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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ment, maintenance and monitoring func- sel generator engine running for 6,000 nance is need after 3,000 or 4,000 hours. them. We’ve already seen the need for tion are much reduced. It also ensures hours a year, the manufacturer’s manual The ship will tell them. The kind of in- mobile capabilities, diverse availability that the business can better understand will typically recommend an overhaul sight provided by these newly intelligent models that include software as a service the full impact of any change in routing, at 16,000 hours. The frequency is based vessels not only creates huge ef? ciencies (SaaS), and greater use of private and for example, or the true opportunity cost on observation over time, convenience in the operation of each ship, but can public clouds, but the step-change ahead of taking a vessel out of operation. and necessary risk aversion. But with help optimise the way that almost every is of a much greater magnitude.

Equally, technologies that support the right analytics capabilities in place, aspect of the business is run. However, the possibility of a more health, safety and environment monitor- the maintenance schedule can be ? nely Again, shared experience comes into streamlined and less hazardous opera- ing, or risk and liability management, tuned to match the actual demands of the play for those software companies em- tion and the potential to create a more for example, can be added on to an asset individual engine. It could, for example, bracing the IoT. Tha t experience and the ef? cient and cost-effective business will management system, as can management run for an additional 4,000 hours before pace of new software will help the mari- only be realized if the asset management of change (MoC) and incident manage- a maintenance overhaul. This just-in- time industry simplify the collection, system and other core platforms have ment (IM) modules. Maritime operators time maintenance capability results in a analysis and insight of its operational these forward-looking capabilities built using systems with all these capabilities much more ef? cient use of spares, time data. in. Any upgrade of technology has to be included have already seen a reduction and resources. Multiplied over an entire made with an eye on a very different IT in the total cost of technology owner- ? eet it can produce a signi? cant cost sav- Data Assurance and Deployment future. ship, as well as ef? ciency improvements ing. With signi? cant bene? ts to be gained It’s no longer about nice-to-have fea- to their operations. from the ability to collect and analyze a tures or simply greater performance and

The Internet of Things variety of data, the means of deployment throughput. The opportunity is there to

Bigger and Bigger Data These are all signi? cant and transfor- also comes under the spotlight. There’s completely rethink what asset manage-

The third big trend that has almost mative technology trends. But the big- little to be gained from analyzing asset ment platforms could be capable of, come to dominate the IT industry is that gest disruptor of all is the Internet of telemetry data for trends if the data-set is assess what different vendors can offer of big data – and again it has positive im- Things – which itself is set to increase incomplete because different parts of the over the long term, and envision a truly plications for forward-looking maritime the volume of data available by order of organization are on different versions of IT-enabled maritime business. operators who can discover, release, pro- magnitude. the software. At this point in the IT cycle, an up- cess and analyse vast amounts of data In the industrial sector, the possibili- Systems based on web technology grade is no longer just an upgrade. It is from their operations. This data can be ties opened up by attached intelligent overcome this problem and give ? eet the start of a complete business transfor- transformed into invaluable information sensors to ‘things’ – devices, plant or operators a greater ability to respond mation. and insight into even the most obscure equipment that until now have not been quickly and easily to the increasing pace areas of activity. With greater business computerized or part of a data network of technological change and software re- intelligence available, remaining traces – connecting them together, extracting leases. Instead of deploying a series of of guesswork or assumptions are being previously unavailable information and system upgrades to individual operating eliminated from the decision-making analyzing it, often without human inter- locations, web-based technology enables

The Author process. vention, is the future of computing. Ana- these operators to install a new version

Now that the data genie is out of the lysts at IDC predict that approximately to all sites from a single, central location

Steve Driver is Managing Director of SRO bottle, all kinds of possibilities are open- 212 billion connected “things” will be – which makes it easier to ensure the

Solutions Ltd. As a quali? ed marine engi- ing up. One of the more interesting for installed worldwide by the end of 2020. bene? ts of the new technology are being neer, Steve has spent most of his career the maritime industry is the move from What this means for the maritime in- seamlessly adopted. in the marine & offshore sector, helping planned to predictive and proactive dustry is that ships could be become organizations develop and implement maintenance. self-contained ? oating networks, trans- The Blueprint for the Future their use of various IT systems. He set

A typical maintenance schedule might formed by analytics, machine learning, It is hard to overstate the nature of the up SRO Solutions, a Gold accredited IBM involve a regular and predetermined plan and self-healing capabilities. In the fu- changes taking place in IT capabilities

Maximo business partner, in 2005.

to strip down an asset, overhauling it and ture, engineers won’t need to proactively right now, or the effect they will have on putting it back into service. For a die- monitor data to ? nd out whether mainte- businesses that choose to engage with Request for Quotations

For one (1) each of:

USCG/SOLAS Type Approved Rigid-Hull Fast

Rescue Boat &

Cradle Style SOLAS Rescue Boat Davit (single-point lift)

These are for the University of Hawaii’s R/V Kilo

Moana. Items shall be fabricated and shipped in ready-to-install form, with delivery to Honolulu,

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Quotation Closing Date and Time:

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