The one-day seminar on 30 May also touched on the process of importing Shipdex data into SpecTec’s Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS), Asset Management Operating System (AMOS).
The focus of the seminar was on the important Shipdex principles and their advantages for the shipping community, for example, Common Source Data Base management and the easy import of Shipdex data into a CMMS.
AMOS, the ERP software owned and distributed by SpecTec Group, provides a ready-made tool to import Shipdex data sets.
Shipdex is a collection of international business rules developed to standardise and improve the production and exchange of technical information between equipment makers, shipyards, and shipowners. It enables equipment manufacturers and shipyards to structure, write, and deliver technical manuals in an advanced electronic and standardised format, and makes it much easier and more effective to produce and subsequently manage these manuals, compared to traditional methods using word processors.
Yu Yung-ho, professor at KMU and technical director of MEIPA, said: “Shipdex can be one of the methods to save resources and manufacture products economically, just like reusable object oriented programming methods in software engineering.”