Practical guides, ISM compliance, planned maintenance and lessons from the field — everything you need to run your fleet like a professional.
Maintenance accidents are preventable when isolation procedures are disciplined and crew certificates are verified before the job is assigned. See how Smart Sailors, your marine CMMS, centralises and secures these critical steps by turning paper documents into binding digital workflows. Time-stamped isolations, automatic qualification checks and safety data sheets available offline on any mobile device: move from theoretical risk to real-time control on board.
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The paper engine log eats time and invites errors, exactly when an inspector asks for a figure. See how Smart Sailors, a marine CMMS built for the sector, turns the engine room logbook into a digital tool that cuts the administrative load on duty engineers and guarantees data integrity for Port State Control audits.
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Ashore, a breakdown costs hours of downtime. At sea, it costs a port call, a tow, sometimes a detention. This guide gives the equation that decides the move to condition-based maintenance on a vessel: which assets to monitor, with which technologies, what classification societies will credit, and how to put figures on the return across a fleet.
Read the articleAn effective Preventive Maintenance Plan (PMP) has to be built on a clear method, in four key steps, and driven from a single CMMS. Learn how to classify your assets with the ABC method, choose the right maintenance tasks (calendar-based versus condition-based), optimise scheduling and steer performance with the essential KPIs (MTBF, planned maintenance percentage). The goal: reach 85% planned maintenance to maximise reliability and cut costs.
Read the articleDiscover how to digitalise maintenance across your fishing, cargo or offshore fleet in 4 strategic steps. From asset mapping to KPI-driven optimisation, this guide takes you towards management that is modern, cost-effective and compliant with maritime regulations.
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Discover how to optimise spare parts management for vessels on long voyages. Smart Sailors, a marine CMMS, turns your onboard stock into an intelligent remote warehouse with multi-location tracking, automatic alerts and streamlined purchasing from the ship.
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Once you have decided to equip your vessel with CMMS software, you still have to find the one that fits you best. Here are the criteria to know before choosing the CMMS that is right for you.
Read the articleCosmetic and technical standards, short intervention windows, fast crew turnover, REG Yacht Code and ISM: yachting stacks the constraints. This guide explains how to structure superyacht maintenance with a CMMS — equipment hierarchy, job procedures, spares, certificates, budget — and includes a typical season maintenance plan by system.
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Spreadsheets still run maintenance on thousands of ships, and for good reason: free, familiar, flexible. But past the third vessel, diverging versions, lost history, missed certificate dates and unreliable stock cost far more than software. Breaking points, comparison table, cost calculation and a clean migration path.
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Intermittent connectivity, crew rotation, the ISM Code, logistical remoteness: maintenance on board is nothing like factory maintenance. This pillar guide explains what a maritime CMMS is, breaks down its architecture module by module, puts real figures on its ROI and sets out how to implement it without getting it wrong.
Read the articleA complete method for choosing a maritime CMMS: a 32-criteria scorecard in 6 families, weighting and scoring rules, trap questions for vendor demos, a reusable RFP template, the red flags that should stop a deal, and a worked 3-year total cost of ownership model for a six-vessel fleet.
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L'objectif du Code ISM est de fournir une norme internationale pour la gestion et l'exploitation sûres des navires ainsi que pour la prévention de la pollution. On vous explique tout sur son fonctionnement dans un court article écrit par nos experts.
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