Giampiero Soncini

CEO SpecTec Group

Moving ahead with technology in shipping

Creating the Intelligent Ship

Who am I

Giampiero Soncini

Born 6th January 1954 Graduated in Electrical Engineering in Pisa – 1979

Expert in Noise & Vibration and Asset &

Maintenance Management

Italian Navy Officer – 14 years

NATO Ship Manager – 13 years

SpecTec (since 1998):

MD Italian office

VP South Europe

VP sales worldwide

CEO since 5 May 2005

ITN FRIGATE “GRECALE”

NATO RV “ALLIANCE”

What is SpecTec

• Maintenance

• Spare Parts control

• Purchasing

• Quality Assurance Control

• Data Entry and Analysis

• Crew management

SpecTec provides

software and services in the field of

Asset Management:

SpecTec Today

290 FTE

25 offices worldwide

(all fully owned) in

17 countries

Presence in 31

countries

7890

Amos active

Over 40.000

maintenance staff trained

worldwide

Amos Suite installed at:

• Ships and shipping companies

• Oil & Gas drilling platforms end exploration sites

• Power stations

• Paper mills

• Ports

• Buildings

29mU$

Consolidated

Revenue

2011

Shipping today

We have seen incredible

changes in the space of just

36 months.

These changes have hit us

because they happened in

such a short period of time,

and they involved $$$

But have we noted the

changes which have

happened in the last 30 years

in shipping?

Shipping 30 years ago

IMO rules:

SOLAS, LL66, MARPOL, 73/78

Trade Union rules:

STCW74

Government rules: none

Company rules: none

Charterers rules: none

Shipping today IMO rules:

SOLAS

ISM code 1 and 2

ISPS

LL66

MARPOL 73/78, MARPOL Annex VI (SECA)

Government rules:

OPA90, SOPEP, ERS, PSC (MOUs),

Ballast water, Garbage and Used oil management

Company rules: QA

Charterers rules: Vetting, Underwriters, OCIMF TMSA, CDI

“Trade Union“ rules: STCW95

A nightmare!!!

Why all these rules? Titanic: SOLAS

Ecological disasters:

Exxon Valdez (OPA90)

Prestige & Erika (Erika packages I, II, III, creation of

EMSA)

Mismanagement and neglect:

Herald of Free Enterprise

Scandinavian Star

Estonia (ISM code)

September 11: ISPS

Pollution: MARPOL Annex VI

Shippingbecame a

non trustedindustry

30 years of changes

From a simple, almost deregulated

industry

To a complex, veryregulated industry

And it will get worse……..

Facts are though…..

That the industry is NOT changing. It HAS

changed

Which means that shipowners, operators and

suppliers, must change too

This means changing the way we have worked

so far. We have to follow more rules and become

more organized

And changes are always very difficult in any

organization

The help of Software

With a good software, it is possible to manage a

fleet much more effectively, and to control all

activities in a very efficient way

But implementing a software which controls:

Maintenance

Spares and Stocks

Certificates

Purchasing

Budgets

Drydock

Vetting

TMSA

Non conformities

Accidents

Inspections

Crew details

Crew movements

Procedures

Information flow

Etc. etc. etc

IS VERY DIFFICULT!

Moving ahead

We are in 2011, yet so many things are still done as

20 or 30 years ago

All of us use Amazon, E-bay, I-pad etc... In other

words, we are very modern in our free time, but very

obsolete when we work

Ships cannot be managed any more like in the past:

in few years, there will be few people left who will

want to go on board. We need to change the

approach

IT can help, but only if this is understood at all levels

in a shipping company

Creating the Intelligent Ship

An Intelligent Ship is one where all main

Functions are stored and controlled centrally,

filtered and transmitted ashore for knowledge,

evaluation, control and, where needed, action

These Functions are:

Main equipment health status (PMS and CBM)

