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REPAIR & CONVERSION TECH FILES a safe environment.” After experience

Installing the System

While no two ship repair jobs are the is established within the core team, the same, neither are two ship repair yards. system can be scaled out across an en- tire organization.

“Expect about a month long imple- mentation at the minimum, in terms

Future Direction of rolling out a solution,” said Malan-

The good news with technology is that che. “You can turn on technology very quickly these days, and we do, but if it constantly evolves with increasing you don’t factor in the training of your speed. The bad news with technology is that it constantly evolves with increas- personnel, the processes that you’re try- ing to implement, and the successful ing speed. “Our phase one is to provide transition of that onto the ? rst projects the tools to the industry that have been or availabilities, you’re going to set lacking,” said Malanch, a problem that up your customer for failure, and you he reckons extends globally. “We are

Image courtesy Oxalis are not able to get the true value out of focusing on data, data capture, data

Micah Waldstein, Director of Product

Management, Oxalis.io. these tools and systems.” That baseline entry, and making sure that it’s really of one month can extend to multiple good quality for the business to un- months depending on the customer and derstand what they’re doing and how this kind of product line to support the the size of the ship repair organization. they’re doing it. The next big capability deep analytics and predictive capabili- is to allow those businesses to leverage ties that everybody’s talking about with

Another factor is the number and di- versity of teams tasked with using the their own data in their own proprietary machine learning and arti? cial intelli- solutions in the ? eld. “We have seen a way, to do more predictive analytics, to gence,” said Malanche. “You don’t just understand where their business is go- go to that, you have to start with data successful pattern of building an under- standing of the core capability, training ing and to have tools that help inform capture. So we see a roadmap, multi- and allowing the teams to familiarize them of the right next step. With strong year, that’s going to really advance and themselves with the tools in a sandbox, data, you are in a position to enhance transform this industry.”

OSRS with TIP Integration

Oxalis.io added new functional- ity to its Oxalis Ship Repair System (OSRS) system, providing tools and guardrails for the maritime industry to meet the challenges of 009-04 regu- lations that require yards to use the

Navy Maintenance Database (NMD) for all Test and Inspection Plan (TIP) reporting. The implementation is projected to save shipyards tens of thousands of dollars in recording er- rors and additional staff required for added data entry.

Oxalis Ship Repair System (OSRS) is an off-the-shelf technology solution purpose-built for shipyards to man- age repair processes. Fully integrated with the Navy Maintenance Database (NMD), OSRS coordinates collec- tion, management and communica- tion of key repair processes from one central hub. www.marinelink.com 41

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