The Nuts & Bolts of Shipdex™ - EMEC

The Nuts & Bolts of Shipdex 

Marco Vatteroni 

ILS manager 

SpecTec Group Head Office 

Shipdex Conference • 16 February 2010 • Augsburg, Germany 

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SpecTec Group 

� Created in 1985 in Oslo, Norway 

� Joined OSE in 1995 

� Bought by KPN (Dutch Telecom) in October 2000 

�� MMergeddto bbecome XXantic i (W (World’s ld’ llargest ITC company 

in the Maritime world) 

� AMOS business carved out and bought back by 

Giampiero Soncini (CEO) with two partners in May 2005 

� World’s largest IT company in shipping (50% of market 

share), and a major player in oil&gas 

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SpecTec Group & AMOS 

SpecTec 

provides 

• Maintenance 

•Spare Parts control 

software and •Purchasing 

services in the • Quality Assurance Control 

field of Asset •Data Entry and Analysis 

Management: •Crew management g 


249 

direct 

staff 

SpecTec Group today 

22 offices 

worldwide (all 

fully owned) in 

16 countries 

Presence 

in 27 

countries 

Over 13.000 

Amos 

installations 

sold, 7000 

active 

worldwide 

Over 35.000 

maintenance 

staff trained 

worldwide 

Amos Suite installed at: 

• Ships and shipping 

companies 

• Oil & Gas drilling 

platforms and 

exploration sites 

• Navies 

• Power stations 

• Paper mills 

• Ports 

• Buildings 


My recent jobs 

� SpecTec p Group p ( (3.5 y years): ) 

o Integrated Logistic Support (ILS) manager 

o Shipdex Protocol Author and Technical Manager 

o Shi Shipdex d representative tti at t S1000D St Steering i CCommittee itt 

� Fincantieri – Italian Shipyard (5 years): 

o IT manager at ILS Department 

o Italian representative at “S1000D Sea Publication Working Group” 

o Fincantieri representative at “CALS Italia Project” for Italian Ministry of 

Defence 

o Technical manager of the “Italian Navy Technical Publications Working 

Group” for developing the S1000D based new regulations 

o PM of f technical t h i lpublication bli ti projects j t based b don S1000D standard t d d 

� Italian Navy “new aircraft carrier Cavour” project 

� Italian‐French “Horizon Frigates” project 

� Italian‐German “U212A submarines” project 


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Conclusions 

� Shipdex is an electronic protocol to 

exchange g technical information 

among the whole shipping 

community 

� I prefer to consider it as a new 

methodology gy to dramatically y 

improve the quality of relationship 

among all shipping actors 

Shipdex is a new first step into a new “shipping era” 


The Shipdex protocol 



� Shipdex is the International Business Rule (The Protocol) to be 

applied to ASD S1000D issue 2.3 to standardise the 

production d ti andd th the exchange h off ttechnical h i l dt data within ithi th the 

shipping community 

�� Th The scopeoff Th The PProtocol t l iis tto standardize t d di th the dt data exchange h 

related to the information currently supplied in the form of 

Technical Manuals (on paper or in electronic format) 

� Shipdex exchanges data in a neutral and standardised format 

(XML). This means that it can be implemented by anyone on 

different Information Technology systems 

� The collection of technical data for a given product is called 

“Shipdex dataset” 



� A Shipdex dataset can be composed up to the following 

Information Sets: 

o Description and operation: descriptive and operational 

information 

o Maintenance procedure: p for maintenance tasks information 

o Troubleshooting: for troubleshooting information 

o Illustrated parts p data: for spare p parts p information 

o Service Letter: for changes information (to be completed) 

�� Customers can decide which Information Sets are required for a 

specific product/contract 



� Every Shipdex information set is governed by a specific 

ASD S1000D 2.3 XML schema (to be considered as a 

mandatory template) 

� Every Shipdex information set is composed of XML Data 

Modules (data granularity) and related information 

objects (illustrations, audio, video in different electronic 

formats) and external documents (in PDF format) 

� Theabovestructureallowsthesamesourcedatatobe 

reused several times for different purposes/customers. 

