First-ever remote MPMS survey to enable condition-based monitoring

Klaveness Ship Management (KSM) has received class approval from DNV-GL after remotely conducting a machinery planned maintenance system (MPMS) survey.

DNV GL’s surveyor sat in an office in Oslo, Norway, while the chief engineer of KSM’s caustic bulk vessel Ballard used remote screen sharing to present the vessel’s planned maintenance system and onboard maintenance routines from Bahrain. Prior to the survey, KSM provided the DNV GL surveyor with a video recording of a traditional engine room inspection.

KSM intends to implement condition-based monitoring onboard its ships. In order to achieve class notation for condition-based monitoring, MPMS notation must be in place necessitating an initial MPMS survey onboard some KSM vessels.

Remote surveys can reduce cost for shipowners by eliminating surveyor travel expenses, and the procedure offers the possiblity for surveys to be completed in part or, potentially, in their entirety while the vessel is at sea. 

On its blog, Klaveness said it would continue to investigate additional survey elements that could be carried out remotely in partnership with DNV GL.