FACTORS DETERMINING PMS
- The plan must be carefully thought out, well controlled, and an efficient recording system must be kept up to date.
- Provisions should be made for spare part replacements due to wear and tear maintenance. There should also be a method for ordering spares as soon as replacement items are used.
- The plan should include the availability of appropriate equipment for breakdown maintenance due to unforeseen circumstances.
- Manufactures advice should be complied with and all manufactures maintenance logs should be completed.
- Dry-docking and repair period should be integrated with the plan.
- The plan should be constructed so that the appropriate equipment is bought up to optimum condition for statutory and classifications surveys.
- The maintenance of safety equipment and emergency team training should be integrated with the overall maintenance plan.
- The length of voyages, routes and trades that the vessel is involved in must be considered.
- The plan must be flexible so that changes of orders or cargoes do not upset it unduly
- The plan must be adaptable to various weather conditions.
- SHORT TERM MAINTENANCE WEEKLY INSPECTION AND GREASING (WHEN POSSIBLE) AS PER PMS
- Oil baths, if any, in winches and windlasses
- Wheels on steel hatch covers
- Door hinges on mast houses
- Ventilation system flaps and ventilators
- Cleats on external weathertight doors
- Anchor securing arrangements
- Booby hatches to cargo holds
- Sounding and air pipes
- Fairleads, rollers
- Derrick heels
- Winches and windlasses
Fortnightly inspection and greasing as per PMS
- Accommodation ladder and gangway
- Lifeboat falls and blocks
- Davit pivot points
- Fire hydrants and monitors
- Fire hose box hinges
- Quick release gear on bridge wing life buoys
- All life buoys
- Life raft securing arrangements
- Securing bolts on international shore connection
- Steel hatch cross joints and quick acting cleats
- Hatch gypsy drive wheels and followers
- Hatch contractor panel fuses, electric cables and connections, motor heaters
- All external butterfly nuts
- All external electric cables and deck lighting arrangements
Monthly inspection and greasing as per PMS where necessary
- Life boat falls for broken strands
- Co2 cylinders in gang release system
- Fire detection systems
- Breathing apparatus and associated equipment
- Ladders on masts and ventilation posts
- Radar mast rigging
- Fire gauze
- Freeing ports
- Scuppers
- Hatchway non return valves
- Ship side guard rails
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LONG TERM MAINTENANCE THREE MONTHLY INSPECTION AND/OR OVERHAUL AS PER PMS
- All cargo gear
- Navigation light connections
- Hold ventilation systems
Six monthly inspection and/or overhaul as per PMS
- Cargo winches
- Strip all mooring rollers
- Fresh water tanks
- All running gear, strip blocks and derricks
- Cofferdams and void spaces
- Forepeak and after peak
- Remove ventilator cowls and grease the coaming test dampers flaps and locking screws
- Hold equipment such as spar ceiling, limber boards, double bottoms, manholes, wells bilge’s strum boxes .
Yearly inspection as per PMS
- De rust and repaint derricks
- End for end lifeboat falls
- Watertight seals on hatchways
- Loosen spare anchor securing bolts, lubricate all anchor parts and re-secure
- Rotational cleaning and painting of store rooms, alleyways, cabins and mess rooms
- Strip the windlass and aft mooring winch
- Standing rigging
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OPERATIONAL MAINTENANCE TO BE CARRIED OUT WHEN NECESSARY
- Anchor cable marking
- Check mooring ropes and wires before and after use
- All gantlines before being used on stages
- Pilot ladder and hoists, gangways, accommodation ladders and associated equipment before and after use
- Check anchor and cables stowed properly
- Test fire fighting appliance before entering port
- Test manual and emergency steering arrangements before entering coastal waters.
- Cargo Securing arrangements.
- All cargo gears and hatch closing arrangements before and after use .
- Check hydraulic oil in any system.
- Fumigate and spray holds as necessary.