This is the WORM concept (Write Once Read Many) 



XML 

Data Modules 

Information 

objects 

External 

ddocuments 

Source Technical Data Contract Data 

Data Module List (DML): 

• List of supplied DMs 

• List of supplied 

physical components 

• PPort/Ship t/Shi 

configuration data for 

every supplied physical 

component 



� Datasets produced by different manufacturers have the same 

standardised structure and contain the same information 

ttypologies l i ( (same quantity tit and d quality lit of f data), d t ) based b don the th 

specific XML schemas 

�� Datasets are developed in XML format and contain only 

technical information (content separated from the layout) 

�� Datasets layout is automatically generated applying style 

sheets for paper (pdf) and/or video representation 

� Datasets produced by different manufacturers will have the 

same layout, based on the selected style sheet 

� The same source data can be used to produce different 

Shipdex datasets for different customers 


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Manufacturer 

A 

Just one layout ! 

Manufacturer B 

Datasets 

Style S l sheet h 

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SYSTEM 

SUBSYS A SUBSYS B SUBSYS C 

SUB 

SUBSYS A 

SUB 

SUBSYS B 

UNIT A UNIT B UNIT C 

DC 01 DC 02 DC 03 

DESCRIPT 

DESCRIPT 

PROCED 

PROCED 

IPD 

DMs 

IPD 

DMs 

DESCRIPT 

PROCED 

DESCRIPT 

PROCED 

DESCRIPT 

PROCED 

IPD 

DMs 

IPD 

DMs 

IPD 

DMs 

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DESCRIPT 

PROCED 

IPD 

DMs 

DESCRIPT Supplier 

PROCED 

Source 

DESCRIPT IPD 

DataBase 

DMs 

PROCED 

(CSDB) 

IPD 

DMs 

DESCRIPT 

PROCED 

IPD 

DMs 

Information Sets 

• Selection 

• Extraction 

• Port/Ship data 

Shipdex 

Dataset 

“A” 

Shipdex 

Dataset 

“B” 

Full ASD S1000D compliance Full Shipdex p compliance p 



COMPONENT 

The Port/Ship Port/Ship configuration configuration data (DML) 

Port ID Port 

Location 

PORT/SHIP CONFIGURATION DATA 

IMO 

Number 

Functional 

code 

Part Number Serial Number 

CYLINDER FRAME 123456789 3201002 PNAAA111 01 

CYLINDER FRAME 123456789 3201003 PNAAA111 02 

CILINDER FRAME 123456789 3201004 PNAAA111 03 

CYLINDER FRAME 12345 K23Y2 PNAAA111 06 

Supplier’s 

responsibility 

ibili 

Customer’s Customer s responsibility 

Supplier’s 

responsibility 



Enhanced 

Shipdex Dataset 

Supplier’s Supplier s 

C t ’ 

Database 

(CSDB) 

Port/Ship 

Config 

Data 

Customer’s 

Database 

(CSDB) 



Customer’s 

Database 

(CSDB) 

SCORM CBT 

Tomorrow ! 

ERP 

CMMS 

Technical 

Publications 



Service 

LLetter 

Supplier’s 

001 

Database 

(CSDB) ( ) Service 

Letter 

005 

Customer A 

Database 

(CSDB) 

Customer B 

Database 

(CSDB) 



Advantages g for Suppliers pp 

� Possibility to interface with Engineering and ERP systems 

�� Standardisation of technical data production 

� Possibility to convert legacy manuals to Shipdex 

� Improved p Service Letters management g 

� Electronic storage in a structured CSDB 

� Possibility to use the same source data (information sets) 

stored into the CSDB to produce different outputs (paper (paper, pdf 

and electronic manuals or Shipdex datasets) for different 

customers 

�� Possibility ibili to change h ( (and dcustomize) i ) manuals l llayout only l 

changing style sheet 

HIGH GLOBAL QUALITY at t LOW COSTS 



Advantages g for Customers 

� Lower cost of technical information 

�� Technical information coming from different manufacturers is 

standardised in: 

� Structure and composition 

�� CContent 

� Electronic format (users will use just one browsing system) 

� Layout 

� Data integration between technical information and CMMS, 

ERP, etc. 

