- Marine Software Limited
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Marine Software Ltd Type Private Industry Computer software Founded 1991 Headquarters Aylesham
Kent CT3 3AJ
UKProducts Marine computer software, Employees 13 Website www.marinesoftware.co.uk Marine Software is a Limited Company[1] that develops and supplies 'off the shelf' software to the Marine and shore side industries. The company is located in Aylesham, Kent, United Kingdom. The software runs on Microsoft Windows Operating Systems. The software can be used for vessels ranging from ROV's, Yachts, Chain Link Ferries, Tugs, PSV's, Fast Craft, Ferries, Container Vessels, all the way up to an including VLCC's. There are approximately 177,000[2] ships worldwide. Marine Software has supplied approximately 0.6% of these vessels all over the world.
Digital Ship produced a report in 2004[3] of 24 software companies world wide providing software solutions for ship's technical management software.
Contents
Products
Vessel Based Software
Software can run locally on a ship's network or stand alone computer. This enables the vessel to carry out management functions without the need for 24x7 connectivity to shore side servers.
- Marine Planned Maintenance - Planned Maintenance also known as 'GENPMS' or 'PMS'. The 'Full' system is DNV 'Type Approved'
- Marine Storekeeper - Inventory control
- Marine Purchasing System - Purchasing and budgeting for technical purchasing requirements
- Marine Project Manager - Dry-Dock or Refit planning, budgeting, tendering, tracking and completion reports
- Marine Safety Manager - safety documentation such as Risk Assessments, Safe systems of work, environmental concerns, Non-Conformities and Accident reports
- Marine Document Manager - manage Documents and Forms
- Marine Safety & Document Manager - Safety and Document management in one single application
Shore side based software
Shore side software is intended for technical management offices that manage one or more vessels. The vessel based software can exchange data with the shore side system to give management oversight of the vessel based system.
- Office Planned Maintenance - Fleet Maintenance overview and reporting.
- Office Storekeeper - Fleet inventory overview
- Office Purchasing System - Office based purchasing processes for the fleet
- Office Project Manager - Projects from all Superintendent's systems can be stored here as well as running projects.
- Office Safety Manager - Company wide safety documents stored here and circulated to the fleet.
- Office Document Manager - Company wide ISM documents and forms stored here and circulated to the fleet.
- Office Safety & Document Manager - Company wide safety and ISM documents stored here and circulated to the fleet.
References
- ^ Companies House Record accessed February 8 2011
- ^ IHS Global Limited - World Register of Ships accessed February 9 2011
- ^ Digital Ship - Best Practice in Shipmanagement Software November 2004
External links
- Marine Software Limited - Official website
- Digital Ship - Best Practice in Shipmanagement Software November 2004
- Companies House Entry
- DNV has 23 Companies World Wide that has 'Planned Maintenance System' Type approved Software. This list is contained here List of M-PMS approved vendors. Other Classification societies also run similar schemes for approved maintenance software.
- Mentioned as a vendor in D2.2.2.3: Integrated fleet management ICT systems by D Morgan and P Katsoulakos, June 29 2010 (produced under a SKEMA study for the European Commission)
- A brighthub article written about PMS software in general.
Categories:- Software companies of the United Kingdom
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