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quality and co-ordination.
"If you had around 100 vessels in your
fleet, you could be collecting and using
information on 700 forms per day," director
Panteleimon Pantelis said. So organising
this information is clearly a priority. A
maritime system such as Ulysses organises
the information relevant to role, task
and context.
Accident investigation
Accident reports can be compared with the
crewing model enabling the shore staff to see
which seafarers, vessels etc have had the
most accidents and analyse the reasons why
to prevent similar situations occurring again.
The results can be saved as a 'Word'
document, or in an Excel spreadsheet.
Several reports can be compiled using the
stored data, such as a list of injuries,
accidents, non-compliances, records of chart
and publications upkeep, plus seafarers
qualifications and certificates, among others.
For example, seafarers' cargo operation
experience can be recorded and ascertained
using the seafarer audit voyage management
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system, which will give all the relevant details
of his or her records, qualifications and
certificates and even which type of vessels
they had previously served on.
The non-compliance reports are fully
integrated with the other tasks. Ulysses
explained that if they were separated, it
would be extra work to reconcile all
activities relevant to resolving a non
conformance; activities such as maintenance,
purchasing, crew management etc, with the
underlying non-compliance. By using an
integrated system, the lifecycle of a non
compliance can be assembled with all the
related activities to help co-ordinate the
resolution, ensure process control, enable
statistical analysis, etc. Task Assistant blends
these tasks with all other corporate processes
to create what Ulysses believed was a
fundamental improvement in the way a
company benefited from information and
information technology.
"You need to have software that virtually
enables the user to teach him or herself how
to use the system. We tend to train the trainer
and this takes around four hours to cover all
the models available in the system," Pantelis
explained.
As mentioned, the biggest problem today
is the shortage of seafarers. The system can
help as a by-product by keeping a company
well informed of seafarer experience and
thus primed for most eventualities.
The system is continuously being updated
and Ulysses has offices worldwide that can
offer support. The company will tailor-make
the content of a system for a new client and
ship if needed, as it would obviously cause
major problems if a maintenance system
intended for a tanker turns out to be a system
meant for a containership once installed.
The idea is to start the system
configuration from a pre-configured
platform for as many of the tasks as
possible and ensure that the platform is
readily upgraded as situations, rules and
regulations, equipment on board and so
on changes.
Ulysses is used by a number of tanker
operating companies who are finding it more
and more essential to control the quality of
their operations, the company claimed. TO
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