Abstract
Maintenance is one of the core technical aspects on board ships, which is required for the ready availability, reliability, and efficiency of machinery equipment. As machinery systems are critical for merchant ships, inadequate maintenance operations lead to serious consequences, including total loss of the vessel. The most commonly used maintenance approach on board a ship is a planned maintenance schedule (PMS). Since a PMS is highly dependent on human effort, human reliability comes into force as an important issue. However, the latest maintenance approaches, such as maintenance 4.0, focus on reducing the human workload in maintenance operations. Therefore, this study investigates the potential benefits of maintenance 4.0 in proportion to the aspects of human reliability. It examines a diesel generator maintenance operation. The shipboard operation human reliability analysis approach is utilized to conduct an empirical human reliability analysis for classic PMS, and, additionally, scenario-based maintenance 4.0 environments. Human error probability (HEP) values are calculated separately and a detailed comparison is provided. As a consequence, the overall HEP is dramatically reduced through the use of maintenance 4.0 (from 6.78E−01 to 1.17E−01).
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 473-487 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Cognition, Technology and Work |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Aug 2020 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2019, Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature.
Funding
This article is produced from initial stages of PhD thesis research entitled “A human reliability assessment to marine auxiliary machinery maintenance operations under ship PMS and maintenance 4.0 concepts”, which has been executed in a PhD Program in Maritime Transportation Engineering of the Istanbul Technical University Graduate School of Science, Engineering and Technology. The authors are also grateful to operation managers and the shipboard personnel of STATU Shipping Company for their support of field studies on board ships.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| Istanbul Technical University Graduate School of Science, Engineering and Technology |
Keywords
- Human error
- Maintenance 4.0
- Maintenance operations
- Ship maintenance
- Ship PMS