The objective of Condition Monitoring (CM) is to create reliability information: however, unless that information is communicated effectively it can have little value.

Condition Monitoring can only make recommendations about operating and maintenance actions. The final decision on what action to take is made by maintenance planners, usually supported by Maintenance Management Software Systems, and may depend on many factors outside the scope of Condition Monitoring, such as availability of spares, resource limitations, commercial priorities of the vessel, port suitability etc.

Bringing together all of the relevant information into one central system allows maintenance managers to make concise and accurate decisions on the maintenance and future operations of their vessels.

The Mimic Condition Monitoring Software System collects, stores, displays, reports, consolidates and analyses condition assessment data from a variety of sources, and is unique in its ability to integrate into both Control & Surveillance Systems (to collect data) and Maintenance Management Systems (to report information).

• AMOS Maintenance & Planning
• Existing Control Systems
• New Build Control Systems
• Motor Condition Monitor

AMOS M&P

Integration of Mimic with AMOS provides a single point of entry for all maintenance information. Mimic is used as an integral part of the overall Maintenance Management System enabling AMOS to control all aspects of your maintenance regime so that basic level users do not have to learn large numbers of software programs.

By integrating the two systems it allows AMOS to become a fully enhanced Condition Based Maintenance System enabling planning of CBM tasks and their conduct and the results of the task to be fully incorporated into maintenance planning.

Having Mimic operating in the AMOS environment allows:

• AMOS/Mimic Automates Work Order life cycle
• View Asset Health and trending information within your AMOS environment
• Full AMOS Condition Monitoring Alert capability
• Mimic Asset information automatically populated by AMOS so no replication of data input!
• Gives transparency of information about the whole system and it’s status
• Allows condition status and information to be replicated ashore to assist root cause analysis of problems and maintenance planning.
• Reduces training, Mimic becomes an extension of the existing AMOS system.

For those operators wishing to retrieve the CM data from the ship on a daily, weekly or monthly basis Mimic offers replication to shore. Shore based engineering personnel can analyse the CM data and advise the ship’s engineers on the appropriate action to take. When linked to AMOS - work orders, based on condition information, can be tracked ashore until completion.

Existing Control Systems

Mimic has been designed to provide a simple linking interface to other software systems. This allows Mimic to link on the input side to Control & Surveillance Systems, online data recording and designated parameters (such as on line oil contamination monitoring) and on the out put side to export information for insertion into Maintenance Management Systems and replication to shore side offices.

Mimic interfaces into the ship’s alarm/monitoring or control systems to add another level of automation to your Condition Monitoring and performance monitoring program. By interfacing to the ship’s systems, temperatures, pressures, number of starts and other process parameters can be collected, analysed, calculated performance indicators derived and equipment maintenance driven automatically.

New Build Control Systems

The open architecture of Mimic allows for simple development of software codes and tools to allow integration to new build control and surveillance systems. Mimic can be incorporated into the system design stage of new build developments to ensure full and total integration. Mimic takes plant operating data from a single source and uses it to indicate safety faults and emergency conditions, support the condition monitoring regime and provide substance and information to the long term maintenance decisions.

All of this is now possible using Mimic’s unique integration tools.

MCM

Motor Condition Monitors can be linked with Mimic software to monitor, log and trend the output data of MCMs. The units themselves cannot store data, but show the current ‘real-time’ status of the motor and its driven equipment, so Mimic tracks and analyses the data output.

Mimic is the software package for viewing and displaying data from one or more MCM units. It enables the user to obtain and display data in real-time from networked devices to configure performance, save and subsequently retrieve data for display from its database.

Mimic can show the history of each parameter from a monitored motor which can be trended and used as a basis for maintenance scheduling and fault diagnosis. It can identify potential failures and recommend corrective actions by visible alarms on the host pc, email, and text messages to ensure responsible individuals are warned in the shortest possible time.

Mimic with gather and display data in real time from one or many networked MCM devices