Impact of new technology on shipping

operations
- Workshop Danaos Auditorium, Piraeus, Greece May 13th

FLAGSHIP SP A2

Key performance indicators for technical

operation
MARINTEK - Brage Mo, senior research engineer
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Background
The use of key performance indicators (KPI) has
become a recognised practice in measuring
performance
The cargo owners and legislation bodies are
increasingly focusing on documented proactive
operation
Efficiency
Environmentally
Safety

Aggregated performance models of ships need to

be made by transparent and consistent assessments
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of their technical condition

TCI definition
The TCI, the Technical Condition Index, is defined as follows:
The Technical Condition Index, denoted TCI, is defined as the degree of
degradation relative to the design condition.
The TCI can apply to equipment, a system, a whole ship or a fleet of ships. It
may take values between a minimum and a maximum value, where the
maximum value describes the design condition [e.g. sea trial condition],
TCI=100, and the minimum value describes the state of total degradation,
TCI=0.
The state of total degradation is the condition so unsatisfactory that the
equipment, system or ship is prevented from carrying out its primary function.

It is important to distinguish between the TCI and the KPI. The KPI are
financial and non-financial metrics used to help an organization define
and measure progress toward organizational goals [6]. In some
instances the KPI and TCI can be the same thing, i.e. if one uses
fuels cost as a KPI, this will be the same as the TCI fuel consumption.
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Ship registrations decision support

Efficiency

Degradation

Balance

Registrations of measurements

TCIs

Actions

Consultancy

Evaluations and actions in technical issues

Technical performance

Action
Attention
OK

Ship

Superintendent

Fleet Mgr.

Shore also follow-up TCIs

AGGREGATED
SHIP FLEET INDEX (TCIs)

Ship 1

w1/Tw

w2/Tw

w3/Tw

Mean

Mean

Mean

Main Engine
Performance

Aux Engine
Performance

Thruster
Performance

TCI Specification
AE Performance model
1 Aux. engine performance

WSum

10 x

1.1 Efficiency

10 x

1.2 Balance

10 x

1.3 Degradation

TCI Specification
AE Performance model

From reference
-30.0 %
-15.0 %
-11.3 %
-7.5 %
7.5 %
11.3 %
15.0 %
25.0 %

Scavenging air receiver pressure [bar]

Technical Condition
Index (TCI)

Index function
Value Index
1.02
0
1.23
80
1.29
90
1.34
100
1.56
100
1.61
90
1.67
80
1.81
0

120
100
80
60
40
20
0
0.80

1.10

1.40

1.70

2.00

User function

TCI Specification
AE Performance model
M10. Pscav Receiver
Ideal performance
n

BHPM _ meas

BHP (i )
i 1

meas

Engine load
Scav_air_press
BHP
Power

75
1.45
178.3
131.2

100
2.12
237.7
174.8

[%]
[bar]
[BHP]
[kW]

Scavenging air pressure [bar]

131.17
131.17

2.50
scav. air pressure

Reference value:
1.45
0
1.45
100

50
0.78
119.0
87.5

2.00
1.50
1.00
0.50
80.0

100.0

120.0

140.0

160.0

180.0

Power [kW]

Calculated value:

K Pscav

Pscav2 Pscav1
Power2 Power1

K_scav =

0.0153

Pscavcorr Pscavmeas K Pscav Powerref PowerM _ meas (TEng _ room _ meas 25) 0, 002856 Pscavmeas

Example
FLEET PERFORMANCE
A holistic view that assesses units
Efficiency
Degradation
Balance
{Balance - comparing units expected to have
equal performance}

A holistic view that assesses

Several Fleets (A, B, C, D,..)
with Ships (A1, A2,..,B1,..)
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Example
SELECTING CATEGORY of PERFORMANCE
Reducing holistic view of fleets to e.g.
Efficiency
Stakeholders interests defines
Selection of what to be presented, e.g.
Efficiency
SFOC (Specific Fuel Oil Consumption)
Speed / Fuel oil Consumption

New data/ assessments {SP A1, SP B1?}

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Implementation Procedure
Develop forms
Input ship static data
Send forms to ship
Install forms
Input measure data
Validate
Send xml data
Use email

Receive xml/email
Validate
Store data
Analyze
Produce report
Send report to ship
Receive report
Do maintenance

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ME Registrations (Trial/ Ideal)

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Processing ME sea-trial data

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Processing of operational data

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TCI results ME

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TCI results ME efficiency

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Analysis to Support Ship

for ME opt. (automated)

Attention

Action

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AE Registrations (Trial/ Ideal)

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Processing AE Trial data

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Implement TCI results into

business processes
Stakeholders
Owners/ managers of ships
Manufacturers of equipment
Class
Shipyards

TCI
Results

Stakeholders Process

Beneficial use
(Interest)

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Business process revision

Business processes might be different
within similar businesses
Stakeholders know best how TCI results fit
into their business processes
Consequently, stakeholders identify/
describe/ illustrate/ exemplify how the results
fit into their organisations processes
Stakeholders Process

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Thank you for your attention!

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