
Onboard Maintenance (OBM) and Crew Training
A well-planned and properly executed onboard maintenance (OBM) program significantly extends vessel lifespan and minimizes repair costs during dry-docking or lay-up periods. IMS Coating Experts conduct OBM seminars for ship staff, offering systematic training on planning, surface preparation, and safe, effective paint application. These programs aim to enhance crew capabilities, ensure coating performance, and deliver long-term corrosion protection for ship structures.
Enhancing Onboard Maintenance through Crew Training
Proper onboard coating maintenance is essential for protecting ship structures, enhancing structural integrity and sustainability, and minimizing repair costs during dry-docking or lay-up periods. However, maintenance is often performed at short notice without proper planning, resulting in inadequate coating performance that requires frequent, costly repeated repairs. IMS coating experts provide systematic training for ship crews, improving maintenance quality and cost-efficiency through practical knowledge, planning strategies, and technical guidance, ensuring long-term protection and reducing unnecessary repair cycles.
OBM and Crew Training
For effective onboard coating maintenance, it is essential to educate the ship’s crew and provide practical training on planning maintenance work, ensuring safe and efficient paint application, and achieving long-term corrosion protection for steel structures.
IMS coating experts, under the instruction of vessel owners or managers, can organize dedicated seminars for ship staff to introduce a systematic onboard coating maintenance program, focusing on the following key areas:
- The paint type/generic, its characteristics, and related technical information
- Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) practices
- Inspection techniques and maintenance planning
- Surface preparation standards and methods
- Paint preparation procedures
- Correct application techniques
- Paint Locker assessment, stock management and paint inventory control
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