New Software Aims to improve Fuel Efficiency, Reduce Unnecessary Maintenance

by Ship & Bunker News Team
Friday September 25, 2015

New condition-monitoring software is aiming to make ships "smarter" by improving fuel efficiency and reducing unnecessary maintenance, Lancaster University announced this week. 

The university said that UK-based James Fisher Mimic (JFM) had collaborated with Lancaster University Professor Xiandong Ma to create a new "mimic" software that allowed companies to base their maintenance on condition and performance, rather than putting a ship out of commission unnecessarily through scheduled maintenance. 

It added that though condition monitoring had previously been used for other aspects of a ship, interest was only growing now for using the technology to monitor fuel performance. 

Based on the outcome of the collaboration, both the university of JFM said that they would continue working together on future projects. 

“This research has helped enormously with deeper signal processing than was currently undertaken and has resulted in a deeper understanding of machinery fault situations," said Martin Briddon, Engineering Manager of JFM.

"We are now able to use the knowledge and information to develop new ways of searching for machinery faults amongst a clutter of normal operational data.

Earlier this month, Ship & Bunker reported that a new report had predicted that the ships of the future would be taking advantage of new technologies to become smarter, data driven, and more digitally connected. 

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