Benefits
Onboard provides many benefits for operations both onshore and onboard, these include:
- Easily deployable, manageable and cost effective system that is equally suitable as a standalone application, or interfaced with shore side systems, such as MAPS
- Using the latest web based technologies and is hosted using the very familiar Internet Explorer browser application
- Facilitates the creation of ship ‘best practice’ business processes
- Increases information transparency, consistency and accuracy between shore side schedulers and the vessel
- Enhances an organisations auditing capabilities
- Reduced ship administrative burdens for senior crew, giving easy access to timesheets, crew details, appraisals, travel documentation and certification data
- Facilitates compliance through management of Onboard qualifications and certifications
- Quick access to crew and vessel information helping informed decision making
- Increased information security and reliability, while reducing duplicate information
- Creates a shared source of knowledge onboard the vessel
- Training times and costs are minimised thanks to the simple- to-use graphical user interface (GUI)
- Fast and simple installation and implementation
- Small footprint onboard
- Creates efficiencies in vessel work flows
- Automated warnings show crew any issues surrounding compliance oversights
- Historic and future information can be viewed, creating the ability to pro-actively manage crew
- Flexible system that can adapt to unforeseen events
- Simplifies compliance with the IMO working hours legislation
