The Planned Maintenance Scheme (PMS) is a
detailed periodic maintenance program for machinery (including electrical
equipment), formulated by the ship owner, according to the relevant
requirements of classification rules and the equipment manufacturer’s
instructions. Ship machinery remains in a good technical condition as a result
to the program’s implementation and enforcement on board. This periodic
maintenance program management for ship machinery is called planned maintenance
scheme. PMS is a kind of survey which may be regarded as an alternative to the
special machinery survey or the continuous machinery survey (CMS) and the
survey items are to cover those of related special survey or continuous survey.
PMS is applied by the ship owner, and approved by CCS.
Scope of application:
For ships with machinery notation ‘PMS’;
As an alternative pattern for machinery
special survey or CMS, the test items of PMS should cover those of the special
survey or CMS replaced by it;
If ships implement PMS, other surveys about periodic
class maintenance survey items stipulated in the rules can’t be changed and
canceled, such as the annual survey, intermediate survey, boiler survey, tail
shaft and propeller shaft survey.
Main bases:
CCS Guidelines
for survey of planned maintenance scheme (PMS) for machinery (Chapter 5,
Appendix 16 of Part I of the CCS Rules
for Classification of Sea-going Steel Ships);
CCS Approval
procedures for shipping companies implementing ship machinery planned
maintenance scheme (WPAS702);
Ship
maintenance scheme (GB/T 16558);
Mechanical and electrical equipment
manufacturer’s instructions.
Initial recognition: In case of first application for the
implementation of PMS survey, ship owner or management company may submit a
written application to CCS headquarters or survey unit, and also submit the
following information:
Related jobs (responsibility) and PMS
workflows of the company, including organization chart identifying related
posts;
PMS document preparation process;
PMS device identification process (coding
system);
Computer management programs and software for
PMS;
Preventive maintenance program for PMS
equipment (requirements of equipment maintenance);
Lists and specifications of condition
monitoring equipment (if any);
Baseline data of condition monitoring
equipment (if any);
Maintenance plan of PMS equipment (the number
of hours for maintenance cycle should be indicated in the plan for equipment
taking timed testing);
PMS equipment list;
After the above information passes the audit,
a site audit should be implemented for the company, and if it passes the audit,
CCS will issue a “Certificate of approval of company implementing PMS”, with
validity not more than five years from completion date, and CCS may arrange for
a ship initial audit.
Annual audit:
Company should submit the annual report
within three months before or after the anniversary date of the validity of the
PMS approval certificate, and CCS headquarters will arrange for an audit to
confirm:
The running state of planned maintenance on all
of the ships implementing PMS which belong to the company is normal and
effective;
The breakdown/malfunction records and cause
analysis of mechanical and electrical equipment of the ship (if any);
The PMS manager of the company is familiar
with the programs and software; and
The software update or version change has
been approved (if applicable).
If the company passes the audit, CCS
will sign the certificate.
Recertification audit:
Companies should apply three months before
the expiry of the PMS approval certificate, and CCS headquarters will arrange
for an audit. The submitted information and the audit requirements are the same
as the initial recognition.
After the company passes the audit, CCS
headquarters will continue issuing a “Certificate of approval of company
implementing PMS”, with a validity period no more than five years.
Additional audit: An additional audit is necessary in any
of the following cases:
when the management structure or procedure of
PMS of the shipping company changes; or
when the PMS software is modified or its
version changes and upgrades.
For more details, please contact us:
Tel.: 0086-10-58113599
E-mail: cdwork@ccs.org.cn
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