Task Assistant® Central Components Library
Ulysses Master Setup
Ulysses Master or Central Components Library and vessel component setups constitute one system that reflects the real world of how machines are built and how they are maintained. And ensures the data integrity to support your decisions associated with these activities. Fleetwide Asset Management, definitely, requires a central components library.
Task Assistant® Central Components Library
What is the Task Assistant® Central Components Library? It is a database of ships’ technical components. Each component with its spare parts, maintenance information and full history, stored centrally and linked to common core descriptions. Instances of components per ship are derived from the Central Library while retaining the core commonality of identifications. New information from ship’s duty and requisitions is completed locally but also available centrally.
A powerful asset management tool
Task Assistant® Central Components Library is a powerful asset management tool. Notably because a system with a central components library guarantees unified data and offers analytics you can trust. And favours statistical comparisons of machinery across the fleet. It also offers overviews of component maintenance and procurement, which makes it very powerful in optimising components’ life-cycle and cost control.
Tried and mature
Ulysses Master Setup, first released 22 years ago, is a tried and mature solution. It is designed around the understanding that before becoming part of a ship and fleet, machines are meaningful functional components.
Clearly, machines are built in factories for many ships and industry applications.
Therefore, machines exist as meaningful functional components outside any particular ship. And behave in much the same way, regardless of where they are installed. Although the conditions under which they work may differ.
So, it makes sense to build software that models the world of machinery in a way that acknowledges the commonalities of machines, regardless of which ship they are in; and also captures machine ship duty, which is the live ship specific data that will affect the decisions about the machines.
It resolves duplification of data
The Central Components Library resolves duplication of data. This is in contrast to the common practice of defining each component individually for each ship. That is, introducing different identifications for the same component on different ships. When in fact they are the same machines with just the serial number differing.
Consider also that components are originally sourced from the same manufacturers, who define the ways in which we identify parts and perform procurement. The natural approach, then, is to retain unified information for the same machinery and parts across the fleet. To do asset management well, enterprises require a centralised index of ships’ technical components.
Data integity
No matter where and how diversely data propagates, with Task Assistant® Central Component Library, data integrity persists. Data provenance is retained. And so is data unification. Unified data makes for rich samples on which to run statistics. And to make inferences about the performance of a ship or a whole fleet.
Performance
“Asset management is not maintenance management. Asset management is you taking your data and looking into the whole lifecycle: from design, building, operation and decommissioning”
