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THE ENABLERS OF MARITIME POWER

Construction of a IPC for Republic of Seychelles Coast Guard at NBBY
Machinery Testing and Trials Unit (MTTU)

The aim of establishing MTTU is to predict machinery failures in advance
using appropriate techniques and assist to re-structure/plan repair and
maintenance strategies accordingly. The unit was initially established in
year 2012 at SLN Dockyard, Trincomalee and was helpful in cutting down
huge costs involved with Planned Preventive Maintenance (PPM), failure
risks with Breakdown Maintenance (BM) which are labour intensive and
ineffective in identifying problems that develop between scheduled
inspections.

Alternatively, by introduction of a suitable Condition Based Predictive
Maintenance (CBPM) programme, it assures optimal utilisation of
machinery since it evaluates the condition of equipment by performing
periodic (offline) or continuous (online) equipment condition monitoring.
The ultimate goal of the approach is to perform maintenance at a
scheduled point in time when the maintenance activity is most cost-
effective and before the equipment loses performance within a
threshold. Most predictive inspections are performed while equipment
is in service, thereby minimizing disruption of normal system operations
resulting in substantial cost savings and higher system reliability.

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