Condition monitoring boosts lifesaving equipment maintenance

摘要

The launch of LifeCraft this year opens up a very different maintenance programme for operators who choose this system, due to the hybrid system's unique features. Its features mean that, as Viking Life-Saving Equipment senior vice president passenger division Niels Fraende says, its maintenance schedule will be "much more predictable". As it is stored in a container, conditions are controlled. Mr Fraende says "Conditions like salt content and humidity are controlled, and the level of humidity is kept underneath corrosion level. In that way we are getting a system that is safer and not the same as other types of equipment such as davits and lifeboats that are exposed to the environment.