory
examinations by chief engineers to be reported through ClassDirect
Live as soon as they are carried out.
What are the benefits?
- Using a planned maintenance scheme increases confidence in the
safety and reliability of your ships and reduces the risk to
operational performance.
- MPMS causes fewer disturbances to operational activity.
- These benefits can be maximised by integration of MPMS with
similar schemes for hull maintenance.
How does Lloyd's Register help?
Moving towards condition-based maintenance
No one wants to waste resources on unnecessary
maintenance work. A maintenance programme tailored to operational
performance trends, demonstrated by individual items of machinery,
means that intervention only happens when records indicate that it
is necessary and not at arbitrarily chosen intervals.
By evaluating the condition monitoring information, we can work
with you to reduce the extent to which machinery is opened up for
survey. This approach can be applied to a wide range of rotating
and reciprocating shipboard machinery, including tail shafts and
main steam turbines.
Reliability-centred maintenance (RCM)
Further optimisation of your maintenance programme can be
achieved by basing it on RCM analysis. The technique uses a
structured assessment of functions to derive the best maintenance
strategy. We have extensive experience of reviewing and approving
RCM studies of marine equipment.
What next?
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