�� Reduced maintenance task duration thanks to faster possibility 

to retrieve information inside Shipdex datasets (or CSDB) 

� Reduced risks to use not updated information 

�� Posibility to build “Technical Technical Publications” Publications for specific needs 

HIGH GLOBAL QUALITY at LOW COSTS 


The goal to be achieved 


Market acceptance 

Advanced IT _ Ship Convergence Center of Korea Maritime University University KR 

Alfa Laval Tumba AB Manufacturer SE 

ATLANTIC CONTAINER LINE Ship‐owner US 

Cit Citec IInformation f ti Oy O Ab SService i PProvider id FI 

CORENA IT company DK 

CORENA Beijing Representative Office IT company CN 

CORENA Canada Ltd. IT company CA 

CORENA Danmark A_S IT company DK 

CORENA Deutschland GmbH IT company DE 

CORENA Norge AS IT company NO 

CORENA Sverige AS IT company SE 

CORENA USA Inc. IT company US 

Daedalus Aerospace Ltd Service Provider GB 

Elomatic Consultant FI 

FINNLINES Ship‐owner FI 

Germanischer Lloyd Class. Society DE 

Grimaldi Compagnia di Navigazione S.p.A Ship‐owner IT 

Ibruk as Service Provider NO 

Intership Navigation Co. Ltd Ship‐owner CY 

KJ RADIO CO., LTD IT company KR 



Kongsberg Maritime AS Manufacturer NO 

MacGREGOR (SWE) AB Crane division Manufacturer SE 

MacGREGOR (SWE) AB Roro Division Manufacturer SE 

MacGREGOR (SWE) AB Selfunloaders Manufacturer SE 

MacGREGOR Group Manufacturer FI 

MALTA MOTORWAYS OF THE SEA Ship‐owner MT 

MAN Diesel Manufacturer DK 

Mi Minoan Lines Li Shi Ship‐owner GR 

Navalimpianti S.p.A. Manufacturer IT 

Rederi AB Transatlantic Ship‐owner SE 

RINA Class. Society y IT 

Sorman Group IT company SE 

Sorman Information AB Consultant SE 

SpecTec AB IT company SE 

SpecTec AS IT company NO 

SpecTec Asia Pacific Pte Ltd IT company SG 

SpecTec GmbH IT company DE 

SpecTec Group Holdings Limited IT company CY 

SpecTec Limited ‐ Cyprus IT company CY 

SpecTec Limited Branch Office Croatia IT company HR 

SpecTec Ltd IT company GB 



SpecTec S T Middle Middl East E t IT company AE 

SpecTec S.p.A. IT company IT 

SpecTec, Inc. IT company US 

Tecnimpianti S.p.A. Manufacturer IT 

United Arab Shipping Company Ship‐owner AE 

UpTime Solutions AB IT company SE 

Vector Marine Software IT company GR 

Yanmar Co. Co Ltd Manufacturer JP 

ABS NAUTICAL SYSTEMS IT company US 

TKMS BLOHM ‐ VOSS NORDSEEWERKE GMBH Shipyard DE 

MARINESOFT CO. IT company KR 

ROLLS‐ROYCE MARINE Manufacturer f 

GB 


Shipdex projects in progress 

� Grimaldi Compagnia di Navigazione has started the “First 

Shipdex Ships” project on 5 Finnlines ships already in service 

� Grimaldi Compagnia di Navigazione is requiring Shipdex 

datasets for the new ships under construction 

� Intership Navigation is requiring Shipdex datasets for the new 

ships p under construction 

� United Arab Shipping Company is requiring Shipdex dataset 

for 9 new ships under construction 


Shipdex Shipdex is FLYING ! 

Join the Shipdex Shipdex community 

by registering 

your company 

at 

www.shipdex.com 

Let’s et s ta take e off o 


Conclusions 


Many thanks 

For your kind attention 

Any questions ?

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