Maintenance Strategy Optimisation (MSO)

A structured approach to effective maintenance management

Ensuring reliability and integrity of the structure, systems and equipment of your vessel through effective maintenance management is fundamental to achieving today's safety and environmental performance standards.

Ensuring reliability and integrity of the structure, systems and equipment of your vessel through effective maintenance management is fundamental to achieving today's safety and environmental performance standards.

There is a constant need to balance maintenance against resource constraints, which often compromises the effectiveness of the maintenance programme and can increase the risk of equipment failure.

What is MSO?

MSO is a process that helps you determine the most efficient and effective maintenance techniques, producing a maintenance strategy that is geared specifically to your operations.

For this to take place a review of your current maintenance programme needs to be undertaken and the results are then compared to maintenance management best practice to help identify potential areas for improvement.

How does Lloyd's Register help?

Tailored solutions
Your maintenance programme will be produced based on your specific needs and objectives, and taking account of best practice. You will be able to draw on our wide experience and understanding of the various maintenance management techniques available and the consequences of their failure.

Maintaining operational safety and integrity
Unlike the application of calendar-based maintenance schedules, we look at both the likelihood and consequence of failure when determining your maintenance programme. This will help ensure the most efficient and effective solutions provide reliability.

Using our structured approach will:

• help you to comply with the maintenance and reliability requirements of OCIMF's Tanker Management Self Assessment guidelines

• help you to ensure that maintenance tasks are focused on the actual needs of the equipment rather than the assumptions of a third party - potentially reducing the intervention and resources required

• facilitate the adoption of condition-based maintenance rather than the application of condition monitoring.