Reply 20 of 22, by gdjacobs
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wrote:That depends completely on the ship. Here it's definitely the automation system. We had this wonderful old ABB Selma system (which btw was a really cool modular 8086 system (and yes, I kept the CPU and FPU when it was scrapped 😁)), but they stopped making spare parts, so we had to retrofit a modern system, that really sucks. On my last ship it was the licence built Wärtsilä 46 main engines, they had quite a lot of material problems.
What sends them to Alang is usually the 25 year classification. Before that, they are classed according to the rules that were in effect when the ship was built. At the 25 year classification, they have to comply to the same rules as a newly built ship. It's usually far too expensive to rebuild/retrofit a ship which doesn't have all that many years of lifetime left anyways according to that.
I understand that most vessels have extensive spares in storage. For everyday physical repairs, what's the rough breakdown between high level (LRU swap) and low level (fabricate new part / rig up bypass) repairs?
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