Fuel and luboil consumption

Navigation data, including position

Weather data and forecast

Reports on Quality, Safety, Crewing and Procurement

issues

The Intelligent ship

LinkedNavigation

Quality & Safety

Machinery

Weatherreporting /

status

Reportsand PRs

The Intelligent ship

LinkedAIS

Vessel Positioning

AMOS

Q&S

AutomationPlant

AMOS

M&P - CBM Sea state

WeatherRouting

AMOS KPIs

Reports and PRs

The data structure

The technology

It is allavailable

today

It isstate-of-the-art, no need

toreinventanything

It just has to beapplied

But it alsohas to beproperly

understoodand

managedby crews

and managers

Example – Yang Ming

Using Weather

reporting, AIS, Vessel

Tracker and Google Map

to track all vessels

In the future, it can be

linked with AMOS to

visualize specific alerts

on Maintenance, Spares

or Purchase order

situations

Example – Yang Ming

Using Vibration

monitoring for

continuous vibration

alerts, for instance on

Turbo Chargers

Data is stored in

AMOS and sent

ashore for analysis,

or if needed can be

sent directly in

batches

Example – Princess C.

Data can be drilleddown to verify thespecific frequencies

Machinery control –Carnival UK

Example – MES approach

Example - GrimaldiThis is a (static) sample of analysis dashoard: aggregated indicators +

option to access detailed information (cube reports)

Example - GrimaldiProcurement Analysis – Dashboard and Cube report

Data – Data - Data

We are in the era of New Technologies, but Technical Handbooks are

still written the same way as 60 years ago!

Inserting Data

Inserting Data into a software:

is complex

is difficult

is long

Must be done properly!!!

Wrong data = Desperate User

TIME TO CHANGE

There is now a

Solution to create

Technical Manuals

in electronic format

and port data into a

system like AMOS

Shipdex is a set of international business rules developed

to standardize and improve exchange of technical

information between ship owners and equipment makers

It enables equipment makers to structure and deliver instruction

manuals content in a standard electronic data format

Shipdex data offer ship owners the opportunity to eliminate or

reduce the traditional pain and high costs when loading ERP

(Enterprise Resource Planning) and CMM (Computerized

Maintenance Management) systems with manual content

The ERP/CMM systems must become compliant for exchange

of Shipdex data

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What is Shipdex

What is Shipdex

IMPA 2010 Conference, London 29

An S1000D customization for the shipping community

What is Shipdex

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Now it covers air, land and sea environments and issponsored by:o ASD AeroSpace and Defence Industries of Europe

o AIA Aerospace Industries Association of America

o ATA Air Transport Association

It is worldwide recognized as the international TechnicalPublication Specification for the military and civilaviation communities

Shipdex™ has been granted an Observer status atS1000D Steering Committee, an evidence thatShipdex™ has been recognised and accepted by theS1000D community

S1000D is the former “AECMA - Association

Européenne des Constructeurs de Materiél

Aérospatial“ Spec 1000D (issued about 25 years

ago for the European aero-space market)

UASC

UASC is building 9 14.000 TEU ships at Samsung

Shipyard in Korea

All Databases will be built according to Shipdex

MAN has already started converting all its engines to

Shipdex format: downloading a full engine,

maintaning the complete Database structure (of

Amos or any other compatible CMMS), takes 5

minutes

Not only the DB is the one of the manufacturers, but

in most cases it is delivered free of charge to owner:

cost of DB will soon disappear

The future

The future in IT in shipping is in our minds:

We need to actively change the way we work

We need to know what we want to achieve with IT

We need to consider it as a tool and not as an end of

all problems

We need to consider it as a service and not as a

product

We need to budget for it

We need to understand that Data is the most important

item, and thus adopt Shipdex

Beware

In the West (Europe and Usa), we have become

VERY complacent and we think that our jobs are

safe

Asia and now South America are moving ahead at a

mind-boggling speed, while Europe and Usa are

walking at the speed of a dead snail

Education is perceived as paramount in Asia, while

the education levels of Western schools is faring

very pporly in all contests

Beware

The West has the experience and the competence

which lack in the EMERGED countries, but the gap

is filling up very quickly

In less than 10 years from now, Digital Ship will read

like this: 数字船舶

We will survive only if we become

extremely efficient; and to do this

we need to use IT to the maximum

extent