Improvement of planned maintenance system onboard ship

Planned Maintenance System is the backbone of any shipping organization that aims for higher safety and performance values. The obligatory rules and regulations and insurance pressure also forces their hand on higher standards in proper maintenance onboard vessels. The improvement of such systems requires process analysis methods that are easier to run via software contribution. Furthermore a broken system or failure to abide by a given system could result in incidents that would be reflected in the revenue of the company. As in all other industries, it is of utmost importance that the maintenance costs can be controlled and minimized in the maritime industry. This aim can only be achieved with planned maintenance system which was created modern, sistematic and inovative approaches. This research aims to define and analyze to the planned maintenance systems and choose optimum decisions for ship maintenance.