Learning Quality Management for Ships’ Upkeep and Repair Environment

Abstract

Ships Quality Management (QM) in a naval disciplined repair environment is under significant demands. The purpose of this paper is to emphasise the requirement for the establishment of quality management. Quality management is essential to support operations, work preparation and formulation, material replenishment, repairs and trial processes to enhance productivity and availability. Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Control (QC) encompassing Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM), Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) and Failure Modes, Effectiveness and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) are required to monitor Preventive and Corrective Maintenance with the aim of heading towards ISO. The QA and QC processes should be in line with a complete survey, Pre Upkeep Machinery Assessments (PUMA), Dynamic Machinery Trials (DMT) to predict and formulate the intended refurbishment followed by post upkeep standard trials. The whole process can be boosted when health and safety are integrated. The research instrument was based on the dedicated constructs to predict the 'mindsets/opinions' of employees in their perceptions of future improvement. The variables-hypotheses were inferentially analyzed (correlated and regressed). They were found to be positively related and significantly contributed to the ships' upkeep support performance. The implication of this study is to understand the strength of the research framework and to make proposals for the enhancement of quality management in line with the variables.

Developing ships’ repair OI and OP in the Omani dockyard: co-association of proficiency, efficiency and concentration in the knowledge environment

“…Proficiency and innovation occur in single-and doubleloop learning teams or in committees with each one dedicated to certain responsibilities or problem solving techniques (Al-Raqadi et al 2016;Cook 1997). Application of reliability maintenance models in a dockyard ships' repair environment is necessary to integrate logistics and engineering management and to solve problems (Al-Raqadi et al 2015;Blanchard 1986;Conachey et al 2008;Koochaki et al 2011;Lazakis et al 2010;Moubray 1991;Oke and Charles-Owaba 2006). This has to be supported with a modern method of enhancing the end product performance.…”

“…It is in these areas that the dockyard repair organisation tends to get it wrong, leading to unnecessary resource expenditure when making difficult corrections. Performance can therefore be improved by developing standards related to the reliability, availability and maintainability of machinery, structures, equipment and on-board systems to enhance operational time at sea (Al-Raqadi et al 2015;Cooke 1955;DeWitt 1991;Koochaki et al 2011;Lazakis et al 2010). The ''availability as a product of system reliability and maintainability'' (Raper 1970, p. 164) has to be treated with maximum effort.…”

“…The maintenance processes require Pre Upkeep Machinery Assessments (PUMA) and Dynamic Machinery Trial (DMT) to understand the intended maintenance such as overhaul and refurbishment. These are followed by Setting to Work (STW), a Harbour Acceptance Trial (HAT) and a Sea Acceptance Trial (SAT) (Al-Raqadi et al 2015). The work packages compilation have to be developed in several stages for future improvement or changes.